In this lesson, students will compare the forces of pushing and pulling. Students will also recognize that objects at rest will not move unless a force is applied to them.
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In this lesson, students will develop an awareness of what is required for survival. Students will become aware of different habitats.
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In this lesson, students explore what an imaginary animal needs to survive, and they decide if it could live on their playground. Then the students look at the needs of real animals that may live in their schoolyard.
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Students explore how our neighborhood changes over time. Using one of the children's books recommended in the resources list, students will use ideas gathered from their own classroom windows to view these architectural and seasonal changes over time.
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In this lesson, students learn that every family has traditions they participate in throughout the year.
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Students will engage in observation and interaction with sound to better understand vibrations, volume and pitch, and the different mediums that sound can travel through.
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Students will investigate the processes of the water cycle as a way to understand how heating and cooling can cause matter to change phase.
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This is the seventh lesson in the Unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). Students learn how seasonal weather patterns affect temperature and their lives through concrete, hands-on activities. Students will also read the book Apples, Apples, Apples by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace.
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Compares life cycles of several species
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
In this activity students identify the different relationships that can be found in a community and create a class Community ABC Book.
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In this lesson, students will learn about Celia Cruz and the use of objects to discuss people. They will understand how artifacts can help us understand people in the past.
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Students will learn more about a first responder or group of first responders in their community. They will then design and create a certificate to honor that individual or group.
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Second grade students in Michigan continue their integrative approach to social studies by focusing in on the local community. Students are introduced to a social environment larger than their immediate surroundings.
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In this lesson, students demonstrate the ability to use the compass rose to indicate directions, create and use map symbols, create a map of a familiar area, and demonstrate how to use a map legend.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will learn about the laws of motion and force and demonstrate how difference in the amount of force causes changes in speed or direction of objects.
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Water covers 71% of the earth?s surface?does it get the instructional time it deserves in your busy curriculum? Students wade right in to the study of bodies of water as they read and discuss science trade books and work together to develop Readers Theater scripts based on selected titles.
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Students will learn the relative sizes of the planets in the solar system, as well as Pluto, asteroids, and comets, by using a scale model. They will learn that different solar system bodies are made of different materials and will consider different ways to classify them.
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In this activity, students investigate how effective different mediums are for sowing seeds. Students will make a prediction as to which materials the seeds will germinate in and determine how to make this a fair test.
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In this short unit, students are introduced to the three forms of matter by using their observation skills and recording properties of various common examples of matter. Students will work in pairs and small groups to observe, discuss, and record properties of solids, liquids, and gases. A poem about matter and a diagram of solid, liquid, and gas are included with the lesson.
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In this lesson, students will identify and sort plant parts through hands-on activities and group discussions and then work with magnifying lenses and tape measures to document their observations on a student sheet.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
