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Torn Images Teach Kids How to Build A Healthy Self-Concept
One of the lessons in our current science unit, 'Taking Care of Yourself' is about self concept — what it is, how we build it up and how we tear it down. ...
Students Make Friend Want-Ads
Lesson 2 of our science unit 'What Am I Worth' gives young people advice on what to look for when choosing friends. After reviewing the lesson I asked my students ...
Sharing Resources to Dissect Fish
For one of our science lessons this week I took both of the sixth grade classes from my school to our next door neighbor, Andrews Academy. The biology teacher there ...
Paper Bag Fish Combines Science and Art
'Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming!' Who hasn't heard those words or doesn't love watching the adventure of a certain orange clown fish and forgetful blue damsel, Dora, from Finding ...
Teach Scientific Classification Using Buttons
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species! How does one even start to explain to students how scientists classify living things and why scientists would even want to?
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Create 3D Animal Cells with Play Doh
This week I used an idea I found on the Internet to help students remember and understand the functions of different parts of animal cells. We had already created diagrammed posters during ...