Get Active and Healthy This School Year!
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month and check out these bilingual Together Counts resources - including lesson plans, family activities, and more - available in English and Spanish!
Get Your Students Moving!
The American Heart Association and the National Football League, working with Discovery Education, have joined forces to encourage physically active lifestyles in schools and homes nationwide. View lessons, activities, and videos for in school or at home use today!
Start With Hello
The simple act of saying hello can have tremendous impact with letting young people know they are not alone and are valued. Start With Hello works to create connectedness and community by minimizing social isolation, marginalization and rejection, before an individual chooses to hurt them self or others.
See 10 Young Scientist Serve Up Some Serious STEM Inspiration
Tune in live to watch 10 national finalists compete for $25,000 and the title of America’s Top Young Scientist, live from the 3M Innovation Center on Tuesday, October 18th at 11am EST.
Miss the #EggFarmVFT?
Head back to Hertzfeld Poultry Farm where students will explore sustainability on a working egg farm and learn how to reduce their carbon footprint!
Uncovering Fossils
Q: Where can the world’s oldest hominid fossils be found?
A: 3.5 million-year-old fossils can be found in South Africa. Uncover history with Discovery Student Adventures.
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DOGGIES
The dog named Jam is heavier than the dog named Jelly.
Copper weighs more than Brandy but less than Pumpkin.
Brandy weighs more than Jelly.
Pumpkin weighs less than Jam.
List the dogs in the order of their weights, starting with the heaviest.
vocabulary matching
ANIMAL CLASSES
Capture your students' attention and get them ready to learn with these worksheets. Try this vocabulary matching worksheet on the subject of animal classes with words such as "reptile", "extinction" and "queen". Have your students match the word to the definition.
Weather Maps
Students will:
- Understand basic information about weather
- Learn about different types of weather maps
- Create and present national weather maps showing different conditions
Technology at Work
Students will:
- Technology is defined as “any invention, including tools, machines, materials, techniques, and sources of power, that makes people’s work easier.”
- The history of technology really begins in prehistoric times.
Create Your Own Native American Board Game
Students will:
- discuss how games reflect a culture’s beliefs, priorities, and aspects of everyday life;
- learn about a few games and toys of Native American children; and
- analyze basic elements of a selected Native American tribe in order to apply them to the creation of an original board game that can be played by today’s children.
Math in Everyday Life
Students will:
- Discuss how to solve word problems involving time and money
- Work as a class to solve word problems focusing on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions
- Work with a partner to make up their own word problems
Reading Strategies
Students will:
- Learn that every story has a main idea and supporting details.
- Find the main idea and several supporting details in a news story.
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