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Sun Protection Lesson Plan: Health and Safety

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*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Sun Protection Lesson Plan.  This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Sun Protection. Its content and activities are intended to educate student...

Ecosystems Lesson Plan: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

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*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Ecosystems Lesson Plan. This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Ecosystems, and supports students’ understanding that organisms are dependent on...

Investigate Venomous Marine Snails Lesson Plan: BioDive Game

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Click to download lesson plans for the game BioDive, an immersive virtual reality experience, adaptable for grades 5-9.  The game challenges students to practice observation and documentation as...

Birds Lesson Plan

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This lesson plan accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Birds, and can be completed over several class periods. See suggested times for each section.   OBJECTIVES Students will: Activate prior know...

Relative Dating Lesson Plan

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This lesson plan accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Relative Dating, and can be completed over several class periods. See suggested times for each section.   OBJECTIVES Students will: Activa...

Nutrient System and Sustainability Lesson Plan: Lakeland Game

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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 7-12, students play Lakeland, a game that introduces them to the complex relationship between farming, soil nutrition, and lake pollution. In the game, studen...

Ecosystem Exploration Lesson Plan: BeastBox

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This lesson plan–developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s K-12 Program–is adaptable for grades 3-8 and features BeastBox, a game that explores how animals use sound to interact with each other wi...

BeastBox Activity Guide

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Download this Activity Guide, developed by our partner The Cornell Lab K-12,  for engaging students with BeastBox while addressing key concepts such as animal communication, animal behavior, and ecosy...

Menstrual Cycle Lesson Plan: Make a Movie

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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, invites students to explore BrainPOP resources to learn about the menstrual cycle. After identifying the sequence of stages of the menstrual cycle, student...

Asexual Reproduction Lesson Plan: Charades

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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, students watch the BrainPOP movie Asexual Reproduction to investigate how some living things come from  a single organism, and inherit the genes of that ...