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Kansas Day- Flint Hills Map Program

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Students examine and form conjectures regarding connections between ecosystem elements - plants, animals, weather, etc., exploring food chains, food webs, dependence of organisms, interactions and dynamics in ecosystems. Discovery, Hills, Food Web, Weather, Food Chain, Food Webs, Food Chains, Connection, Exploring

Everything Is Connected | Flint Hills Discovery Center, KS

Students examine and form conjectures regarding connections between ecosystem elements - plants, animals, weather, etc., exploring food chains, food webs, dependence of organisms, interactions and dynamics in ecosystems.

Students read and see photos/videos about frog development and stages. Includes “Sing Like a Frog” activity with video clips of common frogs calling. Also “Name That Frog,” and “Virtual Froggie” activities. Frogs, Videos, Common Frog, Frog Activities, Frog, Activities, Common, Student Reading

Frog Activities

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Students read and see photos/videos about frog development and stages. Includes “Sing Like a Frog” activity with video clips of common frogs calling. Also “Name That Frog,” and “Virtual Froggie” activities.

7th grade students use proportional relationships to calculate the percent of increase in weight for a calf pastured on burned pasture and unburned pasture. Olinda, Eastleigh, Farm Life, Farm, Framingham, Livestock, Cattle, Funny Farm, Oxen

7th grade students use proportional relationships to calculate the percent of increase in weight for a calf pastured on burned pasture and unburned pasture.

Students synthesize one of the 4 main Earth Cycles represented in the Exhibit, by creating a comic strip sequence of 6 features of the cycle, using comic/graphic art conventions of panel, caption, speech balloons, etc. Earth Science, Nature, Ocean, Watersheds, Water Management, Water Cycle, World Geography, Hydrological Cycle, Nasa Earth

Water Management

World Geography

Hydrological Cycle

Illustrating FH Earth Cycles: 6-Panel ComicStrip

Students synthesize one of the 4 main Earth Cycles represented in the Exhibit, by creating a comic strip sequence of 6 features of the cycle, using comic/graphic art conventions of panel, caption, speech balloons, etc.

Google Slides Basic Kansas Day OPEN & GO for K-5 Teacher Resources, Teachers, Kansas Day, Kansas, Map, Happy, Classroom, Google Slides, Facts

Teacher Resources

Happy Kansas Day

Google Slides Basic Kansas Day OPEN & GO for K-5

Students will read nonfiction text, discuss and brainstorm prairie facts, then write an informative summary about what they learned.(map and text related) Nonfiction Texts, Nonfiction, Summary, Discuss, Students, Brainstorm

Nonfiction Texts

Students will read nonfiction text, discuss and brainstorm prairie facts, then write an informative summary about what they learned.(map and text related)

PDF of book of 37 Lesson Plans for elementary/middle school level. Fun and informative activities about all aspects of prairie Middle School, Lesson Plans, Learning, Elementary Lesson Plans, Lesson, Elementary Teacher, Elementary, School Levels

Elementary Lesson Plans

Elementary Teacher

PDF of book of 37 Lesson Plans for elementary/middle school level. Fun and informative activities about all aspects of prairie

Students learn about seasons and cycles by going to the same place in an outdoor natural area (ideally) four times during the year and using all their senses to observe what is happening in nature. Outdoor, Art, Senses, Seasons, Waldorf Curriculum, Outdoor Art, Student Learning

Waldorf Curriculum

Student Learning

Seasonal Wheelscape - Outdoor Art Journal

Students learn about seasons and cycles by going to the same place in an outdoor natural area (ideally) four times during the year and using all their senses to observe what is happening in nature.

A whole thematic unit about the ecological region of the flint hills! Oklahoma, Flint Hills, Flint, Nebraska, Rock Cycle, Region

Flint Hills Map Exhibit Unit | Flint Hills Discovery Center, KS

A whole thematic unit about the ecological region of the flint hills!

Kansas Ag in Classroom lesson. 30 min. After studying the prairie biome and learning how beautiful and alive the Kansas landscape is, students will write a poem about the prairie using similes and creative descriptions Writing, Biomes, Writing Poems, How Beautiful

Kansas Ag in Classroom lesson. 30 min. After studying the prairie biome and learning how beautiful and alive the Kansas landscape is, students will write a poem about the prairie using similes and creative descriptions

FREE book for educators "Autumn Calf" contact the Konza Prairie http://keep.konza.k-state.edu/ Children, Books, Fiction, Book Activities, Species, Mammals

Book Activities

Konza Environmental Education Program

FREE book for educators "Autumn Calf" contact the Konza Prairie http://keep.konza.k-state.edu/

A whole list of wonderful, open-ended, cross-curricular projects about Kansas Day and the Flint Hills. Could be use for speaking and listening, persuasive writing, or even a thematic unit about Kansas Persuasive Writing, Cross Curricular, Thematic Units, Open Ended, Projects, Subjects

Persuasive Writing

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Flint Hills Multi-Subject Activities | Flint Hills Discovery Center, KS

A whole list of wonderful, open-ended, cross-curricular projects about Kansas Day and the Flint Hills. Could be use for speaking and listening, persuasive writing, or even a thematic unit about Kansas

Raw climate and stream outflow data is collected, graphed and analyzed by students for the community in which they are located. Results of the graphing are used to explain the water cycle. Water, Graphing, Community, Data, Raw, Streaming

Raw climate and stream outflow data is collected, graphed and analyzed by students for the community in which they are located. Results of the graphing are used to explain the water cycle.

Students explore biodiversity, view introductory powerpoints, read background info, perform card activities, keep notebook plant journal, perform assessment, take field trip if possible, includes numerous references. Education, Biodiversity, Prairie Planting, Field, Field Trip, Wild Flowers

Prairie Planting

Prairie Plants

Students explore biodiversity, view introductory powerpoints, read background info, perform card activities, keep notebook plant journal, perform assessment, take field trip if possible, includes numerous references.

Google Slides OPEN & GO lesson for Kansas Teachers K-12 Songs, Youtube, Music Videos, Annie Lennox, Playlist, Kinds Of Music, Muziek, Madonna, Video

Tallgrass Prairie

Google Slides OPEN & GO lesson for Kansas Teachers K-12

22 Kansas Day- Flint Hills Map Program ideas | kansas day, flint hills, kansas