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SCESTA Lesson Plan and Activity Archive

Featured Lessons

A fun activity, M & M Earth, teaches students about the organization of layers within the earth by dissecting a peanut M & M candy. It also investigates how scientists can learn about things they can't easily see or touch. For more information, click below!

Painting with Rocks, a lesson that teaches students about how earth materials were used for body paints, was written by Dr. John Wagner of Clemson University in Clemson, SC. For more information click below!

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