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Steamship Portland: Where's the Energy?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine how steamships operate. They describe the necessary energy conversions. They construct a model paddlewheel ship. They use rubber bands as examples of potential and kinetic energy as they unwind and set the models in motion.
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Energy Transformations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate energy and energy transformations. They compare the various forms of energy, create the circuit and sketch the connections. In addition, they label the circuit to identify areas where energy transformation is present.
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Activation Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate activation energy through endothermic and exothermic reactions. In this activation energy lesson plan, students conduct 2 experiments, one is an endothermic reaction and the other is an exothermic reaction. Students...
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Filling Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th
For this filling up worksheet, students calculate the E85 per gasoline-gallon equivalent price to the E85 price per gallon to complete a chart of "alternative fuel". They use the data along with the price per gallon of gasoline to plot...
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Discovering How a Car Works

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explain the four stroke process in internal combustion engines. In this physics lesson, students role play this process and present their reenactment in class. They draw and label the diagram of an internal combustion engine.
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Where's the Energy

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research energy conversions. In this energy lesson, students describe the basic operation of a steam engine.  They explain the energy conversions in the steam engine's operation. 
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Energy and Work

For Students 7th - 10th
In this energy and work worksheet, students determine the forces acting upon objects and the work accomplished in moving objects. Students identify the location on a diagram where kinetic energy is increasing and they describe the energy...
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Being Spontaneous

For Students 9th - 12th
In this spontaneous reactions worksheet, students read about entropy, enthalpy and Gibbs free energy. They complete a table with reaction conditions and determine if the reaction is spontaneous or not. They solve three problems about...
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Design Your Own Rube Goldberg Machine

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students participate in a culminating activity for a unit on Energy and Simple Machines. They are challenged to incorporate simple machines in to a complex mechanical system. While designing and testing their machine they will also...
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Energy and How it Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this energy worksheet, students analyze a key to decode 4 sentences. Students also write what energy transformations are taking place in 4 different examples.
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Ecological Impact of River Dams

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students investigate their environment by completing an in-class experiment.  In this ecological lesson, students define the roles of dams and how electricity is created by them.  Students utilize plastic jugs, sand and tap...
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Angles: Angles, Angles, Everywhere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars practice estiminating and measuring angles. After watching a short video, they identify angles in objects in the classroom and their homes. In groups, they participate in activities in which they are given a scenerio and...
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Roller Coaster Physics

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students design a roller coaster that allows a marble to run the course as fast as possible. Students create an experimental roller coaster taking into account the steepness of the hills and the sharpness of the turns. Students use a...
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Sixth Grade Science Test

For Students 6th
For this science activity, 6th graders take a multiple choice quiz about properties, energy, formulas, and more. Students complete 30 questions total.
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The Role of Enzymes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the role of enzymes in chemical reactions. In this enzymes lesson plan, students use hydrogen peroxide and manganese dioxide to observe a chemical reaction. Students observe the rates of reactions of chalk, hamburger,...
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Stellar Evolution and the Fate of Earth

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify the different stages in the life cycle of a star. In this astronomy instructional activity, 8th graders read H-R diagrams and analyze data. The describe how the Sun's evolution will affect Earth in the future.
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Designing and Building Catapults

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders complete a challenge to create a catapult that projects a marble or other projectile at least one meter. While experimenting they apply the Four Question Strategy to answer the question, " How can I make one modification...
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Air Movers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students learn about Rube Goldberg machines (complicated devices designed to accomplish simple tasks and then design and build a machine that uses more than six separate steps to move an empty aluminum can. They can either work...
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A Fine Mess

For Students 9th - 12th
In this enthalpy and entropy worksheet, students read about the differences between enthalpy and entropy and answer three critical thinking questions about the reading.
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Exothermic vs. Endothermic

For Teachers 10th
The PowerPoint opens with video footage of the decomposition of nitrogen triiodide and then explains it with diagrams. Graphs of exothermic and endothermic reactions are exhibited, as well as one for the effect of a catalyst on reaction...
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Electricity Crossword

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this electricity worksheet, learners complete a crossword puzzle by figuring out the vocabulary words associated with the 20 clues given.
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2010 Electricity 10

For Students 9th - 12th
In this electricity worksheet, students answer 17 multiple choice questions about electricity, how it is measured, the types of currents, the types of meters and circuits. Students also answer multiple choice questions about protein...
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Breath, Eyes, Memory Study Questions and Suggested Essay Topics

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer and essay questions about Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Students may check some of their answers online.
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Ionic Compounds

For Students 9th - 12th
In this compounds worksheet, students review the structure and properties of ionic compounds, their formulas and nomenclature, and molecular mass and percentage composition. This worksheet has 4 short answer questions and 7 problems to...

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