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What's Air Got to Do with It?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars use M&M's to create a pie graph that expresses their understanding of the composition of air. They watch and conduct several simple experiments to develop an understanding of the properties of air (it has mass, it...
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MAKE IT FLY

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students utilize the process of scientific inquiry and technological design to explain thrust, weight, lift and drag in flight. They design an "airplane" to test the "mechanics" of flight. In addition, they brainstorm and sketch a design...
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Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars watch streaming video, Holiday Facts and Fun: Thanksgiving, define and discuss acrostic poetry, complete circle map using words associated with Thanksgiving, and create acrostic Thanksgiving poems to be typed in Microsoft...
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Health and Nutrition

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine vocabulary words that deal with the parts of the body. They identify the body parts and organs associated with the five senses. They identify common illnesses, causes and treatments. They research various lifestyle...
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Popularity, Publicity, and Public Service

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners discuss the issue of celebritites who speak out for certain diseases. After reading an article, they consider a doctor's perspective on the use of celebrities. In groups, they research a common disease and design a public...
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Soul Food

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify foods that they associate with different cultural groups in which they are members and speculate possible connections between specific foods and the cultures in which they are popular. They also explore the importance...
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The Energy Debate - Energy of Peanut

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students articulate the difference between the terms heat and temperature. They calculate the amount of energy associated with a given temperature rise and design an experiment to measure the energy of a fuel.
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Cell 5 Diffusion and Osmosis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners distinguish between active and passive transport. Students identify key words associated with active and passive transport. They draw and explain the structure f the cellular membrane. They are able to define phospholipid...
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Cold Front Characteristics

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study weather characteristics of a cold front passage. They view animations of several atmospheric variables (e.g., temperature, rainfall) during a cold front passage and locate the front, determine its direction of movement,...
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Stars and Constellations-Pattern Recognition

For Students 5th - 7th
In this stars and constellations worksheet, students study a given constellation and identify the stars in the constellation. They label the stars in the constellation and identify the months the constellation is visible. They research...
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Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore parallel and perpendicular lines.  In this geometry instructional activity, 10th graders investigate the relationships associated with parallel lines and transversals, perpendicular lines, and the angles formed...
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Connect the Mathematical Dots

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Teachers can choose visual activities that demonstrate the elegance associated with the coordinate plane.
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Bermuda: Search for Deep Water Caves: Living Fossils

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore relict species. In this anchialine cave lesson, students identify relict species associated with anchialine caves, and explain the importance of preserving anchialine caves and species.
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Cloud Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
In this cloud instructional activity, students fill in a table for the ten types of clouds with their location in the sky, a sketch of each type of cloud, its symbol, the abbreviation for the cloud type and the weather each is associated...
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Likes and Dislikes

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students recognize and use the vocabulary associated with vacationing at the beach and, while playing a bean-bag toss game, express likes and dislikes in first, second, and third person conjugations (Spanish exercise).
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Tooth Be Told

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the images and feelings associated with teeth. They also create posters about the importance of teeth in a variety of animals.(August 5, 2003)
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Milk: A Practical Application

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Explain the coagulation and coalescence processes associated with milk protein and cheese. List the components of milk and explain how each component is dispersed in the milk. Describe what happens when milk protein is coagulated Discuss...
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Long-Lasting Impressions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate how their reactions to certain images have been altered by the events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent world events that followed. They share their personal memories associated with that day.
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Weather and Seasons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify weather terms associated with the four seasons and participate in a game "What is the Weather" using weather vocabulary to describe a season.
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Bystanders in the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize effects of apathy and indifference, examine behaviors associated with obedience, conformity, and silence, and explore legal responses to issues raised by the Holocaust.
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You Can BANK on This! (Part 4)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners assess both negative and positive incentives associated with credit card use. They identify profit as an economic incentive for banks to offer credit cards.
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DISCOUNT LENSES ( GELATIN WAVE GUIDES)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study attributes associated with concept of fiber optics is done using a labmade fiber optic from clear molded gelatin. A variety of shapes can be cut and pieced together to form a conduit to transmit the laser beam by internal...
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Reflections of the Sea

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students, after listening to a selection of Gulliver's Travels, complete a worksheet about basic terms associated with boats, ships, and sailing. They create flag after researching semaphore flagging systems.
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SMOKING: A RISK WORTH TAKING OR JUST A DRAG?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify and state a tobacco-related decision problem/issue, viable options regarding the selected problem; research and discuss risks and benefits associated with the decision problem; and state a decision based upon...

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