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Integers and Words
For this math worksheet, 4th graders will practice converting integer values to and from words. The teacher can select either or both directions. Additionally, the teacher can select the highest place value that is used in the...
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Exploring Dwarf Planet Eris
In this planet Eris worksheet, students read about the discovery of this dwarf planet and its characteristics. Students answer 3 questions about the planets, the classification of planets and the definition of planets. Students define 7...
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The Coffee and Conservation Connection
High schoolers explore the connection between low cost coffee and wildlife conservation. Students working in groups devise a marketing campaign for a new brand of coffee, grown in a less environmentally damaging way.
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Shrinking Spaces
Students describe the impact of population growth on the environment. They describe how cities affect their surrounding environment and explain how cities are handling growth and its resulting effect on the quality of life. They visit...
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Integrating Space Science-Our Changing Universe
In this universe worksheet, students read about the big bang theory and the evolution of the stars from the elements. Students answer four critical thinking questions about the beginnings of our universe.
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Can You Hear My Now?: Getting the Message Across
In this power transmittance instructional activity, students read about sources that transmit power and are given a chart with the distance and the power transmitted by each device. Students determine the intensity in watts of the power...
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Light Travel Times
In this travel time of light worksheet, students read about the NASA satellites and space probes that transmit radio signals at the speed of light across huge distances. Students solve 3 problems about data transmission from space to...
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Space: The Universe As We Know It!
Learners simulate the Big Bang. In this instructional activity on the origin of our universe, students role play to show how the Big Bang explosion may have created our universe.
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Applied Science - Technology (3A) Pre Lab
Third graders discuss electric currents. For this circuit lesson, 3rd graders create a picture of a battery circuit and a light bulb. They show the positive and negative charge and the flow of electrons.
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Gravity Gets You Down
Students investigate the force of gravity and how it effects different objects that are put into acceleration when applied the experiment of free falling. They drop different objects that have a variety of masses and some that cause air...
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Climate Change: Carbon Cycle
Students explore the carbon cycle. In this carbon cycle lesson, students discuss the four main reservoirs where carbon is stored and then discover the process through which each reservoir absorbs and releases CO2. This lesson includes a...
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Displaying Populations: Jellybeans, Paper and People
Young scholars investigate the factors affecting population growth. For this biology lesson, students collect data from the lab and graph them. They estimate population size using a mathematical formula.
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Choices Make A Difference
Students are explained that wastewater treatment plants are regulated as to the quality of water they may discharge into our rivers and canals. They are explained that wastewater treatment plants clean many pollutants out of the...
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Letters from the Heart: Designing for the Other 90% of the World's Population
Students explore varied aspects of the design process and learn that most products are designed to reach the worlds wealthiest 10%. In this instructional activity, students work in groups to learn ways in which designers are attempting...
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World Population Day
For this World Population Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions, take a...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing a Bead on the Wall Street Rats
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about Wall Street executive bonuses and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Earth Day
In this Earth Day worksheet, learners complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write...
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Breaking News English: Cadbury's Chocolate
In this Cadbury's chocolate worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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The Way of Water in the World
High schoolers explore problems and design solutions in relation to water issues. For this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students play an interactive game in order to explore global water issues to create solutions for the water...
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Numbers Tell a Story
Young scholars connect census data to historical events. In this civics lesson plan, students understand cause and effect, and how they are reflected in census data and analyze census data for social and economic significance.
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Satellite Technology
In this satellite technology activity, students read about Low Earth Orbit satellites and the frictional drag from the Earth's atmosphere that causes them to fall back towards the Earth. Students use given data of the years the...
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A Galaxy Up Close
In this Sombrero Galaxy learning exercise, students observe infrared images taken by the Spitzer Infrared Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. They answer 9 questions about the details of the images such as the radius of the stellar...
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A Glimpse of the Most Distant Galaxy
For this most distant galaxy worksheet, students use a Deep Field image taken by the FORS camera at the ESA-VLT observatory to answer 4 questions about the redshifts identified in the field. They use an on line redshift calculator to...
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Earth Time Scale
Students research the past eras in history including the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and the Cenozoic. In this time scale lesson plan students take part in a lab that allows the students a better understanding of the timeline...