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To Spread or Not to Spread

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the difference between the three types of contrails. In this contrails lesson, students make observations of contrails and record them. Students identify the three types of contrails and complete an experiment activity.
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Actions in Progress

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about an airport and answer short answer, matching, and multiple choice questions. Students complete 3 activities.
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Center of Gravity Problem Set

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils read a NASA Web-based text, then demonstrate an understanding of the text by using it to complete an activity on the center of gravity of a commercial cargo airplane.
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Energy Problem Set

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars calculate the potential energy of a glider, the kinetic energy of a moving glider and the change in velocity when potential energy changes to kinetic energy.
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Geometry Problem Set I

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students prove angles congruent by use of vertical angles definition, subtraction postulate, and transitivity postulate.
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Turbojet Thrust

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students, after reading the Web page Turbojet Thrust and completing the activity, explain how jet engines use air to produce thrust. The educational software ""FoilSim" is used in this instructional activity to help students calculate...
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What Do You Know!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment using a compass for navigation and consider how various instruments affect how we travel.
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Weightlessness

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use a coffee cup to demonstrate weightlessness. After a lecture/demo, students read an article on free-fall. They perform a simple experiment which helps them explain the concept of weightlessness.
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Faulty Powers?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the White House response to Richard A. Clarke's testimony and apology to the commission investigating the events of September 11, 2001.
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Aerodynamics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the basic principles of aerodynamics, including the roles and identity of natural forces involved. They examine how the force of gravity is overcome by the curved shape of an airplane wing and air pressure.
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Transportation

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars learn all about how people and products get from place to place.
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Things That Fly

For Teachers All
Students examine animals that can fly and discover that those animals need wind and wings to be able to leave the ground. They create a chart with two sides and they divide animals and objects that fly.
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Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars analyze the Japanese strategy for the Pacific and compare it to the Allied strategy. They identify on a map the sites that were important the early war in the Pacific, and identify key military engagements.
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How Do You Get to School?

For Teachers K
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
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Go Far in a Car

For Teachers K
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They are shown the book, This is the Way We Go to School. Afterward, they learn the phonetic principle of rhyming words.
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Take a Plane or a Train

For Teachers K
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. Instead of a bus, students attempt to sing the song using a different mode of transportation.
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How Does It Move?

For Teachers K
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They attempt to sing the song again, but change it for a tractor. They watch the book, A Visit With Grandma, through a projector, LCD panel, or big screen television and develop their...
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

For Teachers K
Students explore transportation and transportation related jobs as they improve their vocabulary.
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Are We There Yet?

For Teachers K
Students continue to study rhyming words. They use words and illustrations to help develop their vocabulary.
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The Sky and the Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students use a dichotomous key to distinguish between different types of clouds
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Fronts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders define cold and warm fronts, explain how they are formed and they ways that they affect the weather.
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Thunderstorms

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the attraction between two different charges to explain the concept of lightning in a thunderstorm.
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Technology and the Great Depression

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners examine how technology affected the Great Depression era. They view a video, conduct Internet research, and write articles for a class technology magazine.
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Flight 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to two of the four principles of flight: drag and thrust. As the class watches a video on these principles, they utilize ballons, straws and clothepins to simulate what they're seeing in the show. Nice, hands-on...

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