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Basics About Beef Crossword
In this health learning exercise, students complete an 85 clue crossword puzzle about beef. Questions cover names for various cuts, cooking words, and filler words such as "abbreviation for etcetera."
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Plant Cycles
Students identify plants parts and their functions. In this plant cycle instructional activity, students examine parts of plants and how the parts help them survive in its environment. Students use graphic organizers, the internet,...
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Sizing Up Sound
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of sound waves and frequency. As a class, they listen to the differences between different types of instruments. To end the lesson, they practice identifying low and high pitches and playing...
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Molar Ratio
Students conduct an experiment in which they react sodium bicarbonate with hydrochloric acid to determine the molar ration between the two reactants. Students must write correct formula and a balanced chemical equation and explain how...
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Clean Coal?
Students determine, based on their knowledge of coal pollutants, the effectiveness of clean-coal technologies. They state and defend a position on whether power plants in the United States should be required to upgrade to available...
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How Far Does Light Go?
Students engage in research from the internet to search for facts concerning the scientific properties of light. The information is collected in order to gather evidence for a classroom debate. The debate includes a question and answer...
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Forestry, What's in It for You And Me?
Students examine the usefulness of every part of trees in a variety of activities in this unit.
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Using Drama as a Resource for Giving Language More Meaning
Students revise and provide spoken and written practice of modal verbs in the past for criticism.
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Motion Through the Ages
Eighth graders conduct internet research to produce a timeline of man's growth in understanding of concepts of motion and planetary motion through history.
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Water
Students examine water, its function and how much you should consume. In this water instructional activity students study water and why it is important, how much you should drink and what its functions are in your body.
National Geographic
National Geographic: The Right Balance: Mixing Energy Resources
In this lesson, students look at profiles of energy production for different regions of the United States. They examine the conversion efficiency and the carbon dioxide emissions of each type of energy, and then the environmental impact...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Energy Use and Energy Sources
This interactive learning module will focus on the fundamentals of energy and energy sources, renewable and nonrenewable, that support the human population. Students will also explore our dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels to...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies: Our Energy Sources
The many sources of energy production in the United States are described in this overview. Included are traditional sources, renewable sources, and new energy production technologies.
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas
State Energy Conservation Office:energy Sources: Biomass Energy From Agriculture
Texas has the potential for becoming a leading provider of biomass energy due to its agricultural industry. Some crops produced in Texas, such as canola, switchgrass, sorghum, and sugarcane, have been identified as energy crops that...
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas
State Energy Conservation Office: Energy Sources: Fuels From Biomass: Biodiesel
Discusses biodiesel fuel production and the benefits that this renewable energy resource has for the environment and the economy.
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas
State Energy Conservation Office: Energy Sources: Biomass: Manure for Fuel
Texas is famous for its cattle ranches, and all those cattle produce a lot of manure. Texans are working on projects to harness the energy in manure in various ways. Dry manure has been and continues to be burned for heating and cooking....
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Lehigh University: Energy
An inquiry-based science unit for middle school students centered on the world's energy sources. The lessons integrate technology and lab activities while teaching about energy sources, production, and consumption.
US Department of Energy
U.s. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Access to information, policy initiatives, advice, and analysis on issues of energy efficiency and renewable energy, from the U.S. Department of Energy. Its network is responsible for tracking the technological, economic, and...
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids
This comprehensive lesson teaches all about energy, including the different forms, the periodic table, history of human energy use and production, and energy units. It contains an interactive energy calculator, games and activities, and...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies: Our Energy Sources: Nuclear Energy
Nuclear fission energy accounts for a large portion of energy production worldwide. New plants will use improved technologies. There is also research underway to explore how to harness the energy produced from nuclear fusion, but this...
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: The Energy Report: Crude Oil [Pdf]
Chapter 4 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at crude oil as an energy source, its history, and its many uses and products. The economic impact of the petroleum industry in Texas is described, the scale and scope of...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Energy Challenges
With this resource, users join investigators in the exploration of humans' use of and dependence on the many energy resources. Learn about new technologies such as carbon capture and sequestration as an alternative to reduce our carbon...
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: The Energy Report: Hydrogen [Pdf]
Chapter 22 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at hydrogen as an energy source, its history, and uses. The economic impact of the hydrogen energy sector in Texas is described, the consumption of hydrogen, methods of...
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Wuppertal Institute: Towards a Global Energy Transformation [Pdf]
This study analyzes the deepening crisis in the availability of global energy resources and looks at ways to transform how we produce and use energy in order to create a sustainable development model. They state that "Socially just and...