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Pronunciation of Intonation Patterns

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students in ESOL classes practice communication skills using voice intonation patterns. Using various patterns, they practice sentences with rising and falling intonations. With partners, students read passages orally with emphasis...
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To There And Back

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students calculate distance on a map by using a mileage scale to calculate the distance from their hometown to Niagara Falls. They, in groups, determine the best route, then compose stories about their journey to Niagra Falls.
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How Fast Is that Rocket?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate the speed of a falling object using measurements from a falling rocket. They report data from their data sheet to the teacher to record on the board or on the overhead transparency and discuss the results with...
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Bounce (Projectile Motion And Collisions)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the motion of an object as it moves through a complex path that includes rolling, falling, and bouncing. They answer questions related to what forces are acting at any given time.
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What Goes Up Must Come Down!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students hypothesize about the nature of falling objects, design an experimental test to answer the question using everyday objects, analyze data to form conclusions, and infer that mass does not affect the speed of falling objects. This...
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Newton's Laws 8th Grade Activities

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders experiment with Newton's Laws by comparing the falling of different objects with different masses. Students work in teams and rotate through four different stations recording their hypotheses and observations as they go.
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The Roman Empire

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the reasons behind the fall of the Roman Empire and describe the changes that occurred after the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Weightlessness Demonstration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept that free-fall eliminates the local effects of gravity. They discuss what an Earth-orbiting spacecraft experience is like as well as the terminology of weightlessness. Their lab experiment commences.
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Gravity Study Guide

For Students 9th - 12th
In this gravity worksheet, students define terms such as free fall, terminal velocity, and inertia. Then students compare the different types of forces that act upon objects. This worksheet has 9 short answer and 4 fill in the blank...
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October Writing Journal

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this October writing journal worksheet, students are given a list of October daily writing prompts to choose from, and a fall-framed writing page on which to write.
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Weightlessness Demonstration

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate gravity.  In this weightless lesson plan students complete a lab activity about how a free fall might effect how one perceives gravity.
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What's it Like Inside the Sun?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students perform experiment in which they model convection as it occurs in our Sun. They also explain that convection acts where the effect of gravity and heat are present (low density fluids can rise and cool, and high density fluids...
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Environment: Water Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm the ways that water flows when it falls to the ground. After discussing three things water can do, they investigate and predict water movement outdoors on school grounds. They experiment ways to alter the water flow...
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History: New England Indian Wars

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research English and Indian battles in New England. Working in groups, they examine the Bloody Brook Massacre and the falls fight. After completing battle summary worksheets, hold a class discussion to review the findings.
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Electrical Safety Emergency Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss Picture 7 which is a hairdryer near a basin. They discover that if the hairdryer is plugged in and turned on and falls into the water it will form a circuit and anyone touching the water or hairdryer may be electrocuted....
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Hang Time

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students discuss how all objects fall at the same rate and vertical motion is independent of the horizontal motion. Students apply this information to center of mass activities before solving equations.
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Time Capsule

For Teachers 1st
First graders collect data in the fall and again in the spring. they use the data from both seasons to compare and contrast changes over time. They put the data from the fall into a box or "time capsule." The teacher encourages students...
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Make it Rain!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars describe how water exists on earth in three states. They trace the path that rain water follows after it falls. Students describe various forms that water takes on the earth's surface and conditions under which they...
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Geometry: Quadrilateral, Triangle, Parallelogram

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this geometry worksheet, students decide which characteristic, quadrilateral, triangle, or parallelogram make sets of shapes fall under that same category.
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The Public Choices of Senator Aspyer Tu Moore

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students participate in a play in which Senator Aspyer Tu Moore is finishing his first term in the Senate and has decided to seek re-election in the fall.
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Measuring Rainfall

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, students will make a gauge to measure rainfall and see how much rain falls over several days.
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I'll Just Charge It

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore advantages and disadvantages of credit card use before they fall into the credit trap!
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Survivor

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate changes in the ecosystem within the school year. They see that ecosystems, communities, populations, and organisms are dynamic and change over time. They, in groups, collect data in quadrants in the fall,...
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Magic Wand

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students observe how an image falling on a CCD array is divided into individual pieces, by the property of persistance of vision.

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