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Types by Texture: Soil Isn't a Dirty Word

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders experiment with different types of soil to find the texture. In this types of soil experiment, shake a jar of soil and water and record the settling of the soil. Students record again after 3-4 hours and note the level...
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Electricity - How it Works and How We Measure and Pay For It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate energy consumption by researching wattage.  In this electricity lesson, students discuss how electricity works and gets transferred to our electronic devices through generators and circuits.  Students...
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Financial Wizard

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners determine the best way to earn money.  In this financial wizard instructional activity, students read a story.  They compare different jobs, the rate of pay for each job and the number of hours required to do the...
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Child Literacy

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students read information on the importance of literacy and complete a worksheet. In this community service lesson, students evaluate children's literature and practice reading fluency. Students spend two hours per week reading to...
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Hard Boiled

For Students 9th
In this algebra worksheet, 9th graders investigate what the best method is to time the 15 minutes required to boil an egg. They use two hour glass with different time measurements to answer this question.
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Total Distance versus Displacement

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders differentiate between total distance and displacement. In this calculus activity, 12th graders rewrite word problems using calculus terminology and solve for distance in miles per hour. They analyze and solve word...
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Living Without Technology

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify how technology has made people's lives easier. In this technological advancements lesson, students live without modern machines in their homes for 24 hours and speculate about what life in America 100 years ago must...
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Keepsake Handprints

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students spread out model magic on a plate. In this art lesson, students press their hand into the model magic to make an impression in the clay. Students let it dry for at least 24 hours and then paint the handprint. Students enjoy...
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Clock Hands Overlap

For Students 9th - 12th
In this secondary mathematics learning exercise, learners determine the number of times in which the two hands of a clock overlap during a given twelve hour period.  The one page learning exercise contains one problem with the...
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Fort Wayne's Industrial Girls

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore what life was like for Fort Wayne's "industrial girls." In this industrialization lesson, 8th graders discuss the conditions that the Indiana factory girls worked in as well as their backgrounds. Students also...
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Shedding Light on the Weather with Relative Humidity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners study weather using a graphing calculator in this lesson. They collect data for temperature and relative humidity for every hour over a day from the newspaper, then place the data in their handheld calculator and examine it for...
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Write the Time in Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this time worksheet, students write the correct time in words according to the given analog clock. Each clock shows an exact hour.
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Telling Time: Analog to Digital

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this time worksheet, students write the correct digital time according to the given analog clock. The time is displayed in exact hours.
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Draw Hands on the Clock

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this showing times on analog clock faces learning exercise, students read the digital times and draw the corresponding hour and minute hands on the clocks. Students show 9 answers.
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Draw Hands on the Clock 2

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this showing the time on analog clock faces worksheet, students read the times and draw the hour and minute hands on analog clocks to the minute. Students solve 9 problems.
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Draw Hands on the Clock 3

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this showing the times on analog clocks worksheet, students read the times and draw the hour and minute hands on analog clocks to the minute. Students solve 9 problems.
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Fly Me to the Moon!

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this Moon travel worksheet, students construct a simple rocket trajectory called the Hohmann Transfer orbit using a compass, string, paper and a pencil. Students solve 2 problems which include finding the number of hours it takes to...
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Time

For Students 7th - 9th
In this algebra worksheet, learners break down the time to minutes, and seconds. They multiply decimals and convert it to hours per day. There are 6 questions.
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Foreshadowing and Situational Irony in Kate Chopin Short Stories

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This resource contains summaries of the stories featured, but limited procedural detail. Readers compare Chopin's stories' use of situational irony and foreshadowing. High interest content (questionable paternity, missing persons) for...
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Energy: The Universal Currency

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Science stars examine the concept of energy by thinking about everyday situations. The lesson plan is incohesive. It lists goals for the student, but doesn't address all of them in the content. The best use of this resource would simply...
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Unit Conversion in Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Hopefully by the time high schoolers are enrolled in your chemistry class, they are skilled with unit conversion. It does not hurt, however, to take an hour early in the school year to review this vital skill. This plan simply provides a...
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Room Temperature Investigation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
While the topic of this investigation is not specific to any particular discipline of science, it does serve as a practice of the scientific method. Learners set up a bowl containing boiling water, one with room temperature water, and...
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Plugging into the Sun

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What's cooking? A sizzling STEM unit challenges scholars to build a solar cooker that can successfully cook an egg. The unit opens with a study of Earth's rotation, the sun's energy, and shadows. Pupils use a compass and thermometer to...
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Murder of Emmett Till: Is It Ever Too Late for Justice?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The murder of Emmett Till is the focus of a guided inquiry that asks scholars to research the events, the trial, recent attempts to reopen the case and the effect of the murder on people today.

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