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Curated OER

Field Trip to test Water Quality

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine water quality indicators,test water quality and record their results.  In this water quality lesson students complete a water testing lab and complete a lab report. 
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Plotting Numbers and Test

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a human number line. They determine the correct placement of various numbers ranging from -4 to 4. Additionally, they will determine the placement of numbers written as fractions and/or decimals.
AP Test Prep
College Board

2010 AP® Psychology Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A pep rally may seem like a simple ritual for a high school, but there are a number of psychological factors operating behind the scenes. Learners flesh out these features using a case study from College Board. A second prompt offers...
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Curated OER

Media Literacy in Presentations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study the three types of mass media messages: visual media, written media, and audio media. After a class discussion which has them list examples of each, learners get into pairs and work on analyzing the "Four A's" in...
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Virginia Department of Education

Prokaryotes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lead your biology class on a cell-sized adventure! Emerging scientists construct models of prokaryotes, then design an experiment to properly grow a bacterial culture. They conclude the activity by viewing the culture under a microscope....
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Cornell University

Non-Newtonian Fluids—How Slow Can You Go?

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Children enjoy playing with silly putty, but it provides more than just fun. Young scientists make their own silly putty using different recipes. After a bit of fun, they test and graph the viscosity of each.
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Curated OER

Made to Sail

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners use simple materials to make model sailboats which must stay upright and sail straight in a testing tank.
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Curated OER

Investigate Pine Creek!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars are invited to become detectives in this Web-Integrated Science Environment (WISE) as they explore a local creek, its environment and ongoing status. Students participate in field trips, acquisition of data through water...
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Curated OER

Making Logic Out of Madness

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders organize and interpret data from a student health program.  In this physical education lesson, 10th graders use a body composition analyzer over 8 weeks to determine the validity of a student health program. ...
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Curated OER

Social Studies: Improving Academic Skills

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders play a variation of Bingo to reinforce study skills, time management, and test taking strategies. As the teacher draws key words, they offer brief explanations or descriptions about how the words can be used. As key words...
Lesson Plan
English Enhanced Scope and Sequence

Blending and Segmenting Multisyllabic

For Teachers K Standards
Syl lab i ca tion. Kindergartners practice segmenting and blending multisyllabic words in an activity that asks them to repeat the process modeled by their teacher. The teacher slowly says the name of a classroom object, enunciating each...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Language Arts Test B-Grade 5

For Students 5th
For this grade 5 language arts test, 5th graders complete a 30 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 5 concepts. Answers may be submitted on-line.
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Curated OER

The Digestive System

For Teachers 5th Standards
Discover how the human body's digestive system works with a brain and stomach friendly activity. Scholars taste test a variety of foods to find out how they behave once in the mouth. Class members then play a game called Move That...
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Curated OER

Qualitative Analysis and Ksp Calculations

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this compounds worksheet, students determine which anion is present in solution from the results of testing with various reagents. Students compare the solubility of different compounds in water. This worksheet has 7 fill in the blank...
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Curated OER

Taste and Smell

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experiment with sense of smell, and how it relates to sense of taste.
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Curated OER

Upping the Odds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research test taking tips that focus on nutrition, sleep, and stress reducers. They create a variety of fun projects such as posters and brochures and present their findings to other classes.
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Curated OER

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in African American Students: Exploring African American Achievers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to ways to increase their self-esteem. As a class, they share their specific talents under three categories. In groups, they use the internet to research the lives of various African Americans making sure...
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Curated OER

Beverage Tests

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate the pH of a liquid.  In this middle school mathematics/science lesson, students collect and analyze data regarding the pH of various liquids.  Students display their data in various types of graphs as they...
Worksheet
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Vocabulary Reading Test Lesson 4-II

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this recognizing twenty-four vocabulary words worksheet, students use the four lists of words to write them from oral definitions and to create a complete sentence. Students write 25 answers.
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Student Designed Investigations: Observations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners choose an organism and create an experiment with that organism. In this observation lesson, students expose a living thing to something from its environment and record their observations. Learners must have some prior knowledge...
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Testing Soils for Garden Planting

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders collect soil samples and record the location of the samples by using GPS.
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Nasa's Return To Flight: Testing In

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explain basic components of the space shuttle stack and the chemical fuel makeup and storage used on the external tank of space shuttle. They discuss findings of Columbia mission accident. and the safety improvements that have...
Lesson Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Insulators and Conductors

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In a classic activity, emerging electricians test various objects for electrical conductivity in a circuit. Each group constructs a simple circuit by following a diagram. Predictions are made and objects are inserted into the circuit,...
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University of California

Heating and Cooling of the Earth's Surface

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Scholars collect data from heating sand and water before forming testable hypotheses about why sand heats up faster. Afterward, they develop and run experiments to test their hypotheses.