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Properties of Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars perform transformation on their polygons. In this geometry instructional activity, students identify the correct transformation of each shape. They move the polygons around on a coordinate plane. There are extension and...
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Lab 4: Integration by Substitution

For Students Higher Ed
In this integration worksheet, students transform antiderivatives and integrals by using substitution functions. They sketch graphs of two antiderivatives and describe their relationship. Students use trigonometric identities to find the...
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California-Becoming an Agricultural and Insustrial Power

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power. They trace the transformation of the California economy in its political and cultural development since the 1850's.
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Water Power

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe a model of a waterwheel to investigate the transformations of energy involved in turning the blades of a hydro-turbine into work. They work as engineers to create a model for a new waterwheel while considering resources,...
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Wind Power! 2

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore how engineers transform wind energy into electrical energy by building their own miniature wind turbines and measuring the electrical current it produces. They see how design and position affect the electrical...
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Write Your Own Screen Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students critique the transition of "Holes" from a novel to screenplay and consider how the details in a book are brought to life in a movie. They then choose a scene in a book and transform it into an original script after brainstorming...
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How Does Power Affect Conflict?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students use several short stories to analyze different types of power. While discussing the role of power in these short stories, students will practice communication skills essential to conflict transformation, specifically attentive...
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You Sank My Battleship

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars apply the concept of transformation to the game of battleship. In this algebra lesson, students relate their linear equations to how they would graph or set up their game pieces to win.
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Jesus: His Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how Jesus was a simple carpenter, yet His words transformed the course of Western Civilization. From his birth in Bethlehem to His final days and crucifixion.
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Lots of Lines

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students see that artists make many different kinds of lines. They discuss how artists use line to show ideas such as motion, mood, or emphasis. They geet a "scribble" to transform into a picture using Colorific markers or erasable crayons.
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Simple Thermodynamics of Transportation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch videos about various modes of transportation, they examine the energy transformations that occur in each, and they be introduced to the laws of thermodynamics.
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Thar She Blows!: Wind Power

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how wind energy is transformed into electrical energy. In pairs, they build miniature wind turbines and measure how much electrical current they produce. They asses the importance of design and position in energy...
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Medieval Madness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a critical reading of the novel "The Midwife's Apprentice." During their reading, students create several journal responses to the character's situation and transformation. Working with computers, students complete...
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TE Lesson: Renewable Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine renewable energy sources such as solar, water, and wind. They experiment to determine how renewable energy is transformed into electricity. They investigate the role of engineers who work in the field of renewable energy.
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Falling Water

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students drop water from different heights to demonstrate the conversion of water's potential energy to kinetic energy. They see how varying the height from which water is dropped affects the splash size. In seeing how falling water can...
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Future tense

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They read a story that is written in past tense and discuss how to change it to future tense. Students transform a news story from past to future tense.
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Holes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars read and analyze the story elements of the novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar. They play a "Holes" matching game, complete a timeline of story events, complete a Cause-and-Effect graphic organizer, conduct research on Louis...
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Simulation of Gene Splicing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use the exercise as a prelude to a "wet" lab or as a substitute for such a lab. It correlates well with colony transformation labs. This lab is recommended for students what have difficulty with the abstractions that...
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Grade 5: Testing for Tessellations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use formal geometric language to describe polygons (and other shapes) that will tessellate the plane and those that will not. Students make generalizations about the characteristics of a polygon (or other shape) that will...
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Butterflies on Camera

For Teachers K
Students explore the real experience with the sequence and process of caterpillar-to-butterfly metamorphosis. They actually get to watch the process unfold in the classroom. A Flex-Cam records the video of the process to assure that the...
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Cranimals in 3D

For Teachers K - 5th
Students design their own mix and match animals, using lesson framework that emphasizes transformation, explore differences between clay and model magic, experiment with clay, and shape their animals into 3D sculptures.
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On The Farm

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students study a dairy farm and also the crops that grow on farms. They research how we depend on farms to get the food we eat. They transform their findings and describe one the farms or make up their own. They turn the information...
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Energy and How it Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this energy activity, learners analyze a key to decode 4 sentences. Students also write what energy transformations are taking place in 4 different examples.
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Learning to Use Painting Tools to Change a Drawing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice creating abstract art using computer software.  In this painting lesson, students discuss how great fairy tale characters have the ability to transform, as do images.  Students utilize a painting software...

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