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Waters of the Earth
Students make a striking visual display showing the distribution of water on earth.
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May the Force Be With You: Drag
Do not let friction drag you down! The 11th segment in a series of 22 focuses on the fourth force acting upon an airplane—drag. Pupils learn about the effects and causes of drag.
Starry Night Education
The Year and Seasons
Turn your classroom into a live demonstration of how the earth and sun interact to create the four seasons. Using a globe, a light source, and a series of constellation cards, super scientists discover how the...
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Transformations in the Coordinate Plane
Your learners connect the new concepts of transformations in the coordinate plane to their previous knowledge using the solid vocabulary development in this unit. Like a foreign language, mathematics has its own set of vocabulary terms...
NASA
Christa's Lost Lesson: Effervescence
How are chemical reactions affected by gravity? Learners explore the phenomenon of effervescence as part of the Christa's Lost Lessons series. They compare findings in an experiment on effervescence to a video of a similar experiment in...
Space Awareness
Seasons Around the World
Why does Earth experience summer, fall, winter, and spring? Using an informative demonstration, learners see how the angle of the sun on Earth and the rotation of Earth determine the seasons. Scholars work in pairs to learn that the...
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Conjugating Verbs in Spanish
It's time to conjugate! If your class doesn't really know what that means, use the materials provided here to build understanding. The resource covers verbs, infinitives, the different Spanish verb endings, conjugation in the present...
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Is there Treasure in Trash?
More people, more garbage! Young environmentalists graph population growth against the amount of garbage generated per year and find a linear model that best fits the data. This is an older resource that could benefit from more recent...
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Act it Out
In this money worksheet, students solve 5 word problems where they are given an amount of money in written form and make a list to help organize the information in order to add the coin values. Students make change in 4 of the problems.
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Solar Isolation Changes and the Sunspot Cycle
In this sunspot cycle and solar irradiation worksheet, students use 2 graphs of daily total solar irradiance and sunspot activity to solve 3 problems. They find the average solar irradiance during a given time, they determine the...
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Weather, Sea Level Rise and Climate Change
Students compare the carbon dioxide content of four different samples. In this chemistry lesson plan, students research the causes of global warming. They explain how humans contribute to rising global temperature.
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Hypothermia: Temperature Changes Under Varying Conditions
Students conduct an experiment to determine what type of clothing would be most suitable for outdoor activities. They determine the temperature changes of the skin under various wet clothing materials and graph the temperature changes. ...
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The Nature of Chemical Change: Acting Out An Example
Students illustrate the molecular nature of matter and show that chemical change involves alteration of molecules.
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Phase Change
Students compare the freezing temperature of two substances by conducting an experiment to freeze liquid ice cream. They vary the amount of salt used in the ice cubes during the freezing procedure to determine the change in the...
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A Meal of Endurance
Students evaluate the nutritional value of the explorers' meals. This is done through analyzing caloric intake versus caloric expenditure, describing the trend in diet change that explorers experienced over a two year expedition, ...
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Piggy Bank Math Game
In this money and coins worksheet, students participate in playing a money game that incorporates the process of making change. Students play the money game with a deck of seventy-five cards that have piggy banks with...
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The Mystery of the Missing Hummingbirds
Learners record scientific observations in a science journal. In this season lesson, students make observations about each of the seasons and record in their journals. Learners record organisms response to seasonal changes...
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Characteristics of Living Things
Student use the scientific method to experiment with worms. In this characteristics of living things lesson, students predict and examine the reactions of worms to dry and wet soil. Students share their findings.
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Drugs Change the Way Neurons Communicate
Students examine that certain drugs interfere selectively with neurotransmission, and realize that the effect of a drug is dependent upon dosage and route of administration.
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Solar Car Series: During what part of the day can t most Sun power be collected?
Students participate in an outdoor activity in which they make direct but safe observations of the Sun. Students use a solar cell and voltmeter apparatus to collect data on the amount of DC voltage produced by the solar cell during a...
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Momentum and Conservation of Momentum
In this momentum worksheet, students calculate momentum from the mass and velocity of an object. Students learn about the Law of Conservation of Momentum. This worksheet has 8 matching, 6 fill in the blank, and 8 word problems.
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Time Management: Piece of Pie
Students examine their own lives and how well they manage their time outside of school. In this this time management lesson plan, students discover the amount of time they spend on other activities, and create a pie chart with that...
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Place Value: Making Change with Canadian Money
In this place value: making change with Canadian money learning exercise, students use a spreadsheet and certain coins to practice and record how much change would be given from a $5 bill. A parent or tutor adjusts the...
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Explain the Change
Twelfth graders complete research relating to population changes in counties/states in the U.S. from 1900 to 2000 and use the slope formula to determine the overall change in population for each of the ten decades. They present their...