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Running for Public Office
Students engage in the election process. In this public office instructional activity, students review the election and campaign process then design a campaign for their own selected office election using provided guidelines and links.
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Land Use Issues
Students examine living and non-living things in their environment. They identify trees, plants, and grasses in their neighborhood and those that originate in Illinois in this unit of lessons.
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Weightlessness Demonstration
Students investigate gravity. For this weightless lesson students complete a lab activity about how a free fall might effect how one perceives gravity.
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Observing Motion
First graders explore movement and motion. In this motion instructional activity, 1st graders how objects can move as well as how the Earth is in constant motion and the force of gravity. Students complete a coloring sheet.
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Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
Students apply the mechanical advantages and problem-solving capabilities of six types of simple machines (wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane, screw, pulley) as they discuss modern structures in the spirit of the engineers and...
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Ring Around the Rosie
Students examine the concept of angular momentum and its correlation to mass, velocity, and radius. They listen to a teacher-led lecture, conduct an experiment with rotational inertia, angular momentum, and rotation speed by making...
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Map your Schoolyard
Students practice their mapping skills by creating an accurate map of their schoolyard using an aerial photo from the National Map web site. Students include legends, a scale, and a north arrow on their maps.
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Weightlessness
Students use a coffee cup to demonstrate weightlessness. After a lecture/demo, students read an article on free-fall. They perform a simple experiment which helps them explain the concept of weightlessness.
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A Shot Under Pressure
You've got to pump it up! Using the equations for projectile motion and Bernoulli's Principle, class members calculate the water pressure in a water gun. The pupils collect data on the number of pumps and distance traveled in order...
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Egg-cellent Landing
The classic egg-drop experiment gets a new bounce with an activity that asks pairs to design a lander similar to one used to land a rover on Mars within a fixed budget. The activity provides a great introduction to the idea of...
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Edible Rovers (High School)
Design and build a rover ... then eat it? This activity has groups of two design and build Mars rovers. The teams determine what instruments they want to include with their rover and plan a budget. They calculate the cost of the body of...
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Edible Rovers
The good thing about building this rover is you get to eat it afterwards. Pairs determine rover parts they want to include in their design based upon their cost and usefulness. The teams design their rovers, build them from edible...
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A Tour of Jaffa
Use the age-old Traveling Salesman Problem to introduce Hamilton circuits to your young travelers. Individuals then plan an efficient route to visit all the places they want to go.
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Compare and Order Whole Numbers and Decimals
Here is a comparing and ordering worksheet in which learners read and solve six problems in which decimal and whole numbers are ordered and compared.
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Making the Impossible, Possible
With budget cuts galore, skip the bake sales and create a project with Donors Choose.
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Ring Around the Rosie
Students work together to discover the concept of angular momentum. They participate in experiments in which they test rotation and relate it to an object's mass. They participate in a literacy activity in which they compare mythology...
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Weightlessness
Students predict the behavior of coffee in a cup while it is dropped during a demonstration. They relate their observations to the weightless conditions that astronauts experience in space and discuss the concept of free-fall.
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May the Force Be With You
Students read an article, brainstorm ideas and prepare journals investigating why people enjoy 'thrill' rides, what forces affect the body on these rides and how they can become dangerous.
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Homeschooling Chronicles - Educational Vacations
You can make a vacation an educational and fun experience.
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Compound Inequalities
In this algebra worksheet, 11th graders solve compound inequalities and graph their solution on a number line. There are 6 questions with an answer key.
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The Fair Factor
Students participate in playing many games to determine if they are fair or not. They create their own game that is fair to play with their classmates.
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Students improvise then compose and notate melodies with appropriate accompaniments that are inspired by events that transpired during their summer vacations. Requires a networked keyboard lab.
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Solving Two Step Equations
In this algebra instructional activity, students solve linear equations using the slope and y-intercept. They solve word problems using algebra. There are 9 questions with an answer key.
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Chemistry World The Five Types of Chemical Reactions
Students research five types of chemical reactions in order to design a learning center. Students use technology to research and present their material.