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Technology and the Great Depression

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine how technology affected the Great Depression era. They view a video, conduct Internet research, and write articles for a class technology magazine.
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Flight 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to two of the four principles of flight: drag and thrust. As the class watches a video on these principles, they utilize ballons, straws and clothepins to simulate what they're seeing in the show. Nice, hands-on...
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Is Urban Sprawl Causing Us To Lose More Than Ground?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students map the changes that occur in the land as a result of urban sprawl. They explore the problems that paving and building have on the watershed and the habitats on the Northshore.
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Going in Cycles: The Life of an Aluminum Can

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students investigate the manufacture of aluminum cans and consider the energy and resources saved when the cans are made from recycled material. They explore the concept of closed-loop recycling using charts, worksheets and discussion.
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Sounds Like Science - Drums

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars see that understanding how sound is produced makes it possible for us to manipulate it so we can decrease the number of unpleasant sounds we encounter. They make a drum to explore the concepts of force, pitch and volume.
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Lesson 3. No One Spared

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders, in groups, explore the devastation that World War I inflicted on millions of people around the world. They write a first-hand account of the impact of World war I.
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They Also Flew

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students research the Tuskegee Airmen and the Flygirls of World War II. They write an account of one of the flyers of what they think happened.
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Disposable vs. Reusable, Biodegradable vs. Non-biodegradable

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine and identify biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials. They discover ways in which biodegradable materials can help minimize pollution.
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The Ozone Between Us

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate how ground level ozone occurs in many areas of the country. They study the ozone problems that are associated with population centers.
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The Energy of Music

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover how engineers use sound energy. They participate in hands-on activities in which they discover how we know sound exists. They identify different pitches and frequencies as well.
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Catapults!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students work together to discover the relationship between the angle of catapults and the flight of different objects. They discover the heavier the object the more force is needed. They examine how engineers use this information to...
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Tightrope Trials

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research the concepts of center of mass and how to make different things balance. They make symmetrical cut-outs of different "creatures" and experiment with how they balance on a tightrope of string.
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Science: Reading a Compass

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate how to take bearings using a compass. In pairs, they select objects in the classroom then write down its first initial and bearing. They exchange papers and try to disciver their partner's object.
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The Forecast Factory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students role play weather forecasting activities. They investigate weather forecasting processes such as equations, data analysis, announcing by role playing in a large lecture hall.
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Bernoulli's Principle: Wind and Wings

For Teachers K - 8th
Students investigate Bernoulli's aeronautical discoveries. Working in groups they conduct simple experiments with paper that demonstrate how airplane wings work and how they are affected by air pressure.
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Air Pollution Word Search Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students examine the issues surrounding air pollution. They discover how it affects peoples health and the government's regulations. They complete a word search activity to practice the vocabulary.
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Air Terms: The Flash Card Game

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders define vocabulary words regarding air quality. In small groups, they match magazine pictures or create illustrations for definitions and terms, and share the flash cards with their group.
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Dew Point

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate saturation conditions and measure the dew point. They conduct an experiment, record data on a worksheet, and measure the dew point in the experiment.
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MagLev Train System Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to analyze practices that affect the use, availabiltiy, and management of natural resources. They are able to show that the forces of friction retards motion. Students investigate electricity and magnetism as...
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Ohio Inventors

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders gain an understanding of the impacts that inventions have made on the lives of others and how new developments led to the growth of Ohio and the United States. They also investigate the lives of some individual inventors.
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Hanging Around

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore weight by building a spring scale and observing how it responds to objects with different masses. Each team of students can make their own spring scale by following steps which are specifically outlined in the plan. As...
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The KAO Telescope

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the basic principles of the operation of the NASA's KAO telescope. They construct a simplified model of it using film canisters and other everyday objects. Step by step directions are included in plan.
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Pictographic Poetry of Current Events

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss recent currents events as a class. Using one of the events, they write a poem about how they feel about the event in question. They choose specific symbols that relate to event and write a poem about it as well. They...
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Weather Predictions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils play the role of weather personalities by making five day forecasts based on data gathered from observations, weather instruments, and weather maps. Each day a small group makes a class forecast for the next day and reviews the...

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