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Physical Science: Gravity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the properties of force and gravity and their effects on everyday life. In groups, they test various balls by bouncing them on different surfaces and observe the properties. In another activity, they test...
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Energy and Work

For Students 7th - 10th
In this energy and work worksheet, students determine the forces acting upon objects and the work accomplished in moving objects. Students identify the location on a diagram where kinetic energy is increasing and they describe the energy...
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Poly Spot Dribbling

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars perform dribbling activities using a basketball. In this dribbling lesson, students dribble a basketball according to the poly spot number that they land on. This lesson uses kinesthetics to gain knowledge of counting.
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What's Up With Updrafts?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate how hail and rain are suspended in the air during a storm. In this lesson on storms and weather, students use a hair dryer and ping pong ball to demonstrate how hail and rain can be suspended in the air during a storm.
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Limits and Continuity

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus worksheet, students work problems containing functions, limits and dealing with continuity. They evaluate functions and use the limits theorem to help find the correct answer. There are 26 questions.
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Cha-Cha Dribble

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work on dribbling with either hand. They follow directions and the rhythm of the music. Students dance to the Cha-Cha slide according to its directions and they add the dribble of the bbasketball with the number of "stomps."
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Soduko Puzzle

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus learning exercise, student solve problems by taking the derivative of the function as x approaches a specific limit. They evaluate trig functions using the properties of trig. There are 26 questions with an answer key.
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Card Sharks Basketball Passing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils practice chest and bounce passes with either basketballs or playground balls. They draw a card in order to determine which skill to practice.
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What Shape Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students predict the shape of an unknown object by bouncing a ball on it. For this physics lesson, students relate this activity to how dolphins use echo-location to navigate. They analyze their lab result and discuss findings.
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Advanced Throw and Catch

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice their throwing and catching skills. They use scooters to practice improve their skills. Students practice rebounding the ball against the wall. They play dodgeball as a class.
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Multi-Graphs

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
So many things change as time goes by. Here, scholars create graphs based on this premise. Each problem asks pupils to sketch a graph that describes a given situation. Their graphs represent various characteristics such as height,...
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Bottle Cap Basketball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students play a simple game to practice the fundamentals of a bounce pass and aiming the basketball.
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Honors Algebra 2 Reivew: Practice with Sequences

For Students 9th - 11th
For this practice with sequences worksheet, students find the arithmetic sequence and geometric sequence of given problems.  They determine the percent of change and solve exponent problems.  This one-page worksheet contains 11...
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Sports Helmets and Impact Testing of Polymers

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine the importance of good quality safety gear. In this investigative lesson, students will tests various polymers, collect data, and analyze the data to determine which polymer is best for safety helmets. They will design a...
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Lesson Plan 1: Up, Down, Right, Left - Function Families

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students work in small groups to draw the trajectory of several scenarios. They label parts of the resulting parabola (vertex, axis of symmetry). Students complete four stations to explore quadratic functions.
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Geometric Sequences and Series

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve sequences using the geometric mean for sequences and series. They have to find the next number in the pattern using the formula for geometric means. There are 23 problems to be solved.
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Playground Safety

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students conduct experiments with fruit falling from playground equipment to explain the effects of falling off playground equipment.
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What is Energy?

For Students 8th - 12th
In this energy activity, students will determine if 7 examples represent kinetic energy or potential energy. Then students will study an illustration of a child coming down a slide and answer 5 energy questions based on the illustration.
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Animation Flip Books

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students investigate examples of animation made from a flipbook technique in order to learn how to create their own flipbook and to learn how this process looks like an animated cartoon. In this animation instructional activity, students...
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Our Sense Organs And Their Uses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sense organs instructional activity, students determine facts about our sense organs and their uses. Students write fifteen multiple choice, true and false, and fill in the blank answers.
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Sportswriting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students complete a variety of activities (using the Washington Post Newspaper) that reinforce concepts involved in sports writing.
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HW Unit 10:2-Harmonic Motion

For Students 9th - 12th
In this harmonic motion worksheet, students answer 9 questions about pendulums, a slinky and characteristics of harmonic motion. They identify the changes in waves as the amplitude gets bigger and interpret a graph of position vs. time.
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PE Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use various ball skills to reinforce the names of the planets, their order in relation to the sun, and the revolving of the planets around the sun.
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Musical Rhythms

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students listen to music and bounce a tennis ball to the eat. Students close their eyes and listen to the rhythm. They switch hands on beats where they hear a new percussion sound. Students compose their own pieces using Oranga's band...