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Space Capsules:The Egg-stronaut Egg Drop

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students brainstorm the factors affecting the speed at which a space capsule reaches the surface of a planet or moon and suggest how engineers might deal with each factor. They then create a model which is dropped from a high point...
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Transformation of Energy: Heat

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate how heat is transferred and the concepts of conduction, convection, and radiation. They define key vocabulary terms, and observe teacher-led demonstrations of conduction, convection, and radiation.
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Activity Seven -- Picturing Particles (Student Page) A LAB Worksheet

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This activity lists background information for a lab on the topics of atom smashers, accelerators or colliders. It clearly states the Rules of the Game -- science laws that apply. Student do the lab and track their results in the given...
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The Rates of Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chemistry learning exercise, high schoolers complete a crossword puzzle with 25 questions on chemical reactions. They identify common terminologies used in describing chemical reactions.
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Turkeys and Feathers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game of tag while holding the position of turkey or feather. The turkey's are it and when they catch a feather they switch positions. Great for Thanksgiving.
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Math Challenge

For Teachers K - 5th
Students, using laminated math flash cards, play a review game with a partner. Also using Polyspots, they run, walk, or skip to the board with their answers.
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Energy Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how the blood flows and carries oxygent from the lungs to the heart and to the body to create energy after participating in chasing, fleeing and dodging activities. They actively move through an obstacle course...
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What is Heat Transfer?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore heat transfer and how it affects weather.
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Momentum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn the concepts of momentum and its conservation, using the recoil of a cannon as an example. They examine how momentum is a vector, allowing its conservation to be applied to problems in 2 and 3 dimensions.
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The Lunar and Terrestrial Tug of War

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, locate, comprehend, interpret, and evaluate information about celestial bodies that influence ocean tides on Earth. They apply this information through graphic representations.
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SOS!

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners examine natural and man-made threats to sea turtles. They create sea turtle mobiles while studying the range, environment, predators of and threats to sea turtles.
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Race and Genetics: An Integrated Approach

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze racial issues related to the Human Genome Project. They participate in a mock symposium and write a reflection/position paper based on specific ethical principals.
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Ramp and Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in an activity in which they observe a ball as it rolls down an incline into a cup. They take measurements and use equations that describe the concepts of mechanical energy, work and power, momentum, and friction. ...
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Geometry of Radio Meteor Reflections

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate and describe ways that human understanding of Earth and space has depended on technological development. They describe and interpret the science of optical and radio telescopes, space probes and remote sensing...
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Who Sunk the Titanic

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Pupils discuss possible reasons for the Titanic sinking. They are split into small groups to research a historical figure involved in the sinking of the Titanic. They formulate a way to prove their characters guilt or innocence. Students...
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Heat And Heat Transfer

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students role play molecules in a container as the container is heated to develop a definition of heat and temperature. They also observe demonstrations of conduction, convection, radiation, and phase transfer. Using these observations...
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Andrew Jackson

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Using the Internet, they research his decision to remove the Indians from their land and place them on reservations. They discuss the effects of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Energy Transformation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify different kinds of energy such as heat energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, and magnetic energy. They investigate the concept of conservation of energy.
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Letter and Word Scramble

For Teachers K - 4th
Students engage in a instructional activity designed to encourage the identification of letters and their characteristics, as well as moving them using a variety of locomotor skills. This done using the instructional strategy of playing...
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Error Correction/Editing Worksheets

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL spelling instructional activity, students will focus on error correction and editing. Students will read a short passage correcting any spelling mistakes or omissions from the article.
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Potential Energy Diagrams

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this reactions worksheet, students use graphs showing reaction progress to determine if the reaction is exothermic or endothermic, the activation energy, and the enthalpy of change. This worksheet has 1 graph, 7 short answer, and 16...
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Paragraphs

For Students 5th - 7th
In this paragraphs worksheet, students respond to 4 multiple choice questions by selecting the correct sentence that belongs in the paragraph from the 2 sentences given.
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Role of Energy in Reactions

For Students 10th - 12th
In this energy worksheet, learners determine the enthalpy of exothermic and endothermic reactions. This worksheet has 1 fill in the blank and 4 short answer questions.
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Marbles and Momentum

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the law of conservation of momentum. In this physics lesson, students play marbles in order to compare the mass of the marble and velocities effects. Students receive directions of the marbles game and collect data while...

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