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Mapping Animal Behavior

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use stickers and graph paper to map cricket movement.
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Squirrel Challenge

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students utilize The Nature Park Adventure educational software program to Introduce Modelling, Including the Estimation of Angles.
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Bridges: Local, National and Global Connections

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the role of bridges in commerce and transportation. They create a schedule for building a bridge and how much money it would take to build one.
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Growing Corn

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a Venn diagram of different soil types. They plant cord seeds in clay, sand, and fertile black soils are record their growing rates. After two weeks they discuss the effects of soil types on the growth process.
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Testing the Hypothesis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars create and conduct various experiments to determine the origin of a family artifact, and then determine whether their results were successful. Students summarize their results and evaluate whether their hypotheses were...
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The Effects of Ultra-Violet Light on Yeast

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work in small groups collecting and analyzing data as they learn how to best grow yeast. This lesson allows students to conduct several student-created experiments as they continually generate questions and hypotheses. ...
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Streamflow

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss the topic of streamflow and how it occurs. They take measurements and analyze them. They interpret data and create their own charts and graphs.
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TE Activity: Built to Last?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders test the shelters that were built in a prior activity. They determine the level of durability and water resistance of these shelters through a scientific investigation.
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Cardiovascular Homeostasis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop and conduct an experiment to answer the question," How does cardiovascular exercise affect the pulse rate?". They record the changes to heart rate during different levels of exercise.
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Soil Organisms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work together to collect soil samples from different locations. In the samples, they identify the macroorganisms and classify them. They identify the conditions that affect how macroorganisms grow. They also analyze and identify...
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Bird Populations

For Teachers 7th - 12th
students study bird migratory patterns and the methods that researchers use to study them. Students are introduced to the concepts of the study of bird movements.The skill of scientific questioning is used to find results.
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Classroom Science Fair Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the skills and information needed to complete a science fair project. They follow guidelines to create an document their science fair project.
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Plants

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the specific needs, characteristics, and uses of plants. They discuss the needs of plants as they grow. Students observe plants in various settings as they grow and note the changes they see.
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Graphing Your Motion-Day 1

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the concepts of motion, velocity and acceleration through graphing their own movement using LoggerPro. They become more familiar with the computer technology. Students explore graphing in real time and graph on...
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Bungee Man Lab

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the motion of a toy bungee jumper using the scientific method. They view a video of a bungee jumper and discuss what can be measured about a bungee jump. Students discuss the scientific mehtod and how to design an...
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Secret Agents of Dissolved Oxygen

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars determine the changes in different types of water in a sealed container over time. They investigate how to measure dissolved oxygen, temperature, and carbon dioxide with calculator or computer probe-ware. Students...
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Coulomb's Law

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders observe the relationship between electrical charge and force.  In this electrical charge lesson students experiment and find the quantitative relationship between force and the center to center distance between objects.
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Hormone-Induced Plant Propagation Lab using Carrot Root Cultures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students evaluate the importance of hormones in living things. In this biology lesson plan, students experiment on carrots to differentiate how humans and plants reproduce. They collect data from experiment to answer analysis questions.
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Investigation of Timbre

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design an experiment to analyze the timbre of different instruments. For this physics lesson, students analyze the missing quality in sound. They discuss their results in class.

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