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More Power to You

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a simple galvanometer in order to detect the presence of an electric current as well as determine the amount of the current. Activity is divided into two parts, first part as group work and second as individual.
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Investigating Fingerprints

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars study the individuality of fingerprints. In this fingerprint lesson, students determine that each person has a unique set of fingerprints. They rub their fingertips with soft pencil lead and rub the print off on a piece of...
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What Do Soils Have to Do With Me?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this identifying ways we use soils every day worksheet, students investigate their houses, home environment, clothing labels, and foods to see what was made from things grown in soils. Students write 5 short answers.
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Mysterious Plot Problems

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Students explore the plot of mystery books. In this genre study lesson, students read the book, Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy and listen to a read aloud of a chapter from the text. Students fill in a graphic organizer that helps...
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The Deadly Picnic: A Lab on Deductive Reasoning

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Whodunnit? Find out who killed Mr. Brooks through a logical examination of evidence. Class members fill out a couple of data tables to help them pin down the suspect. After they've figured out just who the culprit is, pupils compose...
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Litter Detectives

For Teachers K - 5th
Students develop a positive attitude against littering by creating solutions to help reduce littering.
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Sound Detective

For Teachers K
Students determine whether a sound is in the beginning,
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Detecting Magnetic Materials in "Martian" Soil

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students simulate some of the Pathfinder experiments by devising methods of collecting and measuring magnetic substances in pseudo-Martian soil. The efficiency of each of the methods used to collect materials is evaluated in this lesson.
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Functions and Graphs -- Pattern Detection #2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine a graph made by archaeologists. In groups, they discuss the role of the size of the animals and how that affects the graph. They compare and contrast the size of animals killed by people 10,000 years ago and 8000...
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House and Holmes: A Guide to Deductive and Inductive Reasoning

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Test your pupils' reasoning skills with several activities and a quick mystery to solve. Learners watch and analyze a few video clips that demonstrate reasoning in action, practice deduction with an interactive and collaborative...
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Exploratorium

Indicating Electrolysis

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Sure, your learners know water is made up of two molecules, but watching them separate helps the class see the construction like never before. This resource provides directions on how to build a simple electrolysis device using a...
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PBS

How to Teach Your Students about Fake News

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What media literacy skills do people need to evaluate a news source? Scholars listen to and discuss an NPR story about how fake headlines often dupe young people and adults alike. Next, they study news stories, using a fact-checking...
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A Teacher's Guide to The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
"What should we have for dinner?" "What am I eating?" "Where did it come from?" These three questions are at the heart of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Pollan's book provides some very...
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Mathematics of Image Processing

For Students 10th - 11th
In this mathematics of image processing learning exercise, students solve 10 various types of problems related to image processing on a computer. They type in all the commands listed and figure out what is going on. Then, students...
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Using Spectrophotometers to Examine Photosynthetic Rates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine how photosynthetic rates can change by using different qualities of light. They practice using spectrophotometer and the scientific method to detect the absorbance values in light treatments.
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Living with Benefits and Risks

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this radioisotopes instructional activity, students determine which radioisotopes are used to detect cancers and look at how radiation exposure influences health. This instructional activity has 4 fill in the blank and 14 short answer...
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Mysterious Plot Problems

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Learners solve 3 riddles given by the teacher and discuss how solving a mystery is like solving a riddle. In this language arts lesson, students watch as the teacher records problems in a detective story. Learners record questions...
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Birdman or Birdbrain

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students become history detectives as they research, and later discuss, various theories about Rapa Nui. They study written language using symbols and create their own symbol language.
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Old Photographs: Windows to the Past

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine several types of old photographs and compare them to photography today. Students search for historical photographs and draw conclusions about the time period from the subject matter. Students explain how a camera...
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Understanding Bias

For Students 6th - 9th
In this understanding bias worksheet, students read about bias and they detect bias in given paragraphs. They determine if the writer conveys the information with bias or not.
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Atmospheric Shielding from Radiation I

For Students Higher Ed
In this radiation worksheet, students calculate the distance of a satellite in orbit to determine the placement of a radiation detection device. This worksheet has 2 problems to solve.
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How To Make Faint Things Stand Out In a Bright World!

For Students 9th - 12th
In this averaging and pixel learning exercise, learners solve 5 problems including finding the average value of 9 images given pixels, distinguishing between background 'noise' and the source and detecting faint sources in bright...
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Voice Trait: Who Is Talking?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners recognize the difficulty of knowing who wrote a letter from the envelope. For this writing "voice" lesson, students understand the meaning of voice in writing and detect who the writers are in a worksheet.
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Stressed Out!

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars identify methods for detecting and locating earthquakes and analyzing seismic data.  In this earthquake lesson students simulate the action of P and S waves. 

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