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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Observing Refraction of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from Shedding Light on Science illustrates how light changes speed, and thus direction, in a process known as refraction. Includes background reading and discussion questions. [2:05]
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Adapting to Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on adapting your speech to your audience including analyzing your audience using direct observation, interviews, surveys, or Likert rating scales and then apply knowledge about the audience to adjust the message...
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EL Education

El Education: A Field Guide to East Bog Swamp

For Teachers 5th - 6th
This micro-field guide was created by 5th and 6th graders in Marlboro, Vermont. Groups of 3 or 4 students worked together to investigate their own 3 by 3 foot research plot, over multiple visits, and then created a field guide to their...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Sleb Settlements, Sociopolitical Organization, Religion and Expressive Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Sleb camps are currently small and scattered, sometimes even consisting of a single family, with one or two tents. In the nineteenth century, however, camps of fifteen to twenty-five tents, with twenty to thirty families per tent, were...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Chillin' With Colored Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners work with ice cubes and different colored paper to develop observations in order to prove energy can be transferred from one object to another. Resources include videos of the lesson plan in action, examples of student work, and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Sun and Planets

For Students 6th - 8th
Observe the sun and the rotation of the planets in this moving image from NASA. Observe the axial tilts and directional rotation of planets and how they differ for each planet. Be sure to read the background information on how planets...
Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Docsteach: The School Lunch Program and the Federal Government

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will draw upon the visual and textual data presented in photographs and documents to gain an understanding of how the federal school lunch program is a direct result of the Great Depression, how it became a permanent part of the...
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Dc Converter and Electrical Storage for Shake a Gen

For Students 9th - 10th
This simple device uses a few components to rectify the alternating current (AC) from the shake-a-gen, store it in a capacitor and convert it into a steady direct current (DC). The output can be used to run a low power device. It is also...

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