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Alex: The Sound and Sense of Langston Hughes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate poetry form as they research the life of Langston Hughes. They perform the lyrics of his poetry, participate in a distance learning program from Cleveland Institute of Music, and produce computer-generated...
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Alex: Incline Plane and the Crashing Marble

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners will measure the effects of the height of an inclined plane on the force a marble produces to move a plastic, foam, or paper cup across a table. Students will discover that the higher the incline plane, the more force produced...
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Alex: Ellipse

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed for an Algebra II through Pre-Calculus classes and introduces the conic section- an ellipse. In this lesson young scholars explore an ellipse, the set of points in a plane such that the sum of the distances from...