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Air Pressure
Students get a better understanding of air pressure and how it effects our daily lives.
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Guess What?! (a lesson about atoms)
Students investigate atoms as particles that make up all matter. They examine the mass of matter.
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Conductive Heat Transfer Experiments
Students conduct a variety of experiments to see how heat is transferred using common household objects. The teacher uses the safety plans included in the lesson plan. This is ideal for inexperienced Science teachers.
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Black Hawk Island Hike
Students explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...
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Blends Word Search
In this language arts worksheet, students examine a word bank with 40 words which contain consonant blends. Students locate the words in a word search puzzle.
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Word Choice: Lose and Loose
In this word choice instructional activity, students fill in blanks in a set of 20 sentences with the appropriate choice: lose or loose. Online version link available.
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Observations and Inferences
Students observe how to distinguish observations form inferences. In this examining inferences lesson students list observations relating to the activity and discuss the importance of them.
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Air...What Gives?
Learners investigate the properties of air by capturing it, squeezing it, and feeling its weight. In this forces instructional activity, students capture bags of air and examine its properties. The weight and pressure of air is emphasized.
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Guess What?!
Students explore how scientists work. In this scientific method lesson, students use their senses to identify objects they cannot see. Students are asked to think like scientists and make observations, comparisons, and interferences, as...
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Washoe Indians: Dat-so-la-lee
Students study the life and crafts of Washoe Indian, Dat-so-la-lee. In this Washoe Indians activity, students read and study the life of Washoe Indian basket weaver Dat-so-la-lee. Students study images of her crafts and discuss the...
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The Breakfast Table
In this vocabulary interactive worksheet, students type the eight names of the utensils displayed in the illustration and complete an eight word word scramble.
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Air Pressure
Students investigate the basic principles of air pressure. In this experimental lesson students use materials to create several different experiments that help to explain air pressure and friction.
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Create Your Own Cloud
Students explore and analyze weather conditions, climates, compositions and characteristics of the atmosphere and weather patterns. They explain in detail the water cycle and its relationship to weather patterns. A lab experiment is...
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The Chemistry of Fire and Other Oxidation Reactions
High schoolers explore the process of combustion.
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Sounds You See, Hear, and Feel
Middle schoolers explore and create sound wave vibrations using musical instruments and common objects. They compare/contrast and describe actions that cause sound wave vibrations that can be seen, heard, and felt.
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Understanding Waves
Students perform 3 hands-on activities to help them explain the terms "crest" and "trough" as related to sound, water, and light waves. All three waves types have troughs and crests. The activities use toys to demonstrate the properties...