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Lesson Plan
California Department of Education

What Are My Options?

For Teachers 10th Standards
Where do I go from here? Start sophomores off on the right path using an activity designed with the future in mind. The final lesson in a five-part career readiness series helps individuals decide what's important to them before they...
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Lesson Plan
Pace University

Volume and Capacity

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Differentiated instruction through leveled learning contracts boosts scholars' knowledge of volume and capacity. Participants split into three groups based on ability and interest before choosing three activities from their learning...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Volume of Irregular Objects

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders experiment using a Meniscus. In this volume lesson, 5th graders identify the volume of irregular objects using the process of water displacement. Students record data and draw conclusions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Biocomplexity Lab Activity: Permeability

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students identify how water moves through materials such as rocks or sand. Students measure the permeability of water through glass spheres to represent the movement of water in sand, an aquifer, or another sediment. During the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Measuring Density

For Students 9th - 12th
In this density worksheet, students answer 16 questions related to density. They read diagrams of graduated cylinders and determine the liquid's mass, volume and density. They find the density of objects and answer 3 questions about...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Volume

For Students 7th - 9th
In this reading volume worksheet, students are given 25 diagrams of graduated cylinders with a liquid in them. Students indicate the volume of each liquid in milliliters.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Conservation

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore types of water reserves. For this water conservation lesson, students brainstorm ways water are used in their homes. Students use a graduated cylinder to simulate the amount of water on Earth and the amount that humans use.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Speed of Sound in Air

For Students 9th - 12th
In this speed of sound worksheet, students determine how fast sound travels in air using a tuning fork of known frequency, a graduated cylinder and hollow glass tubing. Students record their data and calculate the wavelength of a tuning...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Metric Meals

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate metric measurements. In this metric measurement lesson, 6th graders explore mass, capacity, and length. Students examine graduated cylinders and balance scales to obtain measurements. Resources are provided.
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Lesson Plan
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Consumer Fraud

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Falling into the hands of a credit scam is much too common these days, and the young adults in the classroom need to be prepared. Through the activity, learners discover how to be a safe spender and use common sense when presented with a...
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Tolerance

A Time for Justice

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
The Academy Award-winning documentary A Time for Justice launches a unit that examines America's civil rights movement. Class members examine key events and participants in the movement and consider how the civil rights movement changed...
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Interactive
PHET

Masses and Springs

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Have you ever stretched out a Slinkie so much it wouldn't go back to its original shape? Slinkies, like all springs, follow Hooke's Law. A simulation uses springs and masses to demonstrate kinetic, potential, and thermal energy. It...
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Science 4 Inquiry

Bubbles and Colors and Smells...Oh My!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A demonstration of elephant toothpaste hooks pupils' interest as they complete multiple experiments with colors, smells, bubbles, and more. By the end, they understand the differences between physical and chemical changes in the world...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Displaying Data

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students create a display map with data from a previous lesson. They incorporate graduated marks that identify areas of the school grounds that are good for planting based on density.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Unit Conversions 2

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders demonstrate the use of instruments of measurement. As a class, they take notes and observe the proper procedure for using a graduated cylinder, a ruler, and a balance/triple beam balance. In groups, 8th graders visit...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Students Suffocate Under Tens of Thousands in Loans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of student loans. In this student loans lesson, students read an article about the large amount of student loans today's students owe. Students discuss how higher loan payments and increased debt will affect...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Effects of Counseling on The Potential Drop-out

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders analyze information from students who have left school before graduation, and utilize the information as a strategy designated to lower the drop-out rate of the at-risk students. They design a rubric, create a web page, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Marvelous Marbles

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students predict the change in water volume when adding marbles to a graduated cylinder. In this Chemistry lesson plan, students will need to make accurate water measurements to determine the fluid displaced by the marbles. The students...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Comprehension: Your is Our Hope

For Students 4th - 6th
For this comprehension worksheet, learners read an excerpt from a graduation speech, the complete 11 questions, choose the correct completion word for sentences.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Other Faces of Discrimination

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the bullying experienced by those who graduated from one-room school houses to large high schools. In this discrimination lesson, students read the 2 provided handouts on the topic and then complete the included...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Inspiration Project

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore what is very relevant in their personal lives during this project. They reflect upon past experiences and are encouraged to investigate what their post-high school graduation plans are.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transformations of Energy

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the relationship between energy and matter, and measure the mass of various objects. They listen to a teacher-led lecture about potential energy, and in small groups measure the mass of various objects such...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measuring Density

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of density. They use the the formula Density = Mass/Volume, one can determine where certain liquids and objects will settle in a graduated cylinder. In addiiton, they design a process to separate the liquids.
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Website
University of North Carolina

Application Essays

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
There's a lot riding on good writing! Often, an application essay is the difference between acceptance and rejection. As part of a series on specific writing assignments and contexts, a handout helps scholars craft the perfect personal...

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