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NASA

Egg Drop Lander

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
You have to crack a few eggs to make a good engineer! Working in small groups, young scholars design, build, and test devices that protect an egg from breaking when dropped from a ladder.
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Classifying Objects

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in small groups to sort and classify a variety of objects. They develop criteria for sorting and explain the characteristics they chose for classification. Groups record and share their classifications.
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Which Objects Will Sink or Float?

For Teachers 1st
First graders work in cooperative groups and utilize a variety of materials to test objects ability to sink or float. In this sink or float lesson, 1st graders discover why some object sink and others float. Students will graph results...
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Math: Odd Object Out

For Teachers K
Students discover how to classify and categorize items by sorting various objects. As they sort the items, they explain how the items are alike. By repeating the sorting procedure several times, students determine there are numerous...
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Surprise Object

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition practice activity, students solve 12 problems that require them to add using 2 and 3-digit numbers. Students use their answer to reveal a mystery word and respond to a questions regarding grouping.
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Teaching Inference with Trash and Mystery Objects

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice solving mysteries and using inference skills by digging through trash.  In this problem solving lesson, students investigate groups of garbage to determine what type of person the garbage belonged to....
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The Smallest Object

For Students K - 1st
In this smallest object worksheet, students identify the smallest item in each group of pictures. There are two groups of four items on this worksheet. Students may color the pictures.
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Moving Objects

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate pushing and pulling. In this lesson plan on how objects move, 2nd graders experiment with marbles to see how one marble can be moved by getting hit by another marble.
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Crystals: Geometry and Groups

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss the importance of examining crystals and experiment growing them. In groups, they complete a project in which they use groups in geometry just like crystallographers. They practice solving the groups and proofs and...
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Movement of Objects

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate motion. In this science activity, 9th graders conduct experiments on objects to analyze motion and speed. They define motion in everyday life.
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Beginning Division: Divide Into Groups

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this beginning division worksheet, students draw circles around groups shown, dividing sets of objects. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Lucky Guess (Group Tricks)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students work in groups to complete movement activities. In this movement and cooperation instructional activity, students get into groups and complete movement band skill cards with varying levels of difficulty.
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Geography: Lengths, Perimeter, and Area of Similar Objects

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore characteristics of similar objects. Using attribute blocks, they explore the ratios of the perimeter, area and side length in similar shapes. They calculate and compare the area of shapes.
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Counting the Kittens

For Students Pre-K - K
In this counting worksheet, students analyze a group of kitten pictures. There are two kinds of kittens. Students count how many of each kind there are and write the totals.
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The Largest Object

For Students Pre-K - K
In this visual discrimination worksheet, students examine pictures of an object. All pictures are of the same thing but are in different sizes. Students color the largest object in each group. There are 3 questions.
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Center for Learning in Action

Properties of Balls

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Enhance your states of matter lessons with a hands-on science investigation that compares six different balls' color, texture, size, weight, ability to bounce, and buoyancy. 
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LABScI

Conservation of Momentum: Marble Collisions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What happens to the momentum of an object when it strikes another object? Scholars roll a marble down a ramp so it collides with another marble. By measuring the speed of each marble before and after the collision, pupils answer this...
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Kinematics: The Gravity Lab

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Falling objects can be brutal if you don't protect your noodle! Scholars explore the motion of falling objects through measuring short intervals to determine if the distance traveled varies with time. Building off of this, scholars...
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Catapult: Flight of the Marshmallows

For Students 6th - 12th
Watch your marshmallows fly. The engaging STEM activity has groups create a catapult to launch marshmallows. After testing their prototypes, they consider improvements and redesign their catapults.
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App
One Billion

Math, Age 3-5

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Jump start children's math education with this fun basic skills resource. Offering dozens of different touch-and-swipe activities with colorful graphics, this program is perfect for all young learners.
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Acoustics: The Sound Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If the delay between a sound and its echo is less than 1/10th of a second, the human ear can’t distinguish it. Through the use of a Slinky, rubber band guitar, and straws, scholars explore where sound comes from and how it travels....
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Origami Flight: The Physical Setting

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the forces that move certain objects.  In this physics lesson, 6th graders design and create paper flying objects using origami methods, which they practice flying in different conditions.  Students...
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Could the Solar System have Ten Planets?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students react to statements about the solar system, then read a news article about a recently discovered object that could be another planet. In this space science and current events lesson, the teacher introduces the lesson with a...
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The Shadow Knows: Student Worksheet

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this math worksheet, learners will work in small groups to measure the height of objects, such as trees, using their shadows. Students will be able to determine heights of objects that cannot be directly measured.

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