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You Can Do It: Creating How-To Videos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create instructional videos. in this video lesson, students choose a subject area and topic to make their own how-to video. They research this topic and film their video using a flip-camera. 
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Group and Periodic Properties Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners observe and perform experiments with sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur ,and phosphorus. The discover trends down groups, across periods, and having to do with the pH of metal oxides vs. nonmetal oxides.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Elements Metals, Nonmetals and Metalloids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate several properties of the given elements and decide whether each element is a metal, non-metal, or a metalloid.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Patterns: An Introduction to Mendeleev

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate a puzzle. They are given a set of cards with various properties. Each card has anywhere from 2 to 6 different properties depending on the level of the students and each set of cards has one or two...