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PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which learners identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: News Is Knowledge! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The project provides teachers with ideas to create literacy centers for use in their own classrooms using student-friendly newspapers from various curricular areas. We will provide plans that can be used to adapt the materials each week....
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mechanics Mania

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Through ten lessons and numerous activities, students explore the natural universal rules engineers and physicists use to understand how things move and stay still. Together, these rules are called "mechanics." The study of mechanics is...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Biodynamic Farming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this module students learn about biodynamic farming through hands-on activities that culminate in having multiple schools collaborate to design subsystems that are combined to make a working aquaponic system. During the SAGE...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Distributions and Graphs Using Cooperative Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using cooperative learning methods, this lesson introduces distributions for univariate data, emphasizing how distributions help us visualize central tendencies and variability. Students collect real data on head circumference and hand...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Touch and Feel: Plant Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This introductory lesson centers on getting hands-on before getting drug into the vocabulary and nomenclature. In cooperative learning groups students will describe leaves in simple terms. Then, students will use various resources for...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Arthropod Diversity and Evolution an After School Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website provides information required for a hands-on program that enables students to work alongside active museum curators, postdoctoral researchers, and collection managers. The programs will teach students to identify, classify,...