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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Learning From Leaves: From Observation to Inference [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A lesson plan in which students explore plants from three different ecosystems and make inferences about plant structures and their environments. Includes discussion questions, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating South Crow River: Discharge, Turbidity, Erosion, Sediments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this field investigation, small groups of students will observe and measure characteristics of the South Crow River near Mayer, Minnesota. Data collection on these characteristics will include but not be limited to: speed of current...
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National Institutes of Health

Alcohol: Separating Fact From Fiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use this site to observe the effects of alcohol on mice and discuss the ways in which alcohol harms and impairs the body. An online lesson, "Alcohol; Separating Fact From Fiction," has students watch video clips, engage in...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Question and Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial reviews over making observations to form questions and purpose for a lab experiment.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Blowing Up Balloons, Chemically

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will understand and apply the Law of Conservation of Matter; balance chemical equations; use the following skills: observing and recording data (observations) and making inferences from observations.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Making Observations and Inferences: Flashcards

For Students 6th
A set of vocabulary practice flashcards over observations and inferences.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Making Observations and Inferences: Match

For Students 6th
Play this match game with four vocabulary terms and definitions over making observations.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Boiling Water With Ice: Effect of Pressure on the Boiling Point of Water

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, which is a discrepant event with guided inquiry, the teacher will go through the steps of boiling water with ice. Through the young scholars telling and recording WHAT is happening, the teacher is showing the students...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Floating Foods and Underwater Eruptions: An Exploration of Density

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the concept of density by investigating how several solids and liquids interact. Through hands-on activities and a teacher demonstration, they develop a greater understanding of density by using their observational...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Mousie [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
"Mousie" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy who caught, tamed, and learned about mice using a scientific method. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Descriptive vs. Comparative Investigations

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following lesson students will learn the differences between descriptive and comparative investigations.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Fable and Trickster Tales Around the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The lessons presented in this website "introduce children to folk tales" and how these folktales are changed and affected by generational and cultural values. Includes several links to further related information on folktales, fables,...
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Other

Catching Sunshine

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers can enroll their class in this online 'Science-athon.' Students design and build a solar collector, and over a period of several days, collect data and enter it into an online database.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Difference in Geology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this inquiry based field investigation, students will be observing our school campus's topography, soil, and plants and comparing them with the Fertile sand dunes' topography, soil, and plants. They will make detailed observations and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Old Is That Thing on That Rock?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students using magnifying glasses to observe collected fossils, and then make inferences and hypotheses about the age of the specimens.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Igneous Rocks Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use samples of four different types of igneous rocks to observe differences in texture, color, and grain size, and then make inferences about the relative cooling histories and silica content associated with each magma type.
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McREL International

Mc Rel: Glue Polymer (Whelmer #15 Learning Activity)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates the basic principles behind chemical bonding. The activity is written in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Scientific Laws and Theories

For Students 6th - 8th
Differentiate between scientific laws and theories. Identify examples of scientific theories and use evidence to support them.
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Quia

Quia: Nature of Science Scientific Method Concentration

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play a game of concentration by matching terms used in the scientific method to their proper description.
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Quia

Quia: Nature of Science Scientific Method Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 8th
Review the nature of science with on-line flash cards.
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Quia

Quia: Nature of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Find games and flashcards that students can use to learn the words associated with the scientific method.

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