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Desert Adaptations: Water

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students experiment with methods of water conservation. In this water conservation instructional activity, students explore the importance of water for plants and animals in a desert biome.
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Understanding Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explain why we fly. In this space science lesson, 5th graders discuss Bernoulli's prinicple and its relation to flight.
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Utah Archaeology

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study past cultures of those who made areas of Utah their home by exploring the artifacts these cultures left behind. Students will explore different types of fossils and learn that fossils are evidences of past life.
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Decision Making

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study weather patterns and learn to make decisions based on the weather. In this weather instructional activity, students plan a potluck based on the weather. Students use a decision tree to brainstorm about the activity....
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Layering the Air

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the layer of the atmosphere. In this instructional activity on the atmosphere, students discuss the composition of the air around us and how the atmosphere was formed. Students create a scale model of the layers of the...
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Water Wise

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students calculate their family's water consumption. In this water usage lesson, students discuss the water they use in their homes. Students complete the 'water wise' worksheets to tally their family's use of water. Students answer...
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A Coastal Arctic Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a food web of the arctic ecosystem. In this biology lesson, students explain how global warming affects this ecosystem. They explain how losing a species affects the entire community.
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Floating Pencil

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students discover how salt water makes a pencil float better than freshwater by measuring and comparing the lengths of the portion of the pencil that floats above the water surface. They then determine if an unknown water sample is...
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What is the Function of Each Seed Part in the Growth of a Plant

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the parts of a seed by using a digital camera.  In this botany instructional activity, 6th graders plant their own seeds in class and demonstrate the necessary attributes for growing a plant.  Students...
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Fire!, Probability, and Chaos

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the concept of probability. In this probability instructional activity, students simulate a controlled forest burn using an applet. Students vary the probability of trees burning and predict what will happen.
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Finding the Average Temperature

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students calculate averages. In this average temperature lesson, students collect data and use their problem solving skills to calculate average temperatures.
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Potential and Kinetic Energy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore potential and kinetic energy. In this science lesson, 6th graders assume the role of a roller coaster engineer and design a roller coaster. Students use their knowledge of kinetic and potential energy to design a...
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Rising Waters

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders rank balls by size from smallest to largest and from lightest to heaviest and then by how much they made the water rise. They then discuss why certain balls make the water rise higher than do other balls.
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Lab Report Template

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a paragraph (complete sentences) which explains what they did in the lab.
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Unknown Liquids

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners must design and conduct an experiment to determine which unknown liquid has a greater density based on basic information about the liquids and containers. Students are given specific materials to work with.
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Walking on Frozen Ground

For Teachers K - 4th
Students listen to an Elder speak about permafrost structures in their area. In this permafrost lesson plan, students listen to the guest speaker, take a tour outside to view permafrost structures, and draw them.
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THE SCIENCE OF MUMMIES

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how new advancements in technology can lead to advancements in scientific knowledge, and specifically how new technologies are advancing the study of mummies.
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Sand in Bottles

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate the speed of bottles as they roll down a ramp with varying amounts of sand inside. Using their data, 8th graders estimate speed of three labeled bottles with different amounts of sand and compare those results...
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Science Experiments - The Low-down

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover the process thinking about science experiments, and why they are important. They work in small groups using incline planes and a small toy car to design one scientific question that can be answered through...
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Denser Sensor

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders calculate density, compare densities of solids and liquids, measure liquids using a balance, and investigate the significance of density. They conduct an experiment to determine an order of densities, and complete a...
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Open-Ended Scientific Method Lab

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students inspect a given problem and come up with a hypothesis. In this investigative lesson students come up with a hypothesis for a problem, test each hypothesis and evaluate how successful each one was. 
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ReQuest and Motor Imaging with My Side of the Mountain

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read "My Side of the Mountain." They create a pantomime using vocabulary words from the story. Students create three questions about the reading. They discuss the passage they read and act out words to help them better...
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Cultural Impact of Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the Jim Crow laws and how they impacted the lives of both African Americans and white Americans. They discuss the Civil Rights Movement and how their lives may have been different had it not occurred. Groups...
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Mystery Cemetary: Teachers

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pupils examine and analyze the skeletons of various bodies that could represent a cemetary. In groups, they identify a set of common characteristics in which the skeletons are grouped. To end the lesson, they answer questions related...

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