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Making Life Easier
Learners use a chart of the six simple machines and become aware of how the machines improve our ability to meet the following needs: shelter, food, water, and transportation. Students use model cars to experiment with force. They divide...
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Snow Goggles And Limiting Sunlight
Students build snow goggles similar to those used by the Inuit people. They create their version of the goggles to improve upon existing designs. Pupils compare the process used to invent snow goggles with that employed by the MESSENGER...
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Scaled Rubber Band Drawings
Students demonstrate the process of creating a scaled rubber band enlargement of a simple drawing. They observe and discuss a teacher-led demonstration, and create a scaled rubber band enlargement of simple drawings and their invention...
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How Do Veterinarians Use Technology?
Third graders examine and discuss ways veterinarians use technology to care for pets throughout their lives, including high-tech equipment, and invent new tool or machine that would help veterinarians keep one type of pet healthy and safe.
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Genetics 5 Technology
Young scholars, after studying extraction and gel electrophoresis, recombinant DNA, transgenic organisms, and reproductive cloning, summarize the main concepts in DNA technology. They analyze the applications of DNA: forensics, medicine,...
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Celestial Characters
Young scholars read myths and legends about celestial bodies, compare cultural perceptions of celestial personalities, represent "character" of sun, moon, clouds, or stars, and invent their own stories about their chosen celestial...
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Every Day Edit - The Fabulous Frisbee
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the invention of the frisbee. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Mercury and Venus
Students learn about the characteristics of the planets Mercury and Venus. In this planets lesson plan, students learn about these planets and their differences from Earth. They also learn how the inventions of engineers have made it...
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Where We've Been and Where We're Going
Young scholars travel with Christa McAuliffe through space demonstrations. In this space lesson, students follow through the past to the present air travel. Young scholars understand the benefits and problems associated with zero gravity...
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Career Advice
Students consider animal welfare-related careers. In this career lesson, students examine non-traditional careers as they research careers that promote animal welfare. Students study the career of John Walsh who invented the idea of...
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Portrait of a Year
Young scholars design a montage of digital images about a specific year. In this digital image research lesson, students choose a specific year in history that they would like to investigate. They search the Internet for images of things...
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Vocabulary Building Activity Grade 1
In this recognizing vocabulary words worksheet, students review the words oh, on, do, she, and color by writing them from dictation, unscrambling them, identifying them in rows of inventive spelled words, and identify the correctly...
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Save the Earth: It's Everyone's Home!
Students demonstrate how to make earth-smart choices. In this environmental awareness lesson, students listen to a short lecture on environmentally friendly products. Students invent an environmentally friendly product and complete an...
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Create a Composition
Students select an instrument and create a musical composition. In this musical composition lesson, students invent an original piece of music that is 16 measures long. Students hum and record their pieces.
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Paper or Plastic: Exploring Renewable Resources.
Students discuss, develop, invent, and implement a plan for making informed personal economic decisions about renewable resources.
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East Meets West Quiz
In this East meets West quiz worksheet, 8th graders answer 30 questions in 6 rounds of the quiz, about geography, inventions, religions, art, schools and language with questions written in Chinese and English, including maps,...
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Health Enhancement Traditional Games
Fourth graders participate in Tribal games. In this tribal nations lesson, 4th graders play games that help improve on the physical skills for survival, invention, and problem solving. They discuss what is needed for survival and how...
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Energy: merit badge
For this energy worksheet, students answer short answer questions about energy, conservation, and inventions. Students complete 8 questions to get their merit badge.
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Inventor's Workshop
Learners explore the six simple machines that are the basis for all mechanical devices. In this physics lesson, students choose one simple machine to research and then find a complex machine it is apart of. Learners examine Leonardo...
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Writing the Wind
Students make a windmill. In this wind lesson, students learn background information about the windmill, complete an activity where they create a windmill, discuss using wind as a natural resource and brainstorm other inventions...
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Ancient Mediterranean Lands: Greece
Sixth graders explore the processes developed by the Ancient Greeks, particularly olives and olive oil. In this Greek culture and inventions lesson, 6th graders read an article and design a flap book. Students collect the olive oil...
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Electrifying Franklin
Fourth graders research and present information about Benjamin Franklin's life and accomplishments. In this lesson on Benjamin Franklin, 4th graders review idioms and sayings written by Franklin then compare and contrast his various...
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Sounding Out, Alien Word Game
Students invent words using a set of letters. For this Alien word lesson, students determine if the letters made a real word. Students record problem words in an activity log.
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Move It! With Simple Machines
Students explore engineering by participating in a mechanical class activity. In this simple machines lesson plan, students identify many simple machines that allow them to perform tasks easily each day. Students collaborate in small...
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