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Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a culmination activity used after learners have studied Bernoulli's Principle as part of a unit on forces and fluids. Students will use the Internet, textbooks, library resources and their cooperative learning group to design...
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Alex: Pump Up the Volume

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
In this lesson, students will be required to generate a formula for volume of a rectangular prism. Students working in cooperative groups will use prior knowledge for finding area of a rectangle to determine the "amount of area in a...
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Alex: Cosmic Measurements

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students will use hands on inquiry in cooperative learning groups to understand, develop and analyze common measurements used by astronomers. Students will use common objects such as straws, twizzlers, or...
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Alex: Get It Straight Mr. Decimal!

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Young scholars will review addition and subtraction of decimals with a hands-on, cooperative small group experience. They will be placed in small groups and solve problems on individual whiteboards. This lesson plan was created as a...
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Alex: As Large as Life a Poster of a Human Body System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a student led exploration of the systems of the human body through art and self-expression. Groups will cooperatively develop a poster, the size of a fifth-grade student, and will accurately depict the assigned system of the...
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Alex: Freezing Things: States of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The class will go back over the Power Point presentation on chemical and physical properties. The teacher will then conduct numerous liquid nitrogen demos. This lesson is used early in the Chemistry course. The students love it. This...
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Alex: How Light Travels

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this instructional activity, the students will be experimenting to show how light shines in a straight line. They will also be experimenting to see how light reflects using mirrors. The students will be working in cooperative learning...