Lesson Plan
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Ships 2: What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design, build, and test the specifications (water displacement and load line) for a model boat. The lesson focuses especially on integrating design principles with inquiry-based experimental skills.
Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Determine Volume of Solids Using Water Displacement

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore math functions by completing math equation worksheets. In this inequality activity, students define a list of math terms and discuss the difference between an equation and inequality. Learners utilize a real life...
Lesson Plan
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Marvelous Marbles

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners predict the change in water volume when adding marbles to a graduated cylinder. In this Chemistry lesson plan, students will need to make accurate water measurements to determine the fluid displaced by the marbles. The learners...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Respiratory System

For Students 8th - 9th
In this respiratory system learning exercise, students compare how much air a person can typically exhale in one breath as compared to others. Then they develop a questionnaire to test their subjects and respond to the questions proposed.