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What's Out There? Space Shuttle Exploration and Simulation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students role-play the jobs of space shuttle astronauts, conduct experiments, and research space using the Internet and offline experiments. Student-astronauts hold a "press conference" to share their information with others in a...
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Adventures in Exploration

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research major explorers in history using their textbook and then create a timeline using Timeline Software. Students participate in class discussions and write an essay about the explorer they researched.
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Limpet Shell Exercise

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review the terms and concepts: evolution, selection, biotic, and abiotic factors. They come up with hypotheses about limpet shell types based on what we discuss about intertidal environments. Students use ratios to compare...
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Feeling Pressured

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore pressure in our atmosphere. They examine the relationship between pressure and depth. Students construct an experimental apparatus and take measurements. Students evaluate the impact of pressure on the lungs.
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Why Do Things Fall?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science worksheet, learners complete a paragraph using 15 given terms. For example, "How can a spring be used to measure force?"
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Conditional Statements and Converses

For Students 9th
In this conditional statements and converses worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 10 various types of statements as instructed. First, they identify the hypothesis and conclusion of the conditional statement given. Then, students...
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Large Numbers- the Planets

For Students 4th - 8th
In this writing distances worksheet, students re-write the chart to show the distance each planet sits from the sun using words rather than numbers, all measurements are in km.
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Large Numbers- Reasoning Worksheet

For Students 5th
In this large number reasoning worksheet, 5th graders use numbers in the hundred thousands and millions as the reason the answers to 5 problems. They explain their work and describe how they made decisions when finding answers.
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Exploring the Planets

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the planets through an interactive web site. In this astronomy based instructional activity, 6th graders compare planets, explore comets, and discover planet facts through a variety of activities provided by the...
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Influential Scientists Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this influential scientists learning exercise, students read the definitions of 19 science professions. From 4 choices, students choose the correct name of the job that fits the definition. Example: studies birds (ornithologist).
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Knowledge Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
In this oceans quiz activity, students complete a 10 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of concepts related to the ocean.
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Weather & Climate; Knowledge Quiz

For Students 5th - 7th
In this weather and climate quiz worksheet, students complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions covering a variety of concepts related to climate and weather.
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The Milky Way and Beyond

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students consider the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy. In this Milky Way lesson, students hypothesize the length of time necessary to cross the Milky Way.
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Native American Legends, Folk Stories and Tales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write an Indian tale explaining a natural event, an animal characteristic,
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Finding Out About the Stars and Planets

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils complete a web-based activity to study the planets and solar system. Students complete a number of activities including a slide show that depict the true facts about planets.
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Keeping Warm

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in an online activity to determine how objects heat and cool. They determine what objects best serve as thermal insulators.
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Pushes and Pulls

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students recognize different types of movement and causes that my affect the movement. They know that pushes and pulls are types of forces.
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Habitats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an online lesson to determine that different plants and animals are found in different habitats. They use food chains to show feeding relationships in a habitat, and see that nearly all food chains start with a...
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Solids and liquids

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate melting and cooling in a range of materials.
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Plants and Animals in the Local Environment

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize the different types of plants and animals living in a local environment. They determine how they require different habitats to live, and relate simple life processes to plants and animals found in local environments.
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Using Electricity

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students name appliances that use electricity. They construct a simple electrical circuit. They predict whether a circuit work. They name components of an electrical circuit.
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Keeping Healthy

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students exercise their muscles to explore concept of heart rate and to explain how blood supplies muscles with oxygen.
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Magnets and Springs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners participate in an online lesson making and recording observations of magnets. They determine that magnets attract some metals but not others and that other materials are not attracted to magnets.
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Light and Shadows

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in an online lesson to determine how light travels from a source, and to explain that shadows form when light travelling from a source is blocked.

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