Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Physical Science: Gravity Gets You Down
In this lesson, students make predictions about falling objects of different sizes and masses to learn about gravity and air resistance. Includes audio vocabulary list and extension activities.
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Teach With Movies: Lesson Plans Based on Shorts and Clips
Links to many video-clip based lessons in the areas of health, English language arts & drama, mathematics, music, biology, earth science, inventions, astronomy, physics, chemistry, U.S. history and culture, and world history and...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: What's in My Soil? [Pdf]
Lesson plan engages students to separate, examine and identify the major components of soil to better understand how these components give soil its unique physical characteristics.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education
This site from Digital Library for Earth System Education provides materials for students and teachers on a huge array of topics. Search site by topic, grade level, and desired output (such as lesson plan, case study, assessment or...
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Hstry: Roller Coaster Design Brief Template
Interactive site by STEM teacher Mariana Garcia-Serrato in a lesson on physics in which students design, budget for and analyze their own roller coasters.
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Western Reserve Public Media: Math & Science Gumbo: Bake Shop
In these two lessons, students use pretzels and balloons to learn about reversible and non-reversible physical and chemical changes.
University of Arizona
Pulse: From Global to City Air: Air Quality, City Design and Disease
Students are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object. Why not? Because everything in the universe behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time....