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Pulse of Life
Students calculate their pulse rate and explore how heart rate is affected by various activities.
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Action, Please!
Students share their knowledge about aluminum and aluminum recycling by sharing the information with the rest of the community.
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Using Chopsticks
Students students practice using chopsticks and play a game to improve skills. They discuss what they experience.
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Earthquakes
Sixth graders explore reasons for earthquakes. They discuss and describe the types of faults. Using the internet, 6th graders research a specific location of a former earthquake. They describe the damage, magnitude, the epicenter,...
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Tempting Temperatures
Pupils use a thermometer to observe differences in temperature. In this measurement lesson, students use a thermometer to observe the differences in temperature that occur in a refrigerator and a freezer.
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Student Power Use
Learners calculate the energy usage in their bedroom. In this physics instructional activity, students compare their energy consumption during school days and weekends. They recommend ways to save energy.
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Fact Families
Fifth graders explore fact families. They solve simple math problems. Students determine which mathematical property is used to solve the given problem. They are given five minutes to complete as many mathematical facts as possible.
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Breaking News English: 2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual
In this English worksheet, students read "2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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People, Not Numbers: Bringing 12 Million into Personal Ter
Students forge a compassionate link to the large numbers of people who were the victims of slavery as opposed to thinking of them simply in terms of numbers. They perform a math exercise to put the number of people in slavery into...
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What If the Reef Dies?
Learners complete four activities to investigate how reef ecology can change. They perform experiments to show how sewage discharge can affect a marine ecosystem, look at substances that don't dissolve in water, examine wave action...