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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: The Everyday Science of Sports [Pdf]
A lesson plan where young scholars learn about the physics behind golf balls. Students evaluate different designs of golf balls to understand how their design impacts their function. After their evaluation, young scholars will try to...
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Discovery Education: 3 M Science of Everyday Life: Wind Energy Virtual Lab
Design, build, and test an energy efficient wind turbine that will supply 400 homes with electricity for one year.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Everyday Science of Eggs [Pdf]
A lab where students can investigate eggs and what happens to egg whites after they are beaten. Lesson plan includes teacher background, standards, and a procedure for students to develop their own experiment.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Cushion It! [Pdf]
Students investigate the best way to cushion wrap a sugar cube to protect it from a collision in this lesson plan. During their investigation, students learn about collisions and variables that affect collisions.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Interaction at a Distance [Pdf]
An experiment where students investigate the strength of magnets. This site includes a lesson plan with both teacher and student information for completing the experiment.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: In the Mix [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students use different types of filters to separate the mixture. This lab requires the students to use engineering skills to solve a real-world problem of filtering water.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: How Strong Is It? [Pdf]
In this lesson plan students will learn how strong a Post-it notes adhesion really is! Students will experiment pulling a Post-It note to collect quantitative data to explore the adhesive properties of the note.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Strong as Newspaper [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, learners use their engineering knowledge to construct a structure made of newspaper. Students test the strength of their structure with weights! Lesson plan includes teacher and student instructions.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Right Back at You! [Pdf]
What make a good reflective surface? In this lab, learners will investigate different surfaces with a reflectivity tester. Lesson plan includes information for students and teachers.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: It's Getting Hot in Here [Pdf]
Students explore solar energy in this lesson plan by collecting and analyzing actual temperature data from a simple model house.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Drive It Green [Pdf]
In this lesson, plan students design greener transportation solutions for their community. Lesson contains three parts that ask students to look at their impact on the environment.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Don't Slip! [Pdf]
In this lesson plan students experience friction by sliding a block of wood over sandpaper. Students will experiment with frictional forces by measuring with spring scales or rubberbands.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Oil Spill Clean Up [Pdf]
In this lesson plan students experiment with cleaning up an oil spill. This lesson begins with students learning about the effects of oil spills on the natural environment. Then students will explore the most effective way to clean up an...
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Light and Shadow [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students experience how light interacts with the environment by investigating relationships between shadows and light. Students will experiment with light by observing how light travels through materials and distances.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: It's Too Loud! [Pdf]
In this lesson plan students will experiment with ear protectors to investigate sound reduction. This lab has students collecting, analyzing, and organizing sound level data. Lesson plan includes instructions for teachers and students.
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Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Fun With Adhesives [Pdf]
In this lesson plan students experiment with making their own formula of glue after the art teacher runs out of store bought glue for her classes. While making their glue, the students learn about adhesives.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Force and Motion
In this student-paced module, students apply Newton's Laws of Motion to everyday life, calculate mathematical relationships involving force and motion using algebraic formulas, and understand the difference between mass and weight.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Science of Everyday Life: Dishwasher
A video detailing the history of the dishwashing machine. [3:13]
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Reciprocal Net: Crystals and Chemicals in Everyday Life
In this interactive students will understand crystals and chemicals in everyday life. The animation takes you through a household and explains various crystallogrophy we use all the time. Objects include light bulbs, items in a bathroom...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discuss: Algorithms in Your Life
Learners are invited to express algorithms in their everyday life, sports, games and apps.
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Freie Universitat Berlin: Everyday Objects [Pdf]
In our daily lives we are surrounded by objects which have specific roles and functions. Some are relatively simple, like a drinking cup. Others are much more complex, like a mobile phone. This wonderful 56-page handbook presents...
Harvard University
Harvard Smithsonian: Everyday Classroom Tools
The focus of this series of lessons is to engage students in an exploration of the world around them. The emphasis is on inquiry as students learn about the earth, sun, light, shapes and more.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: Glossary: Speaking Science
A glossary of science terms, including terms for life, earth, and physical science.
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Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Innovation Exploration
Advance your way through everyday life by exploring the science all around you. Click on an innovation within each scene and answer each question to proceed to the next.