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Common Themes
Tenth graders test usefulness of a model Earth by comparing its predictions to observations in the real world. For this landforms lesson students construct an island from a contour map using model clay then analyze the landscape...
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Floating on Salt Water
Mixing substances together causes their properties to change. This resource illustrates that concept for fifth graders by having them consider four questions that have to do with buoyancy and boiling point. Learners begin to understand...
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Soil's Secret
Students examine two types of soils in their area. They identify its texture and permeability to determine its origin. They share their results with the class.
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Limestone and Its Uses
Everything you ever wanted to know about limestone fills these 15 slides. Its properties, uses, and reactions with other materials are all explained. Most likely, this would be useful in a high school geology class as an example of...
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Marine Fisheries Management
Almost 200 slides make this a vast collection! It is a quirky collection, titled "Marine Fisheries Management," but having little to do with that occupation. What you will find are two-toned blue backgrounds with no pictures, but a few...
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Soil Porosity, Moisture Content, pH, and Density
This lab activity does not have to be done with AP environmental scientists. It can also be done with middle to high school earth scientists. The procedures aren't complex. Learners determine the density of dry and wet sand in order to...
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The Earth is a Changin'
Pupils view examples of different types of erosion. In this erosion lesson plan, students discuss the different types of erosion and how erosion changes Earth. Pupils explore erosion and the effect it has on engineering.
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Group 7 - The Halogens
Properties and uses of the halogen elements are illuminated by this compact collection of slides. Examples of halogen reactions with alkali metals, hydrogen, and water are also explained. This is a nifty resource to support an...
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Alcohols, Phenols, and Ethers
Twelve pages of text tells viewers about the physical properties and naming procedures for alcohols and ethers. A page is also dedicated to briefly describing phenols. This straightforward chemistry presentation comes to you as a PDF...
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The Delany Garden
Middle schoolers design and create a garden. They select flowers in small groups and research them. They draw a diagram of the landscape for their garden and plant flowers and observe them as they grow.
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Rainforest Plant or Animal?
Students explore the major functions of plants and animals. In this rainforest lesson plan students create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast animals in the rainforest.
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Acids and Alkalis
This PowerPoint progresses slide-by-slide through all the facts you would want to deliver about acids, alkalis, salts, and the related lab tests. Each slide has one or two facts about a physical or chemical property or behavior. The...
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Temperature Changes Everything
Students determine the effect of temperature on the motion of particles. They study the difference between particles in a gas, liquid, and a solid and see how the characteristics of solids, liquids, and gases can be explained by particle...
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Solid, Liquid, Gas!
Students determine the properties of the solids, liquids, and gases, and how they can recognize those properties by observing a teacher demonstration. Next, they experiment with at mystery matter that looks like a liquid but that takes...
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How to identify a physical change from a chemical change
Pupils identify the difference between some physical and chemical properties and compare some physical and chemical changes. They design an experiment to distinguish between a physical or a chemical property of their choice.
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Plastic Polymers
Young scholars learn about plastic. For this plastic polymers lesson, students examine the properties of plastic, its variety of uses and how it is recycled.
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Animals: Worms
Students research the physical characteristics of mealworms and tubefex. In this worm lesson, students explore worms using a microscope. Students search their environment for worms.
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Changing Places
This lesson involves live ladybugs. Pupils view two containers of water and take the temperature of each. They construct a graph on chart paper to compare the two containers. Students speculate which water sample the ladybugs will like...
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Chemical Engineering: Volcanoes
Students study volcanoes using a chemical engineering project. In this volcanoes lesson, students create a model town and discuss the properties of a volcano. Students then make a volcano using a chemical engineering format for their...
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From Polymers to Bioplastics: Looking Toward Finding Renewable Resources
Students investigate the properties of polymers. In this chemistry activity, students explain the importance of energy sources. They produce a bioplastic from the lab and evaluate its structural integrity.
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Ice Melting
Students design investigations to test various materials to prevent heat gain in frozen water. The task assess students' knowledge of scientific inquiry including the following skills: observation, data collection, measurement,...
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Bellwork for Week 4-Geology and the Periodic Table
In this geology and the periodic table worksheet, students answer nine questions about specific minerals, the patterns in the periodic table, and properties of rocks and minerals.
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Quadrate Lab
Students investigate tree stems and conduct an experiment on how non living factors affect living factors. In this tree stems lesson plan, students observe and record physical characteristics, and make predictions on what factors will...
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Echolocation and Communication
Students participate in a role-play activity to determine how whales use the properties of echolocation to communicate.