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TECH:Ornamental Metal (Manu)

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students create a small candle holder, utilizing some of the same tools, materials, and skills used by professional ironworkers. They list the careers and leisure activities that use these tools and materials.
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Money and Change

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this money and change worksheet, students read about multiplying with money, then solve 4 problems, estimating first. Students then study 3 charts and write number sentences.
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Rocket Activity

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore Newton's Second Law of Motion. In this rocket activity lesson, students experiment with Newton's Second Law of Motion as they use a slingshot device to force a car to move.
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Taking Apart Electrical Appliances

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars apply the scientific method to the act of taking apart appliances. In this scientific process lesson, students disassemble appliances to learn how their components work together.
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Volunteering as Good Work

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the various jobs at a school. In this school jobs lesson, students recognize the way people in the school are helped by others. Students are assigned a job and write about the help of others. Students pages are put...
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Challenger's Lost Lessons - The Lost Simple Machines Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the characteristics of simple machines. In this simple machine lesson, students investigate work as a product of applying constant force. They answer questions about what happens on Earth and what may have happened...
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Recycled Robots

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create recycled art. In this visual art lesson, students use recycled products to assemble robotic pieces of art. Students also write stories about their robots.
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Gerunds and Infinitives 21

For Students 5th - 6th
In this gerunds and infinitives worksheet, students complete an online interactive multiple choice exercise. Students read 10 sentences and from 2 choices, select the correct gerund or infinitive for the sentence blank.
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 27

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning sentence completion exercise 27 worksheet, students complete ten sentences interactively by choosing the correct word(s), with immediate feedback.
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Whole Lotta Shakin Going On

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study how tectonic plates can produce earthquakes.  In this earthquake lesson students use a model earthquake machine to explore hypotheses about earthquakes. 
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Protecting Treasures

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore electricity by creating an alarm. In this circuitry lesson plan, students analyze a diagram of a circuit based alarm which detects sunlight. Students utilize electrical equipment to recreate the circuit and practice...
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Vocabulary Review #13

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary review #13 worksheet, students interactively complete 10 sentences by selecting the correct word with immediate online feedback.
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Top Table

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
In this craft project worksheet, students gather materials and with adult help, construct a table for feeding birds. This is an advanced project.
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Problem-Solving Skill: Is an Estimate Enough?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this problem-solving skills learning exercise, students learn how to determine whether or not an estimate is enough when solving a problem. They then use this skill to solve the 2 questions at the bottom of the page.
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Water Pressure - Observing Water Flow

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students discover that pressure increases the deeper the ocean becomes. They determine how water pressure differs at various depths by observing water flow.
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Binary Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore how a battery-powered light box demonstrates how to transmi timages.
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Blocks And Screws (or "screwy Contrivances")

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, given a block of wood and a screw or nail, are asked to put that screw or nail into a block. They examine how many contrivances and other imperfections found in living things are best explained by the process of evolution.
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Magnets

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders classify objects and formulate hypotheses regarding various materials and their magnetic properties. They complete a worksheet and watch a video.
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Trades People

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss the names of the people who work on various stuctures. They examine the many different roles people in construction can have. They match tools with the correct job and sing songs about workers.
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Finding Coal Products in Your Home

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify items in their homes that come from coal. They divide into groups and decide as a group which items are made from coal by-products. They then divide their poster board into three columns and label the first - items made...
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Machines: Useful But Dangerous

For Teachers 1st
First graders study, observe, and use a simple machine. They study necessary safety and review posted safety rules related to using a machine and identify strategies for reporting any accidents or injuries.
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Woodworking Terms Word Search

For Students 9th - 12th
In this woodworking terms worksheet, students locate names of tools used with wood. A list of 15 items is provided for identification. An answer key is available.
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S Words

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words that are associated with the letter "s" and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Father's Day Gifts

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this Father's Day worksheet, students listen as the teacher reads a passage on why we celebrate Father's Day and what types of gifts to give a father on Father's Day.