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Discovery Education

Stomp Rockets

For Teachers K - 8th
Watch the excitement grow as learners experiment with homemade rockets. Pupils create their own rockets from a soda bottle and experiment with launch angles. They discover the launch angle has a significant effect on the distance the...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Conservation of Mass

For Teachers 5th - 12th
How do you teach a student with visual impairments about the conservation of mass? You use tactile models that represent the theoretical concept. Baking soda and vinegar are used to add gas to a deflated balloon. Learners will feel the...
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Curated OER

Pollution and Lung Health

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate how pollution affects lung health. In this pollution and lung health lesson, students build lung models from a soda bottle and balloons, and then discuss how the emissions from fossil fuels can adversely affect lung...
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NASA

Lava Layering

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Take the old baking soda and vinegar volcano to the next level by using it to study repeated lava flows over time, examine geologic features on Earth and Mars, and speculate about some of the formations on Mars. 
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Curated OER

Volcanoes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students make a volcano out of a soda bottle, flower, salt, oil, and more. In this volcanoes lesson plan, students also read about volcanoes.
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Curated OER

Biodome

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars make a biodome out of a recycled soda bottle. In this biodome lesson plan, students make a self contained environment for a plant to grow and watch the plants growth.
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Curated OER

Leachate

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this garbage worksheet, students use soda bottles, sand, water, and more to do an experiment to see how garbage affects the ocean. Students answer 5 questions.
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Curated OER

Tornado in a Bottle

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create a tornado in a bottle by using paper towels, a soda bottle, glitter, food dye, and more. In this tornado in a bottle lesson plan, students first read about tornadoes and how they are formed.
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Curated OER

ENGINEERING TOOTHPASTE

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make a class list of household products and discuss how many of these products are made through chemistry. They guess the ingredients in the products and imagine how toothpaste might be made. They make toothpaste.
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Curated OER

Soda Pop Can Hero Engine

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view a demonstration on Newton's Laws of Motion using a soda can.  In this Newton's law lesson plan students discuss what they learned from the demonstration.
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Curated OER

Soda Pop Straws

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students sketch a still life picture. In this sketching lesson plan, students create a still life image using a cup and straws. Students create an original piece of art.
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Curated OER

Perfect Pitch

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this pitch worksheet, students make sounds using rubbing alcohol and soda bottles. Students follow 4 sets of directions and answer 4 questions.
Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Everyday Chemicals (Ages 11-14)

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Caustic soda helps break up clogs in drains in many homes. Scholars match 10 chemical names to their everyday names; for example, caustic soda is sodium hydroxide. Then, they complete three different grid puzzles practicing this skill.
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Under the Dome

Olympic Display

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Design it with soda cases. After viewing a picture of a soda case display, pupils develop questions about the design using information from the teacher. Scholars use the information and their knowledge about area and multiplication to...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Malt Shop

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
How does the soda clerk know exactly how to get the glass across the counter to the customer? Pupils use the simulation to adjust the launch velocity, glass weight, base area, surface material, and the customer's position to answer...
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Curated OER

Indoor Gardening by Building a Simple Hydroponics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the use of hydroponic gardening on the world food supply. In this hydroponic gardening lesson, students make a garden out of a soda bottle, grow a cilantro plant, and compare hydroponics with regular gardening using...
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Curated OER

Forces of Nature: Ring of Fire

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will research the Ring of Fire and be able to share their findings with their partner. They will also demonstrate volcanic eruptions using a baking soda and vinegar volcano model. Then they will discover how continental...
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Curated OER

Build a Model Submarine

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners form lab groups and work together to construct a submarine out of a soda bottle. Next, they observe its action in a tub of water as the inner pressure is changed. It is an engaging experiment. However, links to outside resources...
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Curated OER

Les Formes

For Students 5th - 8th
What shape is a can of soda? What about a book? Develop basic shape vocabulary with your beginning French speakers. They learn nine shapes, adjectives that correlate to shapes (like if something is cylindrical, it's cylindrique), and...
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Virginia Department of Education

Counterarguments

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Create an urbane battle royal in class with the old Coke vs. Pepsi challenge that develops upper level high school learners skills in developing counterarguments in essay writing. The educator divides the room according to tastes, and...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lego Atoms and Molecules: Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Show young chemists what a chemical reaction looks like with two parts of a hands-on experiment. First, learners conduct a wet lab where they observe the reactants (baking soda and calcium chloride, with phenolsulfonphthalein)...
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EngageNY

Using Sample Data to Estimate a Population Characteristic

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
How many of the pupils at your school think selling soda would be a good idea? Show learners how to develop a study to answer questions like these! The lesson explores the meaning of a population versus a sample and how to interpret the...
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Beyond Benign

Decision Graphic Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
E is for economics, environment, and social equity. The fifth installment of a 15-part series has scholars first considering ecological impacts, such as determining how much water it takes to produce a can of soda. They then use decision...
Lab Resource
Colorado State University

Why Does the Wind Blow?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Without wind, the weather man wouldn't have much to talk about! Blow away your junior meteorologists with a creative demonstration of how wind works. The activity uses an empty soda bottle and compressible Styrofoam peanuts to illustrate...

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