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Curated OER

We Tumble Together

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders follow a rubric to create a gymnastic tumbling routine set to music. They videotape and review their performances.
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Curated OER

Thinking About Learning

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discuss and read about approaches to classroom learning. They write a paper comparing the educational philosophy of CALS with that of their own schools. Specific examples are crucial to a successful piece.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Stress, Strain and Hooke's Law

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This lesson offers an introduction to Hooke's Law as well as stress-strain relationships. Students will first learn the governing equations. Then students will work through several example problems first individually, then as a class. In...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Health Problems Series: Stress [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The activities in this instructional activity unit can help learners to learn more about what stress is and how to effectively manage it. After identifying stressors, they will keep a record of how they handled stressful situations that...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Stressed and Strained

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students are introduced to the concepts of stress and strain with examples that illustrate the characteristics and importance of these forces in our everyday lives. They explore the factors that affect stress, why engineers need to know...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Managing Anger

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Reflect on what makes one angry and how one responds to anger. Practice anger management and conflict resolution through the "I-Message" communication technique and other group activities.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Physics of Bridges

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Introduce students to physics concepts that engineers use when building a bridge. This curriculum unit includes concepts such as Newton's Third Law, stress on a material, vibration, and resonance. Unit includes lectures, lab activities,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This instructional activity culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, students must depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a graph in Microsoft Excel. In addition, students...
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National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Serc: Modeling Glacier Dynamics With Flubber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on activity describes glacier mass balance in a changing climate. Learners make a glacier, construct a glacier valley, then run several tests with different values for valley slope, "flubber" temperature, and basal conditions...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mechanics of Elastic Solids

For Teachers 10th - 12th
After conducting the associated activity, students are introduced to the material behavior of elastic solids. Engineering stress and strain are defined and their importance in designing devices and systems is explained. How engineers...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viscoelasticity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners are introduced to the concept of viscoelasticity and some of the material behaviors of viscoelastic materials, including strain rate dependence, stress relaxation, creep, hysteresis and preconditioning. Viscoelastic material...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Strong as the Weakest Link

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To introduce the two types of stress that materials undergo - compression and tension - students examine compressive and tensile forces and learn about bridges and skyscrapers. They construct their own building structure using...