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Field Trip Preparation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make a contingency plan in case of unexpected events such as bad weather. They discuss safety and appropriate conduct.They map out a schedule to ensure that sufficient time is allotted for all activities.
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Invertebrates and Vertebrate Evolution

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore the major characteristics of the major animal phyla. They describe adaptive features that have contributed to the success of animals on land. Students explain how primate evolution provides a context for understanding...
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Mixed Spelling Challenge 4

For Students 4th - 5th
In this spelling worksheet, students analyze the ten words in each of 3 boxes and circle the five words that are spelled wrong. Students write the correct spelling of each word they circled. The vocabulary on this page is standard in the...
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Reading Stories

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading worksheet, students read 4 stories and answer multiple choice questions about them. Students answer 26 questions total.
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Ride on a Slide

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate gravity and engineering by participating in a slide building experiment.  In this early physics lesson plan, students utilize cardboard boxes to create a model of a children's slide.  Students analyze the...
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Representing Text Story Web: Pretest

For Students 5th - 8th
In this story web worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about how to make and use a story web. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Vocabulary Review #1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this vocabulary review #1 worksheet, students interactively answer 10 multiple choice questions with immediate online feedback.
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Strong as Newspaper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore architecture. In this science lesson, students build a structure from newspaper. Students place weight on the structure to measure how strong the structure is.
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Miller-Urey Experiment Amino Acids & The Origins of Life on Earth

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study the Miller-Urey Experiment including its history and criticism.  In this origins of life lesson students repeat this experiment to see how it works.
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Soda Straw Rocket Activity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students construct a rocket using soda straw. In this physics lesson, students determine the nose cone length that produces the best rocket. They explain the importance of using a control in an experiment.
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Understanding Cancer

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study facts about cancer. In this cancer lesson plan, students read about cancer, cancer cells, cancer treatment, and research. They answer true or false questions on a worksheet before reading about cancer prevention.
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Determining the Proper Cement: Water Ratio for Quality Concrete

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine concrete samples and guess their strength. They determine the correlation between concrete strength and the cement to water ratio that was used in making each sample. They make a quality concrete based on their...
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Understanding Quantities

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this quantities activity, students complete the sentences with the vocabulary about quantities. Students complete 15 sentences.
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Roller Coasters in the Classroom

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students define kinetic energy and know the effects of weight and speed on momentum.  In this investigative lesson students get into groups and design a roller coaster. 
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ROLLER COASTERS IN THE CLASSROOM

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Students define potential and kinetic energy and explain the relationship of height to potential energy.  In this roller coaster lesson students construct a model of a roller coaster which will allow them to see the basic physical...
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"Pennsylvania Watersheds, Many Ways to the Sea"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students trace a molecule of water through the water cycle including each of its three loops. They describe why evapotranspiration demands the largest portion of total precipitation falling on a forested watershed.
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Mussel Your Way Through Photosynthesis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students, using zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), elodea and an indicator dye, observe and record the role of light in photosynthesis. They consider plant production of carbon dioxide and the use of live materials in biological...
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Nutrition in Space

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discover the importance of a healthy diet during space travel and examine the physiological changes astronauts experience while in space. In groups, they develop questions to determine an astronaut's food intake and identify...
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Physiology Activity Perception and Behavior

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment to determine a fly's ability to detect sugar, its behavioral response, how a previous experience may alter the response, if a fly can be tricked, and how human sensitivity compares to a fly.
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Bungee Man Lab

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the motion of a toy bungee jumper using the scientific method. They view a video of a bungee jumper and discuss what can be measured about a bungee jump. Students discuss the scientific mehtod and how to design an...
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Environment: Natural and Invasive Plants

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine a parcel of open land to collect data about the native and invasive plants found there. By monitoring the area, they prevent the spread of weeds through early detection. Students create posters describing the monitoring...
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Test Tube: Behind the Scenes in the World of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of science video shorts presented as raw video which are lightly edited to show what real scientists are like and how they work. Topics vary in many scientific fields.
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Serc: Using a Secchi Disk or Transparency Tube

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This EPA resource provides instructions for using Secchi disks and transparency tubes to measure water clarity.
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Royal Society of Chemistry: Test Tubes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Colorful liquids in test tubes.

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