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Unit Plan
ReadWriteThink

Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A speaker, a message, an audience. After analyzing these elements in Queen Elizabeth's speech to the troops at Tilbury, groups analyze how other speakers use an awareness of events, and their audience to craft their arguments....
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Activity
Colorado State University

If You Can't Predict the Weather, How Can You Predict the Climate?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Why is the weather man wrong so often? Young climatologists discover how chaos rules both weather and climate through a math-based activity. Using an iterative equation, the class examines how small day-to-day weather events total up to...
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Lab Resource
Colorado State University

Why Is the Sky Purple?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The color of the sky depends on the time of day. Young scholars experiment with scattering different wavelengths of light to recreate the color of the sky. They observe both the longer blue wavelengths and the shorter red and orange...
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Lab Resource
Colorado State University

Why Does it Get Colder on a Clear Night than a Cloudy Night?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Clouds are nature's insulator! A lab investigation asks learners to use an infrared thermometer to measure differences in infrared temperatures. They find that pointing the thermometer at a cloud has a much different result than pointing...
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Lab Resource
Pingry School

Chemical Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
We know about the light spectrum, the age spectrum, and sound spectrum, but do chemical reactions also occur on a spectrum? Young scientists experiment with partial reactions on a spectrum and observe the color changes. Then, they...
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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Genes Get Shuffled When Chromosomes Exchange Pieces

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Some genes link to others that have implications for inheritance. A set of resources lead pupils through the history of this discovery. They explain how chromosomes recombine and which parts are more susceptible to this linkage....
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Webcams in the Classroom: Animal Inquiry and Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Boost observational skills with an inquiry-based lesson that takes scholars on a virtual field trip. With help from webcams, learners observe animals in a zoo or aquarium. Observations go into a journal and a discussion is held to review...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elegant Universe, The: Einstein's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students visualize a universe with fewer than three spatial dimensions. They consider how more than three spatial dimensions could exist in the universe.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Presidential Power

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders describe the power of the President. In this Constitution lesson students reflect on the power given to the president of the United States by the wording in the Constitution. Students give their opinion.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

THE MANY COLORS OF SUNLIGHT

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine rainbow components, spectral colors, colors perceived by the eye, hot solids, glowing rarefied gas, absorption, that light is a wave, and optics.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fallen Angels

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students read the novel, Fallen Angels, and examine the theme of coming of age during the Vietnam War. They create timelines of the 1960s, highlighting important issues of the era. They write research papers focusing on one particular...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use lecture, maps and video to analyze the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes. They relate this distribution to the theory of plate tectonics and conduct several experiments to illustrate the forces at work in this theory.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Magnetism

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this magnetism learning exercise, students answer ten questions about magnets, their magnetic poles, the magnetic lines of flux and how magnets work.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading and Thinking About Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore evolution. They read magazine articles related to evolution. Students describe arguments for/against evolution that the author used. High schoolers discuss their findings.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Fossils and Natural Selection

For Students 6th - 8th
In this fossils and natural selection worksheet, students will read a cause related to fossils and natural selection. Students will write in the effect of each of these causes. This worksheet has two questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work as a group to research a current issue, articulate the key points relating to the issue and to have data to support those key points, and use appropriate economic theories to help explain the issues arising.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Muscular System

For Students 9th - 12th
In this muscular system worksheet, students define related terms of the muscular system, they identify types of muscles, they order the events of muscle contraction and given a clue about structures and function of the muscular system...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pascal's Triangle

For Teachers 10th
In this geometry lesson, 10th graders investigate Pascal's Triangles as they relate it to probability problems and geometric problems. They review the theories behind the formulas.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Circle Theorem

For Students 8th - 10th
For this geometry worksheet, students draw an illustration of a circle centered between two points. They draw three line segments. Students answer two questions about the resulting angles. A sample, interactive drawing is included with...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Family and Social Policy

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
Review main topics relating to family and social policy using this resource. Learners answer eight questions related to the theories behind certain social policies.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners read a paper describing Einstein's 1905 papers. They answer five teacher-provided questions in small groups to consider the importance of his findings. Students describe in personal writings what effect they think these findings...
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Curated OER

International Relations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast Neo-realism vs. Realism and Neo-liberalism vs. Liberalism using computers, the internet, Inspiration educational software, and concept maps. This lesson includes a short lesson description and video clip.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Atoms, Kinetic Theory, Solids and Fluids

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Pupils identify and describe the building blocks that make up an atom. They also compare the ages of atoms to the ages of the materials they compose,as well as, give examples that illustrate the small size of atoms.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Solving Science Mysteries

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars choose a science-related mystery to investigate such as the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. They, in groups, research theories and give a persuasive talk presenting the theory they feel to be most likely.

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