Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Pendulum Time

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working in teams, young scholars build their own pendulum clock using everyday materials. They conduct research, design, build, test it, and share observations with the class, while learning how pendulums operate and have been used to...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Your Body Know What Time It Is?

For Students 9th - 10th
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Plants Tell Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Morning glories unfurl their petals like clockwork in the early morning. A closing white waterlily signals that it's late afternoon. And moon flowers, as their name suggests, only bloom under the night sky. What gives plants this innate...