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ProProfs

Pro Profs Quiz Maker: Map Reading Awareness Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a nine-question quiz about information on maps and parts of a map. The questions are timed, but not limited.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: What You Need to Know About Immigration Reform

For Students 6th - 8th
Interpret graphs showing changes over time in the percentage of foreign-born US residents and in annual deportations in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use the interactive and look at how...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Bouncing Ball

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this experiment, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. This activity investigates the values of height, time, and the coefficient A in the quadratic equation, which describes the behavior of...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Predicting the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in the Gulf of Maine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson helps students understand the variables that influence the abundance of phytoplankton. Students will make predictions about the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Maine. Furthermore, data from buoy...
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Poverty Trends: What Does It Mean to Be Poor in America?

For Students 6th - 8th
Use math to learn about changes in US wealth distribution and poverty rate over time in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students interpret the graphs and consider how the poverty rate spike following...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Do You Really Want to Visit the Arctic?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This jigsaw activity is designed for students to become familiar with several datasets of Arctic weather data, collected in Eureka on Ellesmere Island. Students join a role-playing activity to read and interpret graphs while considering...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bubbling Plants

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students learn a simple technique for quantifying the amount of photosynthesis that occurs in a given period of time, using a common water plant (Elodea). They can use this technique to compare the amounts of photosynthesis that occur...
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Human Environmental Interactions [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Inspired by Hemispheres' 2004 Teachers' Summer Institute, People and Place: Human-Geographic Relations, this curriculum unit was designed to address human adaptation to and modification of the environment. How have humans adjusted to...