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Rotating Rings of Ice

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars work together to develop a model of Saturn and its rings. They identify what types of materials make up the rings and how they revolve around Saturn. They write a short paragraph describing the rings.
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Tortillas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers convert recipes for tortillas. They calculate the amounts of ingredients as they convert recipes and write an explanation of the task to demonstrate their calculations. After reviewing their calculations, they...
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Balancing Bottles

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the Law of Conservation of Matter using effervescent tablets.  In this mass and energy instructional activity, students investigate how mass is conserved in the reaction of effervescent tablets and water. They will...
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Selecting Soil Organisms in Compost

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students conduct an experiment to demonstrate that many of the enzyme systems needed to break down society's wastes exist in nature among the decomposers in a compost pile. They culture compost bacteria on starch agar to examine the...
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Selecting Soil Organisms in Compost

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students demonstrate that many of the enzyme systems needed to break down--and therefore clean up-society's wastes already exist in nature among the decomposers. They select the best starch-munching organisms by altering the environment...
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Herb is the Word

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners conduct an experiment to determine how different soils affect plant growth over a six-week period. After determining the physical properties of different types of soil, students plant various types of seeds into the soil...
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The Elastic Racquet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use this introductory lab using a tennis racquet, however it is very difficult to study because of the strings and the racquet stretch so little and so quickly during a match that students were unable to make simple...
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The Drag of Drag

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students are introduced to drag. Then they summarize drag by saying that the drag is proportional to the square of the velocity. Students then solve problems an example of such a problem: Explain why swimming underwater is faster than...
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Elastic Racquet

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students discover the science behind a tennis racket by looking at a simple toy that works in a similar way. After looking at the related mathematical equations, students experiment with the simple toy to find the spring constant k by...
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What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discover the Archimedes principle through a buoyancy experiment. They measure the water displacement of a lump a clay which is denser than water then reshape the clay into a bowl which floats but displaces more water.
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Tailoring Two Cultures to Adapt to Wisconsin's Biotic Zones

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the effect of the various ice ages on Wisconsin. In groups, they create a map representing the five geographic regions of Wisconsin. They must write out a description of each region to be placed on a poster board. ...
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Intensity of Light

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the relationship between the brightness of a light and the distance from the light. They identify two different ways of looking at the brightness of a light, how luminous light is and how illuminated an object is....
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Exhibit Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students fill in a worksheet from a scavenger hunt about submarines. A tour guide has to stamp it to make it validated. They have various questions to answer ranging from when the first underwater vessel was created, who created it,...
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Percents

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders, while in the computer lab, participate in the game Mission Magnetite where they utilize percents and fractions to stop Hacker from dropping magnetite on Motherboard Central. They follow the instructions precisely as they...
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A Galactic Fact Sheet

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this galactic fact worksheet, students read through important facts about galaxies, their shapes, and distances from the Sun.
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Word Search Baseball

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this baseball word search worksheet, students find 16 words in a puzzle which pertain to the sport of baseball. There is a word bank, and the puzzle is shaped like a baseball.
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Simple Time

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music worksheet, students read a chart about time. For example, students read about the number of the crotchet beats, the minimum beats, and the quaver beats.
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Subtraction worksheet

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students look for the answers to the subtraction worksheet. The printable worksheet has many ads that are inappropriate for kids.
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Four Digit Subtraction

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this math learning exercise, students find the solutions to the four digit subtraction problems. The ads are inappropriate for kids.
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Three Digit Subtraction

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the 25 subtraction problems. The answers are found at the bottom of the sheet.
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Multiplication Worksheet

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this math activity, students find the answers to the 25 multiplication problems. The answers are found at the bottom of the sheet.
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Negative Constructions

For Students 7th
In this negative constructions worksheet, 7th graders review and discuss what negative constructions are and how to avoid using them in sentences. Students build three sentences with a set of words for each one.
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Searching the Internet

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this computer research learning exercise, students read 9 detailed instructions on how to properly conduct an Internet search. There are no questions.
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Creating Bonds

For Students 10th - 12th
In this creating bonds activity, students create 2-D and 3-D models of the molecular formula provided. Students complete a chart of information about the molecular formula given.

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