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PPT
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Mass vs. Weight

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial exploring the relationship between mass and weight. The tutorial also explains the difference between the concepts through pictures and examples.
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Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: What Being Overweight Means?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information about obesity, and the importance of weight control.
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Interactive
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: Masa Y Peso

For Students 9th - 10th
Is the mass the same as the weight? Try this little experiment to find out the answer.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for My Height?

For Students 9th - 10th
Finding out your correct weight is difficult because everyone's body type is different. This site addresses that concern and answers questions that surround this issue. Links to related sites are also offered.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Heavy Helicopters

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn about weight and drag forces by making paper helicopters and measuring how adding more weight affects the time it takes for the helicopters to fall to the ground.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hanging Around

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn about weight by building a spring scale and observing how it responds to objects with different masses.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Strawkets and Weight

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students investigate the effect that weight has on rocket flight. Students construct a variety of their own straw-launched rockets, or "strawkets," that have different weights. Specifically, they observe what happens...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wheeling It In!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In an open-ended design activity, students use everyday materials (milk cartons, water bottles, pencils, straws, candy) to build a small-scale transportation device. They incorporate the use of a wheel and axle, and lever into their...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You: Weight

For Teachers 5th - 7th
The purpose of this instructional activity is to help learners understand the relationship between the mass and the weight of an object. Students will study the properties of common materials and why airplanes use specific materials.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rocket Me Into Space

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
One of the exciting challenges for engineers is the idea of exploration. This activity looks more closely at Spaceman Rohan, Spacewoman Tess, their daughter Maya, and their challenges with getting to space, setting up satellites, and...
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Handout
American Academy of Family Physicians

Family doctor.org: High Blood Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
This article presents information about high blood pressure. The article is medium size in length, provides great information on the subject, and has two charts that relate to the subject.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Visually Find the Weight in Compound Units for Multiple Items

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A video and practice questions on how to read the scales for two items and record the weights in compound metric units. [1:22]
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Visually Finding Weight in Compound Units

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A video and practice questions on how to read a scale and record the weight in compound metric units. [1:08]
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Handout
National Institutes of Health

Niddk: The Health Risks of Being Overweight

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NIDDK provides an article and weight for height chart. Discusses Type 2 diabetes and associated health problems and effective preventative measures.
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Article
American Academy of Family Physicians

Aafp: Hypertension Treatment and the Prevention of Heart Disease in the Elderly

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the American Family Physician journal discusses medical research on the treatment of hypertension and its role in preventing coronary heart disease. Read about how doctors are treating and preventing hypertension and...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Growth Factor

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about ways to project heighth in students. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Identification of Equivalent Units of Weight

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert and identify equivalent customary units of weight.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measurement: Selection of Appropriate Weight or Capacity Units

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Choose the appropriate customary units of weight or capacity given various measurement situations.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Conversion of Ounces Into Pounds and Ounces

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are asked to convert weight from ounces into pounds and ounces. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:37] and a set of...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Conversion of Pounds and Ounces Into Ounces

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are asked to convert weight from pounds and ounces into just ounces. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:05] and a set...
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Weight

For Students 6th - 8th
This resource allows students to practice converting metric or customary units of weight. Students are able to select parameters that include metric or customary units and difficulty level. There are ten problems with instant feedback...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Mass vs Weight

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of weight and how to calculate the weight of an object.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Introduction to Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrated screencast explains the mass of an object as it relates to inertia. [3:01]
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Measuring Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
An introductory lesson on measuring mass, which also shows several tools with which to measure mass.