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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Describing Velocity

For Students 6th - 8th
An interactive module where students record their ideas in response to questions, and read and manipulate graphs and charts while they learn about velocity-time graphs and position-time graphs.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Dew Point

For Students 6th - 8th
For this experiment, students work to find the dew point temperature in their classroom, or the temperature at which water would condense. Includes questions for students to respond to online. Requires free registration in order to save...
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Voices From Afghanistan

For Students 6th - 8th
A beautiful exhibition reminds us of the extraordinary conditions that ordinary citizens must endure during times of war and conflict. Teachers write of their concerns, students write of bitter cold, citizens request food and aid. There...
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Activity
Inland Fisheries Ireland

Something Fishy: What Is a Fish?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Something fishy site invites users to discover more about fish and fish types by learning how fish use their gills to breathe as well as where they fit in the food chain.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Sun Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cool Cosmos provides the answer to many questions about the sun! Just find your question and click on it.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource compiles a list of most frequently asked questions about Mercury. Each question is linked to an astronomer's answer. Kids can explore many aspects of this wonderful planet.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer: Venus

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource offers the answers to many frequently asked questions about Venus. Kids can click on the user-friendly question links to learn more about this amazing planet.
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Primary
Massachusetts Historical Society

Massachusetts Historical Society: A Set of Plans and Forts in America, 1765

For Students 3rd - 8th
A digitized version of a book published in 1765 by Mary Ann Rocque, widow of John Rocque, topographer to the Duke of Glouchester. Contains images of the thirty plans of forts in North America. Published after the English victory over the...
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Unit Plan
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum: Three Branches of Government

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Interactive teaching unit for Grades 5-8 that helps to explain the three branches of government and the the balance of power. Topics covered include balance of government, how a bill becomes a law, the amendment process, the Legislative...
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer for Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cool Cosmos, a NASA-affiliated site, has compiled a list of frequently asked questions about the moon and linked them to answers provided by actual astronomers! Click back to the Cool Cosmos home to access the Spanish-language version.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer: Comets

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource provides easy to understand information about comets. Click on the frequently asked question link to find out more about these mysterious celestial bodies.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cool Cosmos and NASA have joined together to provide kids with the answers to their most frequently asked questions. Visit this site to learn more about asteroids.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer for Kids: Solar System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource presents information about the solar system through a list of most frequently asked questions. Click on each question and be transported to a wealth of knowledge about our solar system and the planets within it.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is a star? How many stars can you see at night? How far away are the stars? Find the answer to these questions and more as Cool Cosmos and NASA astronomers answer the most frequently asked questions about stars!
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cool Cosmos and NASA help explore the world of galaxies! This site provides the answers to kid's most frequently asked questions.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cool Cosmos and NASA help you uncover the mysterious Nebula. Kid's frequently asked questions are answered on this site thorugh easy to use links!
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have you ever wondered if aliens really exist? So do astrobiologists. Their job is to find out if life exists in space. Cool Cosmos and NASA provide the answers to the most frequently asked questions about this topic.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer for Kids! Spacecraft

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cool Cosmos makes it easy to learn more about spacecrafts through an easy to use list of kid's frequently asked questions. Just click on the question to enhance your understanding of this modern technological wonder.
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cool Cosmos identifies kid's frequently asked questions about the tools we use in space. Click on the links to find the answer to questions about space stations, telescopes, spectrometers and more!
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Website
California Institute of Technology

Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have you ever wanted to work with space? This site provides information about some of the interesting careers available for you. NASA and Cool Cosmos have compiled a list of kid's frequently asked questions about jobs dealing with space...
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Interactive
NASA

Nasa: Future Flight: Aeronautics Lab

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive activity takes students through a NASA aeronautics lab and shows them how spaceflights are designed. Learn about the process that scientists go through before a spaceflight, such as the propulsion and lift labs and...
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Everyday Mysteries: What Is the Strongest Muscle?

For Students 3rd - 8th
There are a variety of ways one can look at what might be the strongest muscle in the body. This site defines the various types of muscles and goes on to explain which would be considered the strongest.
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Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn alberta.ca: Math Interactives: Rate/ratio/proportion (Object Interactive)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This highly interactive resource uses the backdrop of digital photography to explore equivalent forms of 3-term ratios. Printable activities, solutions, and learning strategies are also provided.
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Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn alberta.ca: Math Interactives: Order of Operations (Object Interactive)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students will be able to explore the order of operations in this highly interactive math resource from LearnAlberta.ca. Also included are print activities, solutions, learning strategies, and a math game.