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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Everyday Science of Eggs [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lab where students can investigate eggs and what happens to egg whites after they are beaten. Lesson plan includes teacher background, standards, and a procedure for students to develop their own experiment.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: If Then Statements

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Rewrite statements in if-then form and determine the hypothesis and conclusion. Students can watch video, examine guided notes and attempt practice problems in order...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Bloodstain Pattern Doesn't Lie

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will formulate a hypothesis about the relationship (linear, direct, indirect, etc.) between the distance a drop of blood falls and the diameter of the splatter it makes. To test their hypothesis, the students will work...
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Easter Island Mystery

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you'll look at a single event-the collapse of the population on an island-from different points of view. You're going to try to make sense of what happened there, and you'll do this using an interdisciplinary approach....
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Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Conditional Statement

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide for learning all about conditional statements with definitions, how to create them, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Activity
Children's Discovery Museum

Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Animal Detectives

For Students 3rd - 5th
Go on a scavenger hunt and collect clues about what animals might live nearby. Even if you don't catch a glimpse of the creature itself, you can still tell they've been nearby.
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Graphic
Northern Illinois University

Niu: Socratic Method vs. Scientific Method

For Students 9th - 10th
A chart which compares and contrasts the Socratic and scientific methods.
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Handout
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Publishing: Practicing Scientific Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Glencoe Publishing not only explains hypothesis but also tells how to design an experiment to test your hypothesis. Includes the difficult task of "Separating and controlling variables."
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Unit Plan
SRI International

Performance Assessment Links in Science: Follow Those Tracks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan requires students to make an inference (hypothesis) about two animals based on the tracks they leave behind. Students are asked to write a story explaining their inference.
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Professional Doc
Other

Drs.cavanaugh: Science proj.handbook, Display Checklist

For Students 9th - 10th
A checklist of the nine or ten items which should be on your display, plus an illustration of where they should go on a tri-fold poster.
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Website
Other

Who Dunnit to the Dinosaurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
"One of the great mysteries in science is the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic Era some 65 million years ago. Who (or more likely what) caused it is unknown and a subject of great debate." Many theories are touched...
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Handout
Other

Fayetteville State University: Hypothesis Testing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A page from the university's statistics site which builds on the standard errors from the Central Limit Theorem previously explained. Here hypothesis testing is defined and validated.
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Handout
Other

Astronomy Notes: A Scientific Theory Is . . .

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief review explains that a scientific theory comes from testing an idea.
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Professional Doc
Other

Gphsf: Basic Project Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is a short piece, part of a larger page, on conducting your experiment. It contains a lot of good advice.
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Website
Other

Dinosaur Extinction: One More Hypothesis

For Students 9th - 10th
"The survivals and extinctions at the close of the Cretaceous are such as might be expected to result from intensely hot winds such as would be generated by extra large meteoritic impacts." This article suggests that this theory should...
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Inquiry Teaching Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about using inquiry when teaching. An explanation shares the importance of using inquiry to spur curiosity in students as they engage in research.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Steps of the Scientific Method: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the steps involved in the Scientific Method. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Steps of the Scientific Method."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Steps of the Scientific Method: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the steps involved in the Scientific Method. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Steps of the Scientific Method."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Scientific Method: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson describes the process scientists use when trying to understand the world around them. It is 4 of 7 in the series titled "The Scientific Method."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Scientific Method: Lesson 7

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson describes the process scientists use when trying to understand the world around them. It is 7 of 7 in the series titled "The Scientific Method."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Two Approaches to Learn About Nature: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson illustrates the process by which people can learn about the nature of living things. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Two Approaches to Learn About Nature."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Two Approaches to Learn About Nature: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson illustrates the process by which people can learn about the nature of living things. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Two Approaches to Learn About Nature."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Constructing a Hypothesis: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson illustrates how to create a hypothesis when setting up a scientific experiment. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Constructing a Hypothesis."
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Handout
Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: The Scientific Method

For Students 3rd - 8th
Gives an overview of the scientific method as it relates to a science fair project.