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Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Triple Beam Balance Challenge (0.01 G)

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice reading a triple-beam balance to the nearest 0.01 g.
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Website
US Department of Agriculture

Choose My Plate: Why Is Physical Activity Important?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes a simple list of reasons why getting exercise is important for your physical and emotional well-being. Also, learn definitions and examples of aerobic activities, resistance activities, and stretching activities.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how sensory stimuli are perceived and interpreted.
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Website
Other

Web Reference: Rough It Up: Production Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about using abstract shapes and positions of images to create interesting effects. Includes a tutorial.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Dinosaur Train Chow Time

For Students Pre-K - K
Feed the hungry dinosaurs but make sure they are getting the right amount! Click and drag food to the scale until it's balanced.
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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Pan Balance Shapes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this tool to build up to algebraic thinking by exploring how to balance shapes of unknown weight.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Mechanics of Standing Balance

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 5-question quiz to help prepare for the MCAT. It uses the analogy between a standing patient and an inverted pendulum and the mechanics of standing balance.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Physical Model of Human Sitting

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice for the MCAT with this passage, diagram, and question about equilibrium and translational motion.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: A Perfect Sacred Sphere [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders will explore protractors, rulers, balance both radial, and symmetrical, and concepts of angle measurements as they create their own mandalas.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Throw Your Weight Around [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Three activities that test how you keep your balance. It's harder than you think!
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Unity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Artlex provides a brief but effective definition of the Principle of Design known as Unity. There are links to other terms within the definition.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Cup Tower Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe some of the issues that structural engineers encounter by building a tower with paper or plastic cups and then reporting on your experience.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Balancing Balls on Air

For Students 1st - 5th
Investigate how the force of moving air from a blow dryer interacts with the force of gravity to keep a ping-pong ball perfectly balanced in midair.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Affluenza

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you feel bloated and unfulfilled from keeping up with the Joneses? Find out how to live in better balance with your environment.
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Article
Other

Design and Colour

For Students 9th - 10th
A site by watercolor artist John Lovett. He describes the Elements of Art and Principles of Design and gives tips and techniques for watercolor painting and for composition.
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Activity
Treehut

Suzy's World: Balance

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out how you make things balance and try balancing yourself!
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Robots Alive! Toddler's First Steps

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate the physics involved in balancing.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Balance and Motion: Push and Pull

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn what balance, force, push and pull are. There are video clips and interactive practice of these vocabulary words and concepts.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Balancing Chemical Equations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will use the Activotes and pen to balance chemical equations.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Exercise

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gets the students up and moving as well as thinking about the importance of exercise and the impact it has on the human body.
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Cavendish and the Value of G

For Students 9th - 10th
A short description of how Cavendish measured the value of G - the universal gravitation constant and supported Newton's theory. Illustrated.
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Activity
Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: Balance

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This pair of...
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PBS

Pbs: Host a Family Olympics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Design and build a track with obstacles you must go over, under, around or through. Participate in a non-competive event with a variety of games that develop gross motor skills.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: Pan Balance

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a game of weighing the rocks using the pan balance.