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Uen: Expansion and Contraction of Materials
Lesson demonstrates how materials expand and contract with heat.
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Uen: Mental Health Matters
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will understand the continuum of mental health and recognize the warning signs of mental health problems.
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Uen: Chemical Reactions and Equations
With this experiment, students will identify evidence of chemical reactions and demonstrate how chemical equations are used to describe them.
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Uen: Classroom Bonding
Students will be assigned an ion "name tag" and move around the classroom finding suitable other "atoms" to bond with.
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Uen: Conductivity and Bonding
Students will measure the conductivity of several compounds and solutions in order to predict the bond types (ionic or covalent) in the substances tested.
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Uen: Healthy Relationships: Teen Dating Violence
As teens develop relationships, it is pertinent that they grow an understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships. This instructional activity focuses on the basics of relationships and dating violence.
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Uen: Balancing Act
Students will use wooden atoms to model and balance a chemical reaction.
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Uen: Atomic Model Construction
Young scholars create models of atoms then compare the various aspects of the atoms including; relative size, charge, positions of subatomic particles, and identity of the atom based on proton, neutron, and electrons with the class.
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Uen: Elements in the Universe
Students will use a graph of the relative abundance of elements in the Universe to determine relationships between size of the atoms and their abundance.
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Uen: Celebrate Constitution Day
September 17th has been designated as Constitution Day. Use these resources to help gain a deeper appreciation and understanding of our nation's founding document. You will find lesson plans, readings, timelines, and more.
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Uen: African American History Resources
February is African American History Month and a great time to investigate the contributions that African Americans have made to the history and cultural development of the United States. Resources include general information, lesson...
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Uen: Where Did the Matter in the Universe Come From?
Students use various articles about how atoms are made and spread throughout the universe starting with the Big Bang. They will study the articles as groups and will then present their information to the class.
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Uen: Timeline for the Atom
Learners will examine how significant scientific theories are developed, explore the work of scientists who contributed ideas to the atomic theory, and develop a timeline of key scientists to show how the work of each one built on the...
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Uen: Penny Half Life Lab
Students will use pennies to model the half-life of radioactive atoms.
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Uen: Heavy Elements Game
Students will play the "Heavy Element" game to learn about star cycle and the formation of heavy elements in the universe.
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Uen: Dark Matter
Learners will learn about scientific method through the use of an article on dark matter.
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Uen: Heritage Gateways: Food
Click through eighteen pages of information about food and cooking as it was experienced by people traveling by wagon train to Utah, and as they began to settle into homesteads and communities. This site began as part of the 1997...
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Uen: Mathematics Grade 6 Lesson Plans
Utah Education Network :Mathematics Grade 6 Lesson Plans which the topics are statistical questions and probability.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Biotic and Abiotic Factors
This site provides a detailed lesson plan to help students grasp the concepts of biotic and abiotic. Background information is provided for the teacher and plans are given for two days.
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Uen: Cell Structures Wee Beasties
In this activity you observe photographs of cells and then make comparisons of the animal and plant cells.
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Uen: Changes in Matter Chemical Reactions They're Everywhere
Can you distinguish physical changes from chemical reactions? You'll be presented with a number of pictures and asked to identify those which are examples of chemical reactions.
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Uen: Classify Yes, but Is It Alive?
Do you know the traits something that is alive? Test your knowledge of the traits of life by identifying objects as alive, not living, or once alive.
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Uen: Gravity: Head for the Hills
Using this interactive resource will involve making predictions about the effects of gravity in different conditions.