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Uen: Grouping Bonds
Students will group a selection of electron dot structures and determine similarities and differences between covalent and ionic bonding.
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Uen: Periodic Table Model
Students will use "element" cards to organize into a periodic table, using the symbols on the card.
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Uen: Reactions!
Learners use colored marshmallows (representing atoms) to construct compounds and arrange them into a balanced chemical equation.
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Uen: Hotter All the T Ime
Students will establish the degree of temperature change for a reaction and then change the concentration of one reactant.
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Uen: Gathering Weather Information
Students use weather data and information found on the Internet to predict weather patterns.
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Uen: Global Issues Using Primary Sources
Lesson introduces students to how to use newspapers to understand what is currently happening in the world today.
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Uen: My Solar System
Students will use a simulation to build their own solar system discovering the relationship between gravity and motion that keeps a planet in orbit.
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Uen: How Do You Know When a Chemical Reaction Has Occurred?
With this simple Inquiry lab students will be introduced to chemical reactions.
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Uen: Types of Chemical Reactions Jigsaw
Students will perform chemical reactions for the class to observe evidence of reactions and write equations to describe the reaction.
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Uen: Carbon Cycle Web Game
Learners will explore a web game that identifies sources of carbon and the changes it goes through as it travels the carbon cycle.
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Uen: Doppler Effect
Young scholars will see and hear demonstrations of the Doppler Effect and then make an advertisement for a rock and roll band called "The Doppler Effect".
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Uen: Forces of the Solar System
Use water balloons to show the effect gravity will have on different sizes of objects in our solar system. Activity also shows how inertia works.
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Uen: Greenhouse Effect and Surface Radiation
Students will design a controlled experiment to demonstrate the greenhouse effect and the effect of different surfaces on light reflection.
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Uen: Hot and Cold
Students study the energy associated with physical and chemical changes. The activity consists of observing nine phenomena.
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Uen: Isotopic Dating Activity
Learners will do research relating half-life and the age of radioactive substances on interesting topics.
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Uen: Soil P H
Students will test soils they bring from their neighborhoods for pH.
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Uen: Nitrogen Cycle Stream Side Science
Students will learn about the nitrogen cycle through discussion and the construction of a diagram.
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Uen: Size of Solar System vs. Size of Our Galaxy
Students will use an informational text to learn about the concept and practice their mathematical reasoning skills.
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Uen: Tectonic Project
Learners will create a unique project to demonstrate their understanding of plate tectonics.
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Uen: The Periodic Table and the Universe
Learners will apply the atomic number of elements on the periodic table to the origin of heavy elements in the star cycle.
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Uen: Energy Transfers
Students will model and measure energy transfers from light to heat.
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Uen: Who Lives in the Water? Stream Side Science
In this exercise, students will collect and observe macroinvertebrates in an aquatic system. They will record and summarize their findings.
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Uen: Our World: Africa
Click on the Country's Flag to view its location on Earth.
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Uen: Our World: Europe
Click on the Country's Flag to view its location on Earth.