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Social Psychology
This Sparknotes quiz on social psychology includes 10 multiple choice questions that address attraction, persuasion, group polarization, and conformity. Test-takers submit their answers online for immediate feedback.
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Drops on a Penny
For this surface tension worksheet, students predict how many drops of water they can put on a coin. They test their hypothesis and repeat their experiment three times. They record their data and average their trials.
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Magnetic Car
In this magnetic car worksheet, students learn how to use simple household items to create a magnetic car. Students learn that magnets have two poles and when the same poles face each other it causes a force of repulsion which moves the...
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Magnetic Testing
Students explore magnetism. They make observations of everyday items regarding their magnetic attraction and use their experiences to make a prediction.
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Magnets are Attractive!!!
Learners experiment with magnets. In this magnet lesson, students listen to the story What Makes a Magnet? by Franklin M. Branley. They explore different magnets to see what they attract and repulse and view their effect on compasses.
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Magnets and Springs
In this magnetism worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by predicting which of the 7 pictured objects will be attracted to a magnet and which ones will not. They write their own experiment about whether an object will or will...
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The Ideal Gas
In this ideal gas worksheet, students read about the conditions necessary for an ideal gas to exist. They also read about the deviations from the ideal gas situation and answer four questions about ideal gases.
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How is Lightning Formed
Learners research lightning paying particular attention to how it is formed, where it is most likely to occur, and how most people struck by lightning survive.
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Thunderstorms
Fourth graders investigate the attraction between two different charges to explain the concept of lightning in a thunderstorm.
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What Does a Magnet Attract?
In this magnet worksheet, students write in what happens when a magnet is placed near iron. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Dinosaur Jokes
In this science worksheet, students use the key code found on the right to locate the answers to each of the bad dinosaur jokes. Then they write out the answer to the joke.
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Static Cling
Fifth graders examine the principles of static electricity and positive and negative charges. They observe and then perform experiments with static electricity. They record examples in their journals.
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Magnetism: Magnet, Magnet, Where are you?
Students study the characteristics of magnets including polarity, and the concepts of attraction and repulsion. They examine how magnets are used industry.
INTERNET Red 2000
All About Spain: Travel and Tourism
An extensive index of information about Spain and Spanish culture. It contains photo tours, city guides, a traveler's yellow pages, and a country and culture section filled with useful information.
INTERNET Red 2000
All About Spain: Todo Sobre Espana
An extensive index of information about Spain and Spanish culture. It contains photo tours, city guides, a traveler's yellow pages, and a country and culture section filled with useful information. In Spanish and German also.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Moths
Scientists conduct an experiment to learn about moths' attraction to light in this video segment from WILD TV. [4:10]
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Rubbing Up Against Static Electricity
A tried and true balloon activity is to rub a balloon on your head to make your hair stand up. Learn how the rubbing builds up static electricity using this experiment to see if the number of rubs makes a difference.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Charge and Coulomb's Law
Learning about charge and forces of attraction will be keys to understanding electrostatics and the basis of this learning unit. Developing a greater understanding of charge and the charge model is necessary to understanding electricity.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Gravitational Force
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the gravitational attraction between objects of different masses at...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Magnet Attraction
What is a magnet? In this activity, students will investigate magnets and what they attract. They will observe, explore, ask questions, predict outcomes, then discuss and record their findings.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Attraction
Romantic chemistry is all about warm, gooey feelings that gush from the deepest depths of the heart right? Not quite. Actually, the real boss behind attraction is your brain, which runs through a very quick, very complex series of...
University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame: Interpersonal Attraction
Explores the many factors that play a role in our attraction to other people, including physical attractiveness, helpfulness, and similarity.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation: Lesson 3
This lesson will describe Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation."
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Surface Tension
Explore the chemical properties involved in surface tension.