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Electric Power Transmission and Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how power is transmitted over long distances. In this physics lesson, students simulate controlling power flow in parallel transmission lines. They discuss several applications of wireless power transmission.
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The President's Cabinet: Choosing the Right Person for the Job

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students examine the Federal Confirmation Process for filling cabinet members by completing a confirmation process flow chart. They research the process, and participate in a mock Confirmation Process.
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Properties of Materials - Part B

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the history of materials. They use the kinetic (particle) theory to explain changes of state in matter and trace the flow of heat during changes of state and chemical changes.
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Watershed Landscape

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate how water flows by building a human watershed using themselves. In this ecology instructional activity, students compare and contrast point-source and non-point source pollution. They write what they have learned...
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Classifying Chemical Reactions

For Students 6th - 12th
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students follow a flow chart to determine what type of reaction is occurring. Students then classify reactions and balance the equations. This worksheet has 2 short answer and 10 fill in the blank.
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Organic Chemistry Practice Exam 3

For Students Higher Ed
For this organic chemistry worksheet, students solve nine problems including predicting products of organic molecules, drawing mechanisms for reactions and drawing free energy diagrams.
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Chem 152-Electrochemistry

For Students 10th - 12th
In this electrochemistry activity, students solve a variety of problems including identifying parts of oxidation and reduction reactions, writing balanced equations for galvanic cells, determining free energy and equilibrium constants...
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Electromagnetic Pick-up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate electromagnetic energy. In this magnetism instructional activity, students will create an electromagnet and test changes with increased energy. They will compete by building the strongest electromagnet.
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The Environment and You

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the human environmental impact and discover ways to lessen effects. They create a pollution damage flow chart and write down what they think Mother Earth might say. They create inventions from recyclable materials.
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Evidence of Climate Change

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine climate change in the state of Colorado. In this climate lesson, 6th graders watch 2 video clips regarding the topic and research the subtopics- snow pack, precipitation, temperature, forest fires, river flow,...
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Solar Cell Simulation

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe how energy moves from the Sun to the photovoltaic cell to the wire and to the load. In this solar cell simulation lesson, 2nd graders demonstrate the movement of photons and electrons to emulate how solar energy...
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Hazards: Third Grade Lesson Plans and Activities

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Learners discover hazards related to volcanoes and predict the effects these hazards have on people and land. As blossoming geologists explore various volcanic eruptions, including the hazards associated with them, they...
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The Water Cycle Game

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Take young scientists on a trip through the water cycle with this interactive science activity. After setting up a series of ten stations representing the different places water can be found, children use the included printable dice...
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Texas State Energy Conservation Office

Investigation: Concept Mapping Fuels

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After reading an article, "Fuels for Everything," collaborative groups create a concept map poster of the transportation and non-transportation fuels. This makes a strong introduction to the different types of fuels used for transportion...
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Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative

Save the Penguins: An Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Heat things up in your physical science class with this interactive lesson series on thermodynamics. Through a series of class demonstrations and experiments, young scientists learn how heat is transferred through conduction,...
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Circle of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils consider why we eat and where our food obtains its energy. They illustrate food chains that might be found on an open field, dissect owl pellets, identify the remains of animals in the pellets, watch videos and participate in...
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Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how to use ecological analysis to animal production systems.  In this sustainable agriculture lesson students examine where the nutrients flow in a system and complete several activities. 
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Food Web Follies

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders cut and paste animal pictures to create a food web and trace the path of energy. They write a paragraph explaining the importance of photosynthesis in all food webs.
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Marine Food Webs

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine how food webs illustrate the ways in which organisms depend on each other for energy and nutrients, and make food webs showing the feeding relationships among organisms encountered in the Gal??pagos coastal waters.
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Thar She Blows!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify the advantages and disadvantages of wind farms and turbines. They examine how weather conditions can affect their effectiveness and how engineers are trying to solve the problem. They discover how engineers use this...
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Burning Waste Coal

For Students 9th - 12th
In this coal worksheet, high schoolers compare the process of cogeneration with other process for generating power. Students determine what happens to the waste coal. This worksheet has 2 short answer and 8 true and false questions.
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How is a REDOX Reaction Used to Power a Car?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore electrolysis and Redox reactions.  In this exploratory lesson students demonstrate an example of electrolysis and how it brings on a chemical change. 
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The Physical Setting

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine chemical reactions.  In this chemistry lesson students choose an investigation that they wish to perform based on their interest.
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Physical Science Review 5th Grade

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this review of physical science instructional activity, students use recall to answer multiple choice questions about electricity and chemical changes. Students answer 25 questions.

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