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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rocket Me Into Space

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
One of the exciting challenges for engineers is the idea of exploration. This lesson looks more closely at Spaceman Rohan, Spacewoman Tess, their daughter Maya, and their challenges with getting to space, setting up satellites, and...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Physics/mechanics (Force and Motion)

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of mechanics activities. Many pertain to Newton's laws of motion. Step-by-step directions provided with illustrations. Great for teacher demos or student projects.
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PPT
Tramline

Tramline: Tornado Field Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this virtual field trip students learn about the formation of tornadoes. Students also visit websites where they can research various types of information about tornadoes.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Do Hurricanes Cool the Ocean?

For Students 9th - 10th
If you've ever so much as watched a news clip about a hurricane, you probably know that hurricanes draw their power from warm ocean waters. If that is true, does it mean that hurricanes actually cool the ocean down when they pass...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Does a Wind Meter Work?

For Students 3rd - 5th
On a windy day it is hard to keep your hat on. The power of the wind can even be strong enough to power large wind turbines to make electricity. In this experiment, find out how you can make your own instrument to measure the speed and...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Weather Scope: A Study of Weather and Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use real-time data to study factors that affect weather and climate, create weather instruments, and share data with students around the world.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: What Is a Barometer?

For Teachers 4th
Learn about the barometer and how it helps to predict the weather.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Measuring Wind Speed

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders measure wind speed over the course of a week and graph the results.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You: Lift

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students revisit Bernoulli's Principle (Lesson 1 of the Airplanes unit) and learn how engineers use this principle to design airplane wings. Airplane wings create lift by changing the pressure of the air around it. This is the first of...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Build Your Own Weather Station

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are guided in how to build their own weather station that will measure temperature, humidity, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, and wind direction and speed.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Best Amount of Water to Fly a Bottle Rocket

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this rocket experiment, students will investigate the question, "Which amount of water will cause the rocket to stay in the air the longest?" Students will compare how long the rocket was in the air with how much water was in the...
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Circulation in the Atmosphere Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on circulation in the atmosphere. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Observed Dew Point Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what dew point is and how it relates to moisture content of the air. Also explains condensation and relative humidity.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bernoulli Levitator

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity illustrates Bernoulli principle by suspending an object in the air by blowing down on it.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How meteorologists create and read weather maps.
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Read Works

Read Works: Weather : An Introduction to Weather

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Requires free membership.T his passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Smoke and Mirrors

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students develop a persuasive peer-to-peer case against smoking, with the goal to understand how language usage can influence perception, attitudes and behavior.
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Other

National Physical Laboratory: The History of Length Measurement

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides historic information on length measurement in the United Kingdom. Click on the topics on the left toolbar of the article to find out more information.
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PBS

Pbs the Life of Birds: Evolution and Anatomy of Flight

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan, designed to accompany the PBS series "Life of Birds," explores how environmental pressures influenced the evolution of wings, how natural selection resulted in the diversity of bird species, and the mechanics of bird...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Temperature Volume Relationship of a Gas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab activity where young scholars investigate the relationship between temperature and volume using a plastic syringe with a stopper. The syringe, filled with trapped air, is placed in a hot and a cold water bath, and temperature and...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Gas Mixture and Molecular Speeds

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Hike to the top of Mt. Everest and observe what happens to the amount of molecules pushing down on the surface of the Earth. After the activity, answer one challenge question about the topic.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lab Work: Come Fly With Me

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site by the Illinois Institute of Technology lets students use a vacuum cleaner hose, ping pong balls, straws and other materials to investigate the effect of moving air upon the surfaces which it hits. Principles are applied as...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of weather and climate, and the difference between them.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa: Flight: What Is Lift?

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the role lift plays in airplane take-off and flight.

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