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Edible Soil

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students model the soils layers using Oreo's. In this activity students use their favorite food items to create a model of soil layers. A discovery activity from a youth camp is adapted for classroom modeling and discussion of soil...
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Energy Efficiency at Home: An Interdisciplinary Module for Energy Education

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine energy efficiency and how they use energy at home.  In this energy conservation lesson students complete several science activities that give students a better understanding of energy.
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Edible Coal Mining

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the concept of bituminous coal and the role it plays within our world.  In this economic and earth science lesson, pupils discover and model the extraction methods with hands-on activities.  Learners also...
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Discovering and Converting the Battle of Homestead

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars study and explore the Homestead strike and locate where the events took place.  In this investigative lesson students use several perspectives to write an objective newspaper article on the event. 
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Machinery In Society

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore technology by completing a worksheet in class. In this common machinery lesson plan, students define the different designs that make simple machines work such as wheels, pulleys and gears. Students utilize verbs to...
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Applied Science - Built Environment Pre Lab (Morse Code)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students study communication. In this telegraph lesson, students examine Morse code and the composition of an elementary telegraph circuit. They listen to a presentation and try to create Morse Code messages on a worksheet. This lesson...
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Teaching the Scientific Method Using Adhesives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research on the history of adhesives. In this science lesson, students select one test to use in finding the stickiness of adhesives. They collect data and formulate a conclusion.
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Simple Circuits

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate how series and parallel circuits work. In this physics lesson, students build their own simple circuits and compare their characteristics. They explain the importance of circuit breakers in household circuits.
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Too Hot to Handle

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students identify sources of geothermal energy. They watch videos and investigate the sources of geothermal energy.
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Coal and the Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read about how burning coal affects the environment. After students finish reading about how burning coal affects the environment they have a group discussion to discuss what they thought about the information.
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Zapping Fish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore whether fish get electrocuted when the lightning strikes a lake.
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Gearing Up for Wi-Fi Life

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students discover how wi-fi works in walkie talkies and computers. They also examine wi-fi wireless network coverage areas and campus locations in which data was taken to measure usage. They complete graphs based on the usage for...
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Watt's Up

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners analyze energy efficiency in lighting by visiting eight different classroom stations, determine cost vs. light output, graph their results, and answer questions on worksheet.
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Forces And Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the atom and how it is formed. They conduct research using a variety of resources and then construct a model of the atom. Then students have class discussion. The lesson includes background information for...
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Water Consumption, Pricing and Conservation in Utah.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the research report that measures the levels of water usage for Utah. They focus on conservation efforts that are currently being used. They reflect upon their own amount of water usage and research methods of...
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Power, Pollution, Pros and Cons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils review what they know about non-renewable energy, compare and contrast advantages and drawbacks of each type, such as cost of energy sources, feasibility, air pollution, water pollution, and other risks, and create table listing...
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Tessel Your Way to Nagano!: Olympics, Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Design, Geometry, Math, M.C. Escher, Tessellations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create Post-It note fundamental regions to tesselate. They make tesselations using computer software or websites. They create a jacket design with tesselation and determine the cost of production.
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Teaching The Scientific Method Using Adhesives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use the six step scientific method to experiment with the differences in adhesives. Students test for tack, shear, and peel in these activities.
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Scientists at Work: What'll they think of next?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars explore scientific discovery while watching a video. They, in groups, are to research a scientific invention and present their findings to the class.
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Skates

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify the unique parts of the body of skates and their egg cases.
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Changing the Water in the Aquarium

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover the importance and how to change the water in an aquarium. As a class, they review the types of impurities that are found in water and discuss how to keep the tank as clean as possible. They develop a water change...
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Preventing Household Hazards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify how household materials can be hazardous to themselves and family members. Precautions for preventing and/or minimizing various hazards are discussed as a class. Working in pairs, students create a directory of...
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Blast's Cosmic Carnival

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils, after analyzing the history of a concentrator, model how a Genesis spacecraft concentrator works by playing a game. In groups of three or four, after being given materials to work with, are challenged to roll the rubber balls so...
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Which Came First?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students distinguish between the past and present with the concept of the Utah Quarter Reverse. They make lists that give possible meanings of the terms "past" and "present". Then students write reflectively from research about the...

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