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Exploring Buoyancy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use materials found at a resource table to design simple devices that will house instruments to take water samples from a tub of water. They design 3 instruments, each varying in density so that one will float, one will hover...
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Free Up the Ketchup!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners, in teams, use given materials and their knowledge of Newton's First Law to create a device that will remove a sticky ping pong ball from a 16-oz. cup (which represents ketchup stuck in a bottle.)
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App
Qrayon

Inkflow: Think Visually!

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Save trees! Save graphite! Save ink! Go paperless! Make a list, mindmap, sketch an idea. Import, scale, rotate, and add text to images. Save content into books and share your creations. All this and more is yours with a free visual...
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Humanities Texas

Primary Source Worksheet: Excerpt from Reagan's Farewell Address

For Students 8th - 12th
Here's a worksheet designed to help learners develop their skill reading primary source documents. The questions, based on an excerpt from Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address, encourages close reading and analysis.
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Activity
Virginia Repertory Theatre

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Accompany the story, Town Mouse Country Mouse by Jan Brett with an assortment of activities designed to reinforce concepts covering story structure, comprehension, grammar, and social studies. Here, scholars identify the difference...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Genetics and the Master Race

For Teachers 7th Standards
How did the beginnings of genetic research influence the Nazi party? A thorough, engaging unit incorporates the work of Gregor Mendel, the study of inherited traits, and the use of racism and discrimination during the Holocaust.
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Curriculum Corner

Earth Day Book

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
This Earth Day, celebrate our beautiful planet with an activity book that challenges scholars to show off their map skills, complete a crossword puzzle, write acrostic poems, alphabetize, and reflect on their personal Earth-friendly habits.
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Lead and Mercury Ion Catalase Inhibition

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students participate in a laboratory investigation in which they observe the effect of temperature and pH on enzyme activity. Students also examine exposure to heavy metal ions and the effect that may have on enzyme activity.
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Interactive
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Petro Products

For Students 5th - 12th
In this petroleum products learning exercise, students are given the components of crude oil and they graph the various products found in a 50 gallon barrel. Students complete an activity to determine if they have collected cards that...
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Education Outside

Papermaking

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Imagine recycling food scraps and using them to make paper. The directions are all here in a seven-page packet that details several paper-making strategies.
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Unit Plan
Close Up Foundation

Teach the Vote

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why is voting important? A social studies unit presents a non-partisan approach to the importance of voting, to voting laws and procedures, and to resources that voters need to become informed voters.
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University of Georgia

The Power of Peanuts

For Students 9th - 12th
Measure the amount of energy in a peanut by igniting a chemical reaction. Classes use a laboratory setup to burn a peanut and measure the amount of heat it releases through a temperature analysis. They calculate the number of Joules of...
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Evaporation of Alcohol and Water

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the process that occurs when liquids evaporaate. They test water and alcohol to determine which substance evaporates more quickly and relate the rate to energy changes.
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Acids and Bases - Vinegar II

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders experiment what happens when acids and bases are mixed together. In this acids and bases experimental lesson, 8th graders decide which of three solutions of unknown pH will neutralize a fourth solution of unknown pH.  
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What's the Matter? (Experiments)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students observe a scientific discrepant event, and are then challenged to create experiments to solve the dilemma.
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Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars are shown how temperature affects dissolved oxygen and they create a graph showing this relationship. They think about the adaptations of animals to live in different water temperatures. Students test four different water...
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Environmental Studies: The Environment Rocks!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Rock exploration, so exciting! After reading the book Everybody Needs a Rock, the class makes sandwiches to better understand that the Earth is made in layers. They then use a description of the 3 types of rock to conduct an observation...
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Worksheet
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The Chemistry of Ice Cream

For Students 5th - 8th
In this chemistry of ice cream learning exercise, learners investigate colligative properties and how they affect freezing points while making ice cream. Students answer short answer questions to determine if freezing is an endothermic...
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Water and Ice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students conduct an experiment. In this forms of water instructional activity, students observe ice to see what changes take place and then write in their journal about what they observed.
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Worksheet
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Activity 1: If I Had Ten Dollars

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this money matters worksheet, learners fill in the blank in 12 sentences pertaining to what they would if they had 10 dollars.
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Exploring Ecosystems

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate ecosystems. In this ecosystem instructional activity, 4th graders explore producers, consumers, and decomposers and study the interdependence of each.
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Seasons of the Year

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore season change. In this season change lesson ,students investigate weather events, Earth's movement and celestial events. Students watch videos and list weather events that happen in winter, spring, summer, and fall....
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Curated OER

Project Based Lesson - Civil Rights

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the Civil Rights movement. They investigate the changes in legislative, social, and civil arenas concerning the matters of race, sex, and political pacifism. In groups, students gather information concerning the...
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PPT
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Atoms : A Self Guided Computer Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"Self-guided Computer Activity" simply means that young chemists read through the slides and take notes about atoms along the way. There is an abundance of text on each slide, making this a comprehensive introduction to atomic structure....

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