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Asia Pacific Economics Blog: Mountaintop Removal Pros and Cons

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the environmental and human impact of mountaintop coal mining, a practice which blasts the tops off mountains and distributes the displaced rocks and soils into the rivers and valleys below. The pros and cons of this type of...
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The Newberry Library

Newberry: Settlement and Migration: Map 6: Indian Removal, Oklahoma Land Rush

For Teachers K - 1st
Lessons for all ages on the European quest for land and the displacement of Native Americans during the late 1800s. Lessons use maps and supplemental material.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Tennessee Valley Authority and Marshall County

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create computer models based both on contemporary maps and primary sources to explore the role of the Tennessee Valley Authority's hydroelectric projects in altering more than 75 miles of the natural landscape and in...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 2 D Projectile Motion: Identifying Graphs for Projectiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Match graphs with the correct scenario for the projectile motion by understanding velocity, acceleration, and displacement.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 2 D Projectile Motion: Vectors and Comparing Multiple Trajectories

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice problems dealing with displacement, velocity, and acceleration vectors for horizontally launched projectiles. In these practice problems, students will compare initial speed and time in the air for multiple projectiles.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Velocity vs. Time Graphs?

For Students 9th - 10th
How to analyze graphs that relate velocity and time to acceleration and displacement.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Instantaneous Velocity and Speed From Graphs Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key terms and skills related to analyzing motion graphs, such as finding velocity from position vs. time graphs and displacement from velocity vs. time graphs.
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A&E Television

History.com: How Interstate Highways Gutted Communities and Reinforced Segregation

For Students 9th - 10th
America's interstate highway system cut through the heart of dozens of urban neighborhoods. Congress approved the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, authorizing what was then the largest public works program in U.S. history. It promised to...
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A&E Television

History.com: History on a Plate: How Native American Diets Shifted After European Colonization

For Students 9th - 10th
For centuries, Indigenous people's diets were totally based on what could be harvested locally. Then white settlers arrived from Europe. Native people pass down information - including food traditions - from one generation to the next...
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A&E Television

History.com: Hurricane Katrina

For Students 9th - 10th
Early in the morning on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. While the storm itself did a great deal of damage, its aftermath was catastrophic Levee breaches led to massive flooding, the federal...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Anishinabe Ojibwe Chippewa: Culture

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Though written for grades 3-5, this lesson plan can be easily changed to help students of all ages learn about the Chippewa people. Additional resources provide historical, cultural, and geographical facts concerning this Native American...
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NOAA

Noaa: Boat Building Challenge [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th
Read to find out about the first boat builders. Construct your own boat out of common materials to explore buoyancy.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Buoyancy Brainteasers: Buoyancy Question

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA: "Voyage of Doom" Web site challenges you to figure out what causes an object to sink.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Much Weight Can Your Boat Float?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have you ever wondered how a ship made of steel can float? In this project you'll investigate how much weight boat hulls of various shapes and sizes can support without sinking.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Moving Water With the Archimedes Screw Pump

For Students 3rd - 8th
Amaze your friends and family by moving water with just a few turns of your wrist, this is known as an Archimedes screw. In this science project, you will build a very simple Archimedes screw, to transfer water from a low-lying location...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Acceleration?

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides definitions, examples, and formulas for acceleration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Velocity vs. Time Graphs?

For Students 9th - 10th
Graphs and examples help explain what the vertical axis, slope, and area represent on a velocity-time graph.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are the Kinematic Formulas?

For Students 9th - 10th
Featured are the kinematic formulas or main equations you can use to analyze situations with constant acceleration.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Taking the Boat to Manaus

For Teachers 5th
In this activity, the students will apply the concepts they learned regarding mass, volume and density in the previous activities to design a boat.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Test a Beam

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students measure different types of small-sized beams and calculate their respective moments of inertia. They compare their calculations to how much the beams bend when loads are placed on them, gaining insight into the ideal geometry...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Types of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will distinguish between and/or interpret the types of motion.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Direction

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete lesson/tutorial on vectors. Learn about vector addition, vector resolution, vector components, and resultants. Numerous examples and learning exercises are provided.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Will It Float?

For Teachers 1st
Learn why some things will float or sink.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: 3 D Space & Size

For Students K - 1st Standards
Discover the characteristics of 3D shapes in this fantasy world of fish.

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