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Other

Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: Impact!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students complete a hands-on experiment making craters by dropping objects from different heights into flour. Students then explore the craters' differences, based on the objects that were dropped to create them.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: An Inflated Impression of Mars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this activity is to use scaling in order to give students an idea of the size of Mars in relation to the Earth and the Moon as well as the distance between them. The students will have to calculate dimensions of the scaled...
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Lesson Plan
University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas Mc Donald Observatory: Shadow Play

For Teachers K - 1st
Everyone and everything has a shadow. Shadows illustrate how three-dimensional objects can be viewed in two dimensions.