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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Memoirs Inspired by Whimpy Diary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading journal entries from The Diary of a Whimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, students brainstorm and share their own ideas with a partner. Once they have a few ideas, they choose one idea to transform into a narrative writing. The...
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Activity
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: Transformaciones Termodinamicas [In Spanish]

For Students 9th - 10th
Observe the difference between the isobars, isotherms, adiabatic, and isocore transformations.
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Website
Other

Avatar Consultants, Inc: Definition of Intensity

For Students 9th - 10th
Power, loudness, and decibel levels of sound waves are described and explained. The relative power output of various musical instruments is given.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sounds Like Music

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The lesson objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from sound, can...
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Interactive
Other

Fear of Physics: Roller Coaster

For Students 9th - 10th
Use animation and other interactive strategies to help understand physics principles. Change the track and height to see if your ball can make it to the end.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: A Comprehensive List of All the Physics Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a long list of physics formulas for easy reference.
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Website
Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on finding the fossil evidence for lithospheric plate tectonics. Inquiry-based exploration of plate tectonics evidence includes fossil distribution, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bumps and Bruises

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about the role engineers play in creating protective gear for sports. Students then build a protective landing pad to catch a dropped egg without it breaking
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Is Lactic Acid a Four Letter Word?

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay by exercise physiologist Patti Finke and fitness consultant Warren Finke describes the process by which our bodies transform food energy into energy that our cells can use.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Electricity

For Students 3rd - 4th
How does electrical energy get from one place to another? Explore how electricity is moved around and transformed into other forms of energy. (Requires Java)
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Lesson Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Dinamica De Los Ecosistemas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit shows how ecosystems change over time and how matter and energy, which are essential to its operation, are transformed and passed from one living thing to another forming, in some cases, authentic cycles. It contains 19...
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Coco Nutty Music

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from Bill Nye explains how a coconut (and the air inside it) can transform the energy of movement into a variety of interesting sounds.
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Power: Putting Charges to Work

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial the concept of how electrical energy is transformed is introduced. Learn how electric charges actually work and take the interactive quiz to assess your understanding.
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Graphic
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Special & General Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Georgia State University provides an interesting chart form of the ideas of relativity. Column 1 - Idea, Column 2 - Experiment. Each item is linked to its own page of explanation, which is well done. A nice type of...
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eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Laws of Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and how they relate to the biology of life.
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Activity
University of Michigan

University of Michigan: The Concept of the Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson looks at the definition of an ecosystem, biogeochemical cycles, and factors responsible for the differences between ecosystems.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Game: Fidgit Power

For Students 3rd - 7th
Help Fidgitville by designing wind turbines that make electricity and keep the air and water clean.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Fundamentals of Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a fundamentals of physics course taught at Yale University. The course is an introduction to physics and discusses Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravity, thermodynamics, and waves. Course...

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