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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mystery Mud: Exploring Changes in States of Matter

For Students 3rd - 8th
Join a group of middle-school students on a visit to a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they experiment with "mystery mud" and learn about the relationships between magnetism, particle motion, and changes in...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Building an Electromagnet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student teams investigate the properties of electromagnets. They create their own small electromagnet and experiment with ways to change its strength to pick up more paper clips. Students learn about ways that engineers use...
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Handout
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Lord Rayleigh Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Nobel e-Museum, you can read about the scientific work of Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919 CE). This article includes information on his education and experiments with light and sound waves.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Interaction at a Distance [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An experiment where students investigate the strength of magnets. This site includes a lesson plan with both teacher and student information for completing the experiment.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Cup Speaker

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity will have students creating their own speaker with a paper cup, coil of wire, and magnet. The speaker operates by changing electric current into sound.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Build a Speaker

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how to build your very own speaker with items usually found around the house. Follow step-by-step instructions and discover how to use your speaker to listen to the radio.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Whose Field Line Is It, Anyway?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students teams each use a bar magnet, sheet of paper and iron shavings to reveal the field lines as they travel around a magnet. They repeat the activity with an electromagnet made by wrapping thin wire around a nail and connecting...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Build Your Own Windmill Generator

For Students 9th - 10th
Build your own windmill and see how the wind can be converted into energy to produce electricity. This science fair project should help you understand the use of wind as a source of alternative energy. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Motor Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Create a simple device to see how a force is exerted on a current by a magnetic field. This activity shows how an electric motor can be made with this force.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Make Your Own Electric Guitar Pickup

For Students 9th - 10th
If you like playing electric guitar, this could be a cool project for you. In this project you'll wind one or more of your own electric guitar pickups and test them out in an inexpensive electric guitar to understand just how electric...
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Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
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EL Education

El Education: Forest Park Zoo

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This guide to the animals at the Forest Park Zoo was created by 1st grade students at the Alice B. Beal Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was part of a Learning expedition on animals. Students, through fieldwork...