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An Apple a Day

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore how to make careful observations and gain valuable practice in drawing what they observe. They stimulate questions about the changes occurring in the apple. Students have an opportunity to ask questions that can...
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Lesson Plan
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Watt's Up with the Electricity Bill?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study of how much electricity is used in their home and the actual cost for the electricity. They create a realistic conservation plan for their home focusing on the areas that tend to use a great deal of electricity....
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Worksheet
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Weather

For Students 4th - 8th
In this weather learning exercise, students will match 4 weather terms to their correct definition. Vocabulary words include wind, weather, air mass, and front. Then students will complete 3 short answer questions based on high and low...
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Worksheet
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Rocks Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, middle schoolers look for the words that are related to the concept that is reviewed in the sheet. They also acquire new vocabulary.
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Organizer
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Hydrologic Cycle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students examine the hydrological cycle through the coloring of the picture that graphically organizes the concept.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Science Word Search

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this science worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to earth science. There are 44 words/phrases located in the puzzle.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Living in the Desert: Reading Comprehension

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension learning exercise, students read a short selection about sand gazelles, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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Organizer
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The Water Cycle

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this worksheet on the water cycle, students read a short passage about the water cycle, located beneath a graphic organizer showing the cycle in pictures with labels.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Weather Vocabulary

For Students 3rd
For this weather worksheet, 3rd graders study words pertaining to all aspects of weather. Students respond to 19 questions, matching the vocabulary words on the left with the correct definition on the right.
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Worksheet
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Mixed Prepositions 12-ESL

For Students 5th - 6th
In this preposition worksheet, students complete a given text, choosing the correct prepositions. Students click on a "check answers" button for immediate feedback.
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Lesson Plan
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Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners read a recipe of beef jerky and explore the process. In this agriculture recipe lesson plan, students read the process and recipe for creating beef jerky. Learners also read a history of the American Plains Indians and their use...
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Water

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine water, its function and how much you should consume.  In this water lesson plan students study water and why it is important, how much you should drink and what its functions are in your body. 
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Curated OER

Rock Sorting Activity

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students organize rock samples according to their properties. In this earth science activity, students predict whether they are igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary. They compare their prediction with the actual type.
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Other

King County Court House: Heating & Cooling Curves [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is a lab that will teach you about heating and cooling curves.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Just Keep Cool How Evaporation Affects Heating and Cooling

For Students 9th - 10th
When we get hot, we sweat. The physiological role of sweat is to cool us down. When the water evaporates, it removes energy from our bodies. This sort of evaporative cooling can also be used to cool homes, using what are referred to as...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Heating and Cooling

For Students 2nd - 4th
A tutorial reviewing the states of matter and the effects of heating and cooling matter in the different states. (Note: some of the links may not load in the archived version of the site.)
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Changing the State of Matter Using Heating and Cooling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will investigate how different materials changed when heated or cooled. The process in developing the investigation will be inquiry based. Students will have the liberty in choosing the materials and devising how...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Greenland: How Can Heat and Cooling Change Materials?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Nanook wants to learn to cook. In order to cook, she first needs to learn how things can change when they are heated or cooled.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Heating and Cooling Curves

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the interactive cooling curve graph as a tool to answer two challenge questions about temperature change in the fossil fuel, Naphthalene.
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American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Changing the Density of a Liquid: Heating and Cooling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will investigate whether the temperature of water affects its density. Students will place colored hot and cold water in a cup of room-temperature water to see that cold water sinks while hot water floats. Then...
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Graphic
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Heating and Cooling a Liquid

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation allows students to make observations about how particle motion changes as the overall temperature of a liquid changes.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Newton's Law of Cooling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers come to see the exponential trend demonstrated through the changing temperatures measured while heating and cooling a beaker of water. This task is accomplished by first appealing to students' real-life heating and...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot Potato, Cool Foil

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore material properties by applying some basic principles of heat transfer. They use calorimeters to determine the specific heat of three substances: aluminum, copper and another of their choice. Each substance is cooled in...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: North Sea: Denmark: What Happens When Materials Are Heated or Cooled?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Did you know that water has different states? Learn all about it with Boris in Copenhagen.

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