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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science instructional activity, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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Magic Wand
Students observe how an image falling on a CCD array is divided into individual pieces, by the property of persistance of vision.
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Night Hike
Students explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it works.
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Safety Words
Students with limited verbalization practice word and sign recognition of safety words using flashcards and signing.
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Vocab Quiz: Grade One Vocabulary List One
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students read 15 words in a list and draw lines to match them to the definitions in another column. Words are common sight words.
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The Connection Between Pigment and Light Colors
Students learn the procedure for mixing secondary colors from primary pigments and observe the results of mixing two primary colors.
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Breath, Eyes, Memory Study Questions and Suggested Essay Topics
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer and essay questions about Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, Eyes, Memory." Students may check some of their answers online.
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Feelin' Buggy
Students discuss five senses, compare and contrast human and insect senses, use adjectives to describe things they touch, smell, and see, and write stories in first person describing what it would be like to be size of insect.
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Eyes On Me
Students investigate the human eye. In this biology lesson, students read the book Look At Your Eyes and locate the various parts of their eye. Students play the game "I Spy."
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Tech: Ophthalmology
An optometrist, ophthalmologist, and optician are all careers related to eye health. Learners examine what it takes and how much money one can make if he decides to go into the field of ophthalmology. They explore the career through a...
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Plane Mirror Images
Students view a demonstration to investigate mirror images. In this plane mirror lesson, students view a teacher demonstration of a plane mirror and the images it creates. They use meter sticks to investigate the angles of reflection and...
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Reptiles
In this reptiles instructional activity, students identify and label the different parts of reptiles. They complete 10 short answer questions after reading the information provided in the instructional activity.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Post-Lab
Students explore optical illusions. In this Applied Science activity, students view optical illusions and record the data of what they see. Students graph the data that they collect.
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Through Other Eyes
Young scholars describe the structures of crustaceans and the features that give organisms capabilities that exceed those of humans. In this investigative instructional activity students replicate some of the features of photo-receptors...
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The Nervous System and the Effects of Drugs
In this senses worksheet, students use webbed information to answer several questions. Students read about each one of the five human senses in order to demonstrate an understanding of the material.
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Observations and Inferences
Young scholars observe how to distinguish observations form inferences. In this examining inferences lesson plan students list observations relating to the activity and discuss the importance of them.
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Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes
Eleventh graders describe and analyze the effects of poetry on readers. They participate in an Internet scavenger hunt, an exercise involving interpretation of poetry through visual art, and an opportunity for students to create their...
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Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes
Students analyze poems by Tennyson and Noyes. They identify examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile. Students create examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile.
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Finding Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students review and discuss all the different types of verbs there are to choose from and then find and circle the verbs in nineteen sentences.
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Teaching African Literature in English
Students do a research project on one of the European countries and develop the points in detail. They determine the sophistication of African tradition and culture that have been degraded by the media and write an essay from the facts...
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Hidden Values
Students split geode rocks to see that they are beautiful inside. In this geodes lesson plan, students split the geodes and talk about how they have beautiful insides just like people, even if the outsides aren't that pretty.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Color Vision
An interactive simulation that teaches about photons, monochromatic light, white light, and rainbows through changing wavelengths, beams, filters, and color combinations. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and...
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University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Color Vision
Make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. Change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or filter white light. View the light as a solid beam, or see the individual photons.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Color Vision Concepts
An indexing page from Georgia State University for a variety of other pages associated with color vision. Pages are filled with meaningful graphics and thorough explanations.