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Fighting The Horse Race: Creating Ads Which Explore 2008 Presidential Candidates & Issues
What is advertising? What role does it plan in an election? Middle and high schoolers discuss advertising and its purpose by sifting through different magazines and discussing the products they find. Then they relate advertisements to...
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8th Grade Math Worksheet
In this linear equations worksheet, 8th graders solve 10 different problems that include various types of linear equations. First, they write the distance between Venus and the Sun in scientific notation. Then, students determine the...
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Detecting Breast Cancer
Young scholars develop a painless means for identifying cancerous tumors. In this imaging lesson students list the information that may be needed to answer the problem.
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Sampling Rocks
Learners analyze rocks. In this geology lesson, students collect rocks from the schoolyard and sort them according to various characteristics, such as color, size, and weight.
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Tissue Vases
You can transform recycled containers into beautiful vases with this step-by-step lesson plan. Using tissue paper and watercolor paints will result in a gorgeous project, great for a Mother's Day gift in May!
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2D Project: Deep Space
Using a digital camera, Photoshop, and a desktop paint program, learners will explore perspective techniques. They apply perspective techniques to develop depth illusions within a scene. The lesson employs both traditional art and...
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Write a Tanka Poem
In this Tanka poem worksheet, 6th graders analyze a Tanka poem for number of syllables and content parameters, then write one about a journey, real or imagined using the 6 step writing process.
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Vocabulary Development and Writing
Engage pupils in practicing denotative and connotative strategies to understand particular words. They work in pairs and write a series of sentences using each word that has a positive connotation and negative connotation. Some example...
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Living Together as One
The ultra-glamorous Muppet, Miss Piggy, launches a study of discrimination and ways to develop a more inclusive community. A series of videos and activities raise awareness of discrimination and journal prompts asks participants to...
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Telegraph System
In this telegraph system worksheet, students design a telegraph station and answer 4 questions about the voltage, the resistor values and various modifications made to their design.
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Details from an Exploding Star
In this nebula worksheet, students read about the Crab Nebula and calculate the average speed of the expanding gas. They determine the size of the smallest clumps of gas and they draw the diameter of the solar system to scale.
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The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students spin separate colors into a new color just as the Magic School Bus kids did.
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A Related Rate Problem
In this algebra worksheet, students calculate the rate of change as it relates to height and length. This is a word problem with 3 specific math questions as to how Frank S. Key came up with the song "Me and My Shadow"
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Energy Transformations
Students investigate energy and energy transformations. They compare the various forms of energy, create the circuit and sketch the connections. In addition, they label the circuit to identify areas where energy transformation is present.
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Using Plant Pigments as Natural Dyes
Students create friendship bracelets and quilt squares. In this plant lesson plan student dye their own string and cotton material with plant pigments. Students use the naturally dyed materials to create the friendship bracelets and...
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Designing a Germination Experiment
Learners explore botany by participating in a seed experiment. In this plant nutrition activity, students define several science experiment vocabulary terms like observation, treatment, and replicate. Learners utilize soaked seeds in a...
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Atomic Structure - Part A
Learners describe the structure of atoms, including the particles that make them up. They recognize that key scientists and experiments have contributed to the changes
in the Atomic Theory.
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Comma Exercise 2
In this comma exercise worksheet, students are given ten sentences to proofread and edit inserting commas where appropriate.
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Unit Conversion Problems
In this unit conversion worksheet, students solve 15 problems by using conversion factors to find their answers. They show all their work and express their answers in scientific notation with the proper number of significant figures.
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Switches
In this switches worksheet, students solve 18 problems about types of switches, circuits, the voltage of the switches, the contact status and the number of poles and throws in switches.
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AC Waveforms
In this AC waveforms worksheet, students answer ten questions about AC voltage, frequencies of waveforms and they interpret diagrams of AC voltage.
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A Piecemeal Peace Process
Young scholars explore Indian and Pakistani steps toward peace since the Indian subcontinent gained independence from British rule in 1947. They, in groups, research and then create multi-tiered timelines representing politics during...
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Science of Special Effects
This is a creative, multidisciplinary, well-designed lesson provided by Scientific American related to special effects. Students make their own animated short films and use math and computer skills.
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Wasting Energy at Home
Students act as energy conservation engineers and identify the ways energy is conserved or wasted. They also discover many ways to personally conserve energy everyday. Students discover how engineers perform home energy audits to...