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Student Power Use

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students calculate the energy usage in their bedroom. In this physics lesson, students compare their energy consumption during school days and weekends. They recommend ways to save energy.
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Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree…You Might Become Famous

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore Newton's laws using CEENBoTs. In this physics lesson, students collect data and create tables and graphs. They calculate speed, acceleration and forces using mathematical formulas.
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Wheels on the Bot Go Round and Round, Part II

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students hypothesize about the relationship between tire size of CEENBoT and ability to move a load. For this physics lesson, students design an experiment to test their hypothesis. They record results and formulate their conclusion.
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Aeronautics: Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore physics by participating in a science activity in class. In this flight properties lesson, students identify Bernoulli's principle of flight and his theory of statics and motion. Students conduct a demonstration by...
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Intelligence Preference

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders describe how light behaves when it strikes a surface. In this physics lesson, 8th graders investigate how the different types of mirrors reflect light. They work with their chosen group on a task they selected.
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Density and Buoyancy Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate why some objects float or sink in water. For this physics lesson, students calculate the density of clay ball using a mathematical equation. They write a complete lab report about the experiment.
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Fitness Obstacle Course

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students run through an obstacle course to practice jumping, vaulting, pull-ups, and other physical endeavors. The obstacles are set up in a gymnasium, and students rotate through each task.
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More Body Parts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, using Total Physical Response strategies, learn additional body parts in Spanish.
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Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, working in groups, role play skits highlighting healthy eating habits and physical activities.
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Able Sports

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students work together to design a new sport for disabled persons. They share their new sport with the class. They discover how mechanical and biomedical engineers use information to test prosthetics.
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Christmas Shopping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work in teams in teams of two and they have a hula hoop which represents their shopping bag and two hockey sticks to gather presents. They use the other side of the gym that has bean bags and fleece balls, which are scattered...
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Properties of Matter

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how objects can be described, classified and compared by their composition. They recognize that the same material can exist in different states. Students verify that things can be done to materials to change...
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Shooting Baskets-Relay Game

For Teachers K - 5th
Students demonstrate how to shoot baskets during a relay race. In this physical education lesson, students work in teams and shoot basketballs into the hoops as fast as they can. Each person must make one shot. The first team to finish...
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Team Handball

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in a team handball game. In this physical education lesson, students are introduced to offensive strategies and implement them into the handball game. Students perform a stretching routine at the end of activity.
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Frog Olympics

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the attributes of amphibians. In this physical frog biology lesson plan, students discover facts about the muscles of frogs and then play 2 games that require them to move like frogs.
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Oh Panther

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners play a game that replicates the balance of prey and predators in an ecosystem. In this physical education lesson plan, students follow the instructions to play "Oh Panther!" Learners collect data regarding the game and discuss...
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How Do You Move Along the Earth?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine their own walking and running velocity. In this physics instructional activity, students calculate velocity using distance and time information. They compare human and animal speeds.
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Eating to Win

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine human health by completing a sports nutrition worksheet. In this eating habits lesson, students discuss the importance of a balanced diet and proper feeding times when competing in physical activities. Learners complete...
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An Alien Periodic Table

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a periodic table based on the physical and chemical properties of elements. In this chemistry lesson, students share their work with the class and explain why they classified the elements that way.
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A Cut Above the Rest Administration Procedures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze how the Law of Conservation of Energy applies to the design and use of scissors. Working in groups, they determine the output work for a standard pair of scissors.
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Momentum

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils explore the concept of momentum. For this physics lesson, students observe and compare two "carts" being released to move in various situations, and draw conclusions as to why the carts moved or didn't move.
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Flower Power: An Introduction to Heredity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students observe flowers and how they grow according to heredity. In this flowers lesson plan, students observe physical traits that make flowers the offspring of other flowers, and fill out worksheets according to their findings.
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Flip Flop

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils participate in a stretching warm-up exercise. In this physical education lesson, students warm up the large muscle groups by standing on their hands and legs in a belly up position or a belly down position. Pupils flip their...
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Friction Restriction: Creating a Design Plan to Redesign the Tread of Tennis Sneakers to Increase Friction

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students evaluate the friction of tennis sneakers and redesign them to increase friction. In this physics lesson, students calculate starting, sideways and forward stopping friction. Using quantitative data, they prove that redesigning...

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