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Curated OER

Character and Class

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students connect photographic images with the literary texts of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner. They identify and distinguish narrators and protagonists of literary works. Students recognize patterns of social class as a literary...
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Curated OER

Humor and Irony in Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate an understanding of humor in writing, specifically the use of irony (verbal, situational, and dramatic). They evaluate an event from his or her life that lends itself to a humorous retelling, and demonstrate an...
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Curated OER

What Shape Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars predict the shape of an unknown object by bouncing a ball on it. In this physics lesson, students relate this activity to how dolphins use echo-location to navigate. They analyze their lab result and discuss findings.
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Curated OER

Life of Thomas Edison

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students research the life of Thomas Edison. In this Thomas Edison lesson, students explore major life events of Thomas Edison. Students investigate the inventions of Thomas Edison.  Students discover how various fields of study interact...
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Curated OER

Creatures That Glow In The Night

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the different bioluminescent organisms. They use microscopes in order to make observations and draw what is seen. Students demonstrate they have studies the differences between the process of photosynthesis and...
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Curated OER

Grating Spectrometer

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students calculate the Balmer series. In this physics activity, students observe hydrogen lamp spectra using spectrometers. They calculate wavelength and compare them with their theoretical calculations.
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Curated OER

Characterization in The Ponder Heart:A Collaborative Speaking Unit

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students assess fellow student's oral narrative tales. They discuss the attributes that marked the "best" narratives. They compose their own narrative tales and interview family members. They make a final speaking presentation to the...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Physics/light

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a large collection of simple science class activities for understanding the physics of light.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Properties of Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The speed of electromagnetic waves, their wavelengths and frequencies and how to calculate wavelength or wave frequency.
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Website
Space Telescope Science Institute

Amazing Space: Star Light Star Bright

For Students 3rd - 8th
A few short, interactive activities on light waves can be found on this site. Numerous others links and teacher resources are posted here as well. A good background on light is offered for teachers.
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Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Properties and Behaviors of Heat, Light and Sound

For Students 3rd - 8th
How can scientists lump heat, light and sound together when investigating properties and behaviors? This learning module will address that question through a series of activities.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Why Do Scientists Think That Light and Sound Are Waves?

For Students 9th - 10th
Light travels as transverse waves and can travel through a vacuum. Sound travels as longitudinal waves and needs to travel through a solid, liquid or gas. Read about the properties of light and of sound, and learn the differences between...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Light and Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will investigate the properties of light waves. They will learn about the different types of electromagnetic waves and mechanical waves, and investigate the phenomena of reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What Is a Wave?

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity adapted from the University of Utah's ASPIRE Lab provides an overview of the characteristics and properties of various types of waves, including light waves, sound waves, and water waves.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Properties of Waves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this direct instruction lesson, students draw sketches in their science notebooks in order to make sense of wave properties. Resources include a slideshow presentation on the properties of waves and multiple examples of student work.
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Wave Interference

For Students 9th - 10th
Conduct virtual experiments with water, sound, and light waves to determine the sine wave and patterns created in each.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Learning Light's Properties

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers learn the basic properties of light--the concepts of light absorption, transmission, reflection and refraction, as well as the behavior of light during interference. Lecture information briefly addresses the...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and virtual simulations, students explore the properties of electromagnetic waves.
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Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Light Magic

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation discusses light and the properties of light in a storybook format. The animations cover the colors of the rainbow (ROYGBIV) along with prisms, light waves, reflection, and refraction.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Wave Optics Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A study guide for concepts related to wave optics.
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Activity
Museum of Science

The Atom's Family: Radiometer

For Students 9th - 10th
Help Dracula find out about light waves by using a virtual radiometer.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: General Properties of Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Light travels as waves. Waves can be described by their amplitude, wavelength and frequency. The speed of a wave can be calculated from its frequency and wavelength.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Waves: The Three Color Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this unit is comprised of five...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Stations of Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student groups rotate through four stations to examine light energy behavior: refraction, magnification, prisms and polarization. They see how a beam of light is refracted (bent) through various transparent mediums. While learning how a...

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