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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Muscle Fiber Contraction and Relaxation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides young learners with information regarding muscle fiber contraction and relaxation.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Chemical Hair Relaxing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson we will be exploring the world of chemical relaxing. This lesson will serve as a basic guide to the process of using chemicals to permanently straighten the hair. Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Flight Gadget Rules to Be Relaxed

For Students 1st - 5th
Article reports on new rules in Europe relaxing restrictions on the use of electronic devices during air travel.
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Chaotic Electric Circuit Explorer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation investigating the characteristics of two electrical circuits that exhibit chaotic behavior, Chua's circuit and an autonomous relaxation oscillator (ARO), by adjusting the settings.
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Graphic
Curated OER

A View on Cities: New York: Relaxing at the High Line

For Students 9th - 10th
Relaxing at the High Line (New York)
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Interactive
Knowledge Share

Super Kids: Games of Logic and Reasoning

For Students 9th - 10th
Have your students completed their work? If so, allow them to enjoy some mind relaxing, yet challenging, games at this site. I'm sure you'll get caught up in the fun too.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Relaxing in the Country

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Relaxing in the Country", created by Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater from 1730-35 (Oil on canvas).
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Professional Doc
Edutopia

Edutopia: Activities That Prime the Brain for Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Brain breaks and focused attention practices help students feel relaxed and alert and ready to learn. Brain breaks create a state of relaxed alertness, while focused attention practices help students slow down and focus on a stimulus....
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Air Particles and Air Quality

For Students 3rd - 5th
What does the phrase, "Like a breath of fresh air," mean to you? This common phrase can have different meanings: calming, relaxing, invigorating, energizing or clean. In this experiment you will test the quality of air by measuring the...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Make a Hygrometer With Strands of Hair

For Students 6th - 8th
Does your hair go crazy when the weather turns damp? Did you know that strands of hair can relax and lengthen when the humidity increases and then contract again when the humidity decreases? In fact, hair strands can be used as the basis...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Multitasking: Brain Drain or Boost in Efficiency?

For Students 9th - 10th
Think it's a good idea to plug into iTunes, surf the Web, or watch TV while doing homework or trying to read? Many people do it and claim that jumping from one activity to another keeps their attention level up and even gives their brain...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Time Is Money

For Students 3rd - 5th
By applying principles of industrial engineering and time management, you will learn how you can speed through your chores and still have time to kick back and relax. You will also learn that time-efficiency is not the only factor...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viscoelasticity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concept of viscoelasticity and some of the material behaviors of viscoelastic materials, including strain rate dependence, stress relaxation, creep, hysteresis and preconditioning. Viscoelastic material...
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Family Camping: York Beach, Maine

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cate family is on vacation at Decatur Motor Camp, York Beach, on the southern coast of Maine. It's late afternoon and the Cates are settling down after their day. Mrs. Cate and her daughter are preparing dinner in the trailer; Mr....
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Website
Science Museum, London

Making the Modern World: Stress Management

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains 7 chapters dealing with stress and ways to deal with it along with links to related materials.
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Website
Other

Museum of Web Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating site devoted to art and graphics used on the world wide web. Explore the best in buttons, banners, counters, and more.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Preconditioning Balloons

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use balloons (a polymer) to explore preconditioning a viscoelastic material behavior that is important to understand when designing biomedical devices. They improve their understanding of preconditioning by measuring the force...
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Unit Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Cuba and the United States: A New Chapter

For Students 9th - 10th
Current and relevant learning resource from Brown University in which students explore the changing relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, interpret political cartoons and monitor news media coverage of U.S.-Cuba relations over time....
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Professional Doc
Other

Sage Publishing: Play and the Learning Environment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Play is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence. This chapter discusses the definition of the physical environment and play, the defining characteristics of...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Get Up and Go!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
PBS Wisconsin Education and the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison worked together to create this series of videos that focuses on the well-being of young children.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Leaving the Island

For Students 9th - 10th
This six-stanza poem shares the sadness in leaving an island home after a vacation of fun and relaxation.
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Website
University of Chicago

Cara Virtual Tour: Welcome to Antarctica!

For Students 9th - 10th
The Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica takes you on a tour of New Zealand, McMurdo Station, and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station, all part of a virtual tour of Antarctica. Lots of pictures and a relaxed style...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Stage Fright (And How to Overcome It)

For Students 9th - 10th
This video focuses on stage fright and how to overcome it. It discusses the Fight or Flight response and how it works in your body. He also discusses ways to overcome stage fright through practice and exercises to trick your brain to...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Worried Sick: Temperature and Stress

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the physiological effects of stress, and investigate the techniques of Tibetan monks to regulate their body temperature. Attach a thermistor to your fingertip to see if relaxation techniques can produce changes in body temperature.

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