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Terrific Tastebuds
Young scholars investigate the four taste regions of the tongue. In this biology lesson, students view a diagram of a tongue and identify the four regions. Young scholars perform a taste test with lemons, sugar, and crackers.
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Probability Review
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts related to probability. They review the key properties of statistics involved in the measurement of probability that includes mean, median, and mode. The lesson includes...
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Chemistry and the Food System
In this chemistry instructional activity, students review how chemistry has helped grow and preserve different foods. This instructional activity has 11 fill in the blank, 3 multiple choice, and 6 short answer questions.
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Pump Up the Volume
Fourth graders calculate volume. In this volume lesson, 4th graders calculate, estimate, and compare units of volume in English and metric systems.
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Minerals And Their Uses
For this minerals worksheet, students will review the four physical characteristics used to identify a mineral: streak, color, size, and hardness. Students will also understand the Mohs Hardness Scale. This worksheet has thirteen short...
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Mixtures
In this mixtures learning exercise, students fill in 7 blanks, determine if 4 statements are true or false, match 7 terms with the appropriate definitions, and solve 2 problems. These include topics such as homogeneous and heterogeneous...
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Ocean Botttom Profile
Pupils interpret a graph of ocean depths and topographic features. This task assesses students' abilities to interpret figures, organize and represent data, apply knowledge of scale to a profile, and apply theoretical knowledge.
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How do We Treat Our Environment?
Seventh graders explore the concept of collecting data. In this data collection instructional activity, 7th graders survey others about their environmental habits. Students graph their data.
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Exploring Measuring
In this measuring worksheet, pupils explore, examine and discuss the best strategy for measuring objects. Students calculate the answers to five measuring word problems.
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Wright Flight
Young scholars explain and explain the interactive relationships between forces of lift and gravity, thrust and drag, as they apply to airplanes in motion. They know that Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane based on these...
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Detecting Magnetic Materials in "Martian" Soil
Students simulate some of the Pathfinder experiments by devising methods of collecting and measuring magnetic substances in pseudo-Martian soil. The efficiency of each of the methods used to collect materials is evaluated in this lesson.
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Underground Pollution
Fourth graders construct their own aquifer. They discover how water travels underwater and identifies sources of underground pollution. They record their observations and discuss the results.
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Porosity
Students investigate the concept of an aquifer and use a 2 liter bottle and other materials to conduct a simple lab experiment or demonstration. They calculate the volume of water that can be stored in the aquifer. The lab is used to...
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Discovering Albedo
Students read a thermometer accurately, collect and record data, and generate a graph based on data. They learn what independent and dependent variables are. They analyze data and make conclusions concerning how soil coverings affect...
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Physical Habitat of a Stream
Students measure in metric units and use a stopwatch, calculator. They collect data with minimal instructions after the initial pre-activity briefing, then record data in the data sheets provided.
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Math Nutrition
Fifth graders use nutritional knowledge to plan balanced meals and use grocery store flyers to calculate costs of the meals. They create word problems using these flyers.
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Using Statistics to Uncover More Evidence
Fifth graders participate in an online Web lesson plan on ways of interpreting data. They conduct a survey and interpret the results in a journal entry.
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Compound Events & Sample Spaces
Seventh graders begin learning about compound events by considering independent events. They will consider everyday objects with known probabilities. Students will represent sample spaces using lists, tables, and tree diagrams in order...
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Bowling Green St Univ: Introduction to Probability
This site from Bowling Green State University provides an introduction to probability. It discusses topics and activities such as interpreting odds, listing all possible outcomes (the sample space), basic probability rules, equally...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probabilities of Compound Events
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A detailed explanation of how to use tree diagrams and tables to find the probability of compound events. Also looks at dependent events. Includes example problems...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Algebra Ii: Probabilities of Compound Events
A module for students to build on prior understanding of probability to include compound events; examine independent and dependent events, and describe events as subsets of a sample space,; determine whether events are independent or...