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A Crime Against Plants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the phenomenon that is living in a small tree. They develop their own conclusion on what they believed is occuring. They answer discussion questions to end the lesson plan.
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Three-Hole Bottle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in an experiment with a 2-liter bottle. They develop their own hypothesis about what they believe will happen when certain items are tested on the bottle. They discuss results.
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The Great Volume Exchanger...or the Magic Matter Maker ®

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students pour water into a "magic" box and examine how it comes out with a much larger volume of water. They, working in small groups, design a volume exchanger and explain its design to the whole class.
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Palpating Pachyderms: How Do We Interpret Observations?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students interpret a poem before completing activities to distinguish observations and interpretations. They examine how personal background can influence how a person interpreters what they observe.
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Find the Washer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine a closed box with wires and try to guess where the washer is. They experiment by pulling out wires to determine the location of the washer. They complete discussion questions to end the lesson plan.
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Halloween: Arachnids

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in class discussion about the movie Arachnophobia. For this biology lesson, students find articles and photos of a species that interest them. They share it with their group.
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Hurricanes 2: Tracking Hurricanes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the role of technology in identifying and tracking hurricanes.
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Technological Advances in Health

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explain how technology influences human existence by examining the benefits and risks of different biotechnological advances.
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Cicada Invasion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students consider how some animals, periodical cicadas, survive well in a particular environment due to the species' life cycle.
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Thinking about Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers navigate through a web-based survey to help engage curiosity about energy concepts. They describe how prior perceptions influence examineing of energy concepts. They evaluate comprehension about concepts of energy.
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It Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners understand and reinforce how numbers are assigned to objects, as well as think about more, less, or equal values. In this lesson, students are asked to describe, compare, and classify plants. They should be able to use numbers...
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Introducing Models to Elementary School Students

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore the concept of creating models. In this model representation lesson, students are introduced to the idea of a model and discuss the differences between models and the actual object.
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Weather Myths

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders relate myths to weather phenomenon. They write and illustrated a weather myth and present it to the class.
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Mellowing With Age, A Closer Look

For Teachers K - 5th
Students realize that aging is a "natural, continuous process" and develop sensitivity to the needs, desires, and capabilities of the elderly by interviewing elderly community members and photographing age related things.
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Bounce (Projectile Motion And Collisions)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the motion of an object as it moves through a complex path that includes rolling, falling, and bouncing. They answer questions related to what forces are acting at any given time.
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Space Ship Pilot

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners visualize the relationship between acceleration and velocity as they maneuver a model spaceship in a 2-dimensional applet.
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Is it Really Winter in Australia? It is June!

For Teachers 8th - 12th
The purpose of this activity is to determine how the location of a place on the Earth (hemisphere) determines what season that place is experiencing relative to the Sun's rays. Day one the young scholars will be introduced to the terms...
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No Edge, No Center -- Exploring the Shape of Our Universe

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine various "spaces" (including ones that are one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional). For each space, they will examine what it means to have or not have an edge, or to be finite or infinite.
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The Big Bad Wolf

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders analyze the popular fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs" for inaccurate references to wolves. They write a story (or compose a song) that correctly depicts the characteristics, traits and predator-prey relationship of a wolf.
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We All Scream for Ice Cream

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make ice cream while experimenting with the freezing point of water. They experiment with different amounts of salt.
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Roots Need Oxygen

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate the growth of plants in soil with oxygen and soil without oxygen. They discuss what roots need to survive, and chart the growth of two plants to analyze the difference between plain soil and soil with two earthworms.
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Student Weather Journal

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students recognize different types of cloud patterns and associate these patterns with certain types of weather. They predict the weather for the next 6 to 24 hours. They then improve their observation skills as they check on the weather...
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Student Illustrations and Writing About the Sun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss what they know about the Sun. The teacher distributes work sheets and asks students to draw the Sun and label any parts of it that they know. Students write what they know about the Sun.
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Polar Food Web Comparison

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice the evaluation component of the scientific method while comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences of the food chains and webs of polar animal life. They study about classification and ecology...

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