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Liftoff Into Space
Learners explore the history of space exploration. In this history of space exploration lesson, students create a timeline of space exploration. Learners watch a space video and discuss important events. Students research space...
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Rules of the Roll
Young scholars roll a ball down a plank and measure the distance it travels. Students graph the distances the ball travels as they change the height of the incline (increase slope).
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The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students get a bugs-eye view of the flower world and find out how seeds are created, how they travel, and how they grow into plants.
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Sharing Beliefs and Ideas
High schoolers examine how cultural ideas and thought were exchanged as travelers and traders of the Silk Road met, interacted, and traded with different peoples from different regions and cultures along the Silk Road.
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Springbreak Trip
Twelfth graders plan and calculate the cost of taking a specific Spring Break trip, with a certain budget and given set costs. they determine miles traveled, gas costs, hotel expenses, etc.
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What a Wonder-Full World
Young scholars investigate the historical and cultural significance of various 'wonders of the world,' both of ancient and modern times, and develop travel posters and guides exploring them.
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Projectile Motion
Students observe projectile motion and calculate the speed of a baseball based on the time and distance traveled. They record the time, measure the distance, and draw the path of the ball's travel on a data table.
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The Ant and The Turntable-Frames of Reference
In this frames of reference worksheet, students solve 5 problems given the details of a journey an ant takes from the center of a CD ROM to its edge. Students draw a scaled sketch of the turntable showing the motion of the ant from...
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Varying Motion
For this secondary mathematics learning exercise, high schoolers collect data based on a person’s motion. From this data, high schoolers create graphs comparing displacement, velocity, and acceleration to time. The five-page learning...
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Calculating Rates
In this Algebra I/Algebra II learning exercise, students determine the rate or time using the appropriate units. The one page learning exercise contains a combination of six multiple choice and free response questions. Answers are...
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Grade 1: More Land or Water?
First graders listen as the teacher reads a story involving cross-continent traveling. Students collect a random sample by tossing an inflatable globe and recording whether they touch land or water each time they catch the globe in order...
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Which Way Did He Go?
In this visual thinking worksheet, 5th graders determine which of three routes that Max should take to get to a party by noon. Students answer 10 fill in the blank questions relating to different amounts of time and miles.
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Math in Science-Sound Reasoning
In this basic math skills worksheet, learners use division, decimals and multiplication to calculate the speed of sound in water and compare it to the speed in air. They calculate distances sound travels in water and the time it takes...
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Magnetic Forces and Kinetic Energy
In this magnetic forces and kinetic energy worksheet, students use the formula that relates the speed of an electron in a plasma cloud to its energy to find the speed of 6 different plasma cloud electrons. They answer 5 questions that...
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Project Whistlestop:Missouri Vacation Learning Unit
Fourth graders reserach the state of Missouri. For this Missouri History lesson, 4th graders plan a vacation to a region of Missouri. Students work in collaborative groups to determine all aspects of the trip. Students use math skills...
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Junkyard Wars: Wild Watercraft
Students develop a fast travelling hull for a boat. In this physical science lesson plan, the students' hulls will be tested in a channel (built by the teacher) with a fan as the driving force. The students will compete for who has the...
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Making Predictions from Data with a Graphing Calculator
In this making predictions from data worksheet, students solve 15 short answer problems. Students determine average miles per gallon given data on miles traveled and gas used. Students make predictions using the data and a line of best fit.
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Exploring Women's History
Students read and analyze Jessie Benton Fremont's travelogue of her trip out west in 1849 to identify the gender roles, social attitudes and class distinctions of the time. They then adapt the the travelogue into a film script.
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Data Corruption by High-Energy Particles
In this data corruption by high-energy particles, high schoolers solve 4 problems about the solar flare that corrupted the imagers measuring them. Students find the speed of the arriving particles and the percentage of light-speed the...
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The Greeley, Colorado Problem
In this Greeley, Colorado problem, students read a word problem. They use given directions and a coordinate plane to determine the number of ways to satisfy given travel conditions. This one-page worksheet contains 1 multi-step...
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Railroads
Young scholars make travel plans. In this transportation lesson, students determine whether trains, planes, or buses are best to get them a city 500 miles from their hometown.
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Domino Dash
In this speed worksheet, students use dominoes to measure the average speed of rows falling over. Students make a line graph to show the relationship between the length of the domino row and the time. Students answer 8 questions about...
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The Amazing Race
Students improve their directional awareness by locating sites and symbols on a map. They increase their heart rates while traveling to each site and performing the specified task/exercise at each site.
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Listening for Leschi: Voices from the Past
Learners explore the written and oral histories of mid 19th centruy western Washington. They imagine that they are a reporter who can travel back in time and interview Leschi to create a newspaper article that features him.