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Word Choice: Its and It's
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and determine the best option from its or it's to complete the sentence.
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Radiation from Space
In this radiation worksheet, students review the different types of radiation waves that come from space and the different telescopes used to detect this radiation. This worksheet has 17 true or false questions.
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Measuring Electricity
Learners examine electricity, what its uses are and how it works. In this exploring electricity lesson students study voltage, resistance, current and OHM's law.
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Handwriting-Grade Two Vocabulary
In this handwriting/vocabulary worksheet, students practice printing vocabulary words on provided lines, 14 words total. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Alphabetize: Grade Two Vocabulary
In this alphabetizing worksheet, students alphabetize vocabulary words found in a word "pond" at the bottom of the page. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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In the Kitchen: Picture Comprehension
In this picture analysis worksheet, students study a picture of some people in a kitchen. Students complete an 8 question multiple choice on-line interactive activity about what is seen in the picture.
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Working Worms
Students study earthworms and their role in creating healthy soil for healthy food. In this earthworms and soil instructional activity, students complete an jug experiment to learn about the role of earthworms and healthy soil. Students...
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Prairie Voices...Making a Living
Students explore the many ways people support themselves and their families. In this economics lesson, students review newspapers and compare types of jobs. Students create daily schedules for an adult worker and role play job interview...
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Jell-O Optics
Students observe an activity with Jell-O to learn about optics. In this investigative lesson students fill out a handout on the activity that helps them to investigate the index of refraction and the speed of light.
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Teaching in the Shared Way of Ghandi and Montessori
In this differentiated lesson, students incorporate different subjects using the Ghandi and Montessori methods instead of the traditional method used in regular schools. In math they investigate shapes, colors and sizes. In writing they...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Bug Vacuums: Sucking Up Biodiversity
In this science fair project you can take on the role of a wildlife biologist by examining the biodiversity of insects in your own backyard. To do this, you will follow the directions to create a homemade bug vacuum.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Is It Possible to Create a Perfect Vacuum?
Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat explain the science behind vacuums.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Vacuum Filtration
Vacuum filtration is a technique for separating a solid product from a solvent or liquid reaction mixture. This comprehensive site addresses setting up and performing vacuum filtration.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Vacuum Tubes
The Nobel Foundation provides a brief story about the first vacuum tubes used in early electronic devices such as radios and phonographs and even the first computers.
Other
Ced Magic: 1906 Deforest Audion Vacuum Tube
This is a one page presentation of the historical development of the audion tube. An image of DeForest's invention is included.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Bell Jar Demonstration
A bell jar is evacuated to show the properties of a vacuum and air pressure. Pictures and a description of how to perform the demonstration are given.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: William Crookes
English scientist William Crookes was very innovative in his investigations with vacuum tubes and designed a variety of different types to be used in his experimental work. Crookes tubes are glass vacuum chambers that contain a positive...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Siegmund Loewe
Siegmund Loewe was a German engineer and businessman that developed vacuum tube forerunners of the modern integrated circuit. He pioneered both radio and television broadcasting, and the company he established with his brother, David...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Let's Bag It
Students observe and discuss a vacuum cleaner model of a baghouse to better understand how this pollutant recovery method functions in cleaning industrial air pollution.
Cosmos 4 kids
Cosmos4 Kids: Much Ado About Nothing
This site will explain the cold, empty space in our universe called vacuums. Site also includes a video explaining the concept.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Lee De Forest
American inventor Lee De Forest was a pioneer of radio and motion pictures. He received more than 300 patents over the course of his lifetime, the most important of which was for a three-electrode vacuum tube, or triode, that he called...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: John Ambrose Fleming
John Ambrose Fleming was an electronics pioneer who invented the oscillation valve, or vacuum tube, a device that would help make radios, televisions, telephones and even early electronic computers possible. A brilliant innovator,...
Science Struck
Science Struck: How Does Light Travel Through Space and Other Media?
A detailed discussion of the nature of light, how it can travel through a vacuum, and how the speed of light is affected when light travels through a medium.
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Stadium Seat Science
Try this hands-on experiment to figure out how a vacuum cleaner works. Find out about pressure by using drinking straws.
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