Curated OER
Rules, Advice, and Course Review
Learners write about advice and rules when on a boat. In this conversation and vocabulary lesson, students write about various themes studied during the English course and reflect on what they have learned.
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How Soft or Hard is Your Water?
Students test samples of water to determine how a chemical water softener affects water's ability to form suds. After collecting their data and analyzing their results, students answer follow-up questions about their lab.
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Keep in Touch: Communications and Satellites
Students investigate how satellites help people communicate with others far away and in remote areas. They discuss a scenario of someone travelling to an area with no mode of communication, observe a teacher demonstration, and create a...
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Waldseemuller's Map: World 1507
Seventh graders analyze various maps. For this Geography lesson, 7th graders create a large map as a whole class. Students write a letter to Mr. Waldseemuller.
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Cloud Painting
Students explore clouds and abstract thinking through painting. This instructional activity uses higher thinking skills and encourages self expression.
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Finding Yourself in a Landscape
Students view landscape paintings. They recall a landscape that has meaning to them and describe it to the class. They complete a worksheet.
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Conservation Collage
Young scholars identify many different ways the environment is polluted, and determine ways to prevent pollution. They create a collage of pictures describing how the earth becomes polluted.
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Create Your Own Investigation
Young scholars design and implement an experiment intended to measure and analyze the air quality of a particular location. They focus on looking for ozone and particulate pollutants.
Curated OER
Using Solar Energy
Middle schoolers experiment to determine the effect of solar energy on the temperature of water. In this renewable resources lesson, students measure the temperature of water in a flask that is exposed to sunlight. They relate their...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Catching Snowflakes
Are you in a place where snow falls in winter? If so, try catching snowflakes. Then take a close look. Can you find two snowflakes that look alike?
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Scijinks: Atmosphere
Activity describing how the Earth's atmosphere was formed, why it stays close to the Earth, and why the sky is blue.