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Uen: Food Preservation
Major food preservation methods and their relationship to the conditions that encourage or inhibit growth of microorganisms.
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Uen: Atom in a Bag
Students will use bags of beads with known quantities of electrons, neutrons and protons to identify the element that they represent.
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Uen: Catalytic Converters: Chemistry of Air Pollution
In this cooperative worksheet students will see how catalysts inside catalytic converters speed up the oxidation of fuel and lessen the air pollution from cars.
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Uen: Expansion and Contraction of Materials
Lesson demonstrates how materials expand and contract with heat.
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Uen: Mental Health Matters
At the conclusion of this lesson, students will understand the continuum of mental health and recognize the warning signs of mental health problems.
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Uen: Chemical Reactions and Equations
With this experiment, students will identify evidence of chemical reactions and demonstrate how chemical equations are used to describe them.
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Uen: Classroom Bonding
Students will be assigned an ion "name tag" and move around the classroom finding suitable other "atoms" to bond with.
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Uen: Conductivity and Bonding
Students will measure the conductivity of several compounds and solutions in order to predict the bond types (ionic or covalent) in the substances tested.
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Uen: Healthy Relationships: Teen Dating Violence
As teens develop relationships, it is pertinent that they grow an understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships. This instructional activity focuses on the basics of relationships and dating violence.
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Uen: Balancing Act
Students will use wooden atoms to model and balance a chemical reaction.
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Uen: Atomic Model Construction
Young scholars create models of atoms then compare the various aspects of the atoms including; relative size, charge, positions of subatomic particles, and identity of the atom based on proton, neutron, and electrons with the class.
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Uen: Elements in the Universe
Students will use a graph of the relative abundance of elements in the Universe to determine relationships between size of the atoms and their abundance.
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Uen: Comparing Travel Before and After the Transcontinental Railroad [Pdf]
Students will compare two primary accounts of overland travel in the 1860s,one by stagecoach, the other by railroad, to see how travel changed upon completion of the transcontinental railroad.
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Uen: Civics: Citizenship
Provides basic information on becoming a citizen. Learn about the naturalization process, citizen rights and responsibilities, and volunteer projects.
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Uen: Create a Book (Grade 3 6)
Young scholars will illustrate and write their own story.
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Uen: Arty Smarty: Exploring Various Mediums in Picture Books
Discuss different types of mediums used for illustrations then have each student create a sample paper using the mediums available.
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Uen: Third Grade Writing Lesson #2 / Science Prompt
Third graders will invent a gadget using one or more simple machines and write about it.
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Uen: Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
Celebrate our 16th president's birthday by learning more about his life and completing these classroom activities. Includes general information, lesson plans, speeches, images, and videos.
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Uen: Colonial Williamsburg
You will find web sites, documents and resources about Colonial Williamsburg, as well as information about the Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trip.
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Uen: Celebrate Constitution Day
September 17th has been designated as Constitution Day. Use these resources to help gain a deeper appreciation and understanding of our nation's founding document. You will find lesson plans, readings, timelines, and more.
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Uen: Freedom Rides
In-depth resources about the Freedom Rides and the brave civil rights pioneers.
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Uen: General Election Resources
UEN has gathered high-quality election resources for educators, students, and parents.
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Uen: Macroinvertebrate Graphing Activity
Students will learn about water quality indicators.