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Teachers Try Science: Stem Lessons and Resources for Educators

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students' interest in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Teachers Try Science: Gravity in Action

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here is a hands-on experiment that lets you discover how and why gravity works by making your own little parachutes.
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Teachers Try Science: Catch the Wave!

For Students 3rd - 8th
A resource that explores sound waves and how they work. Offers activities online and offline. Requires Adobe Flash.
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Teachers Try Science: Breathing Yeasties

For Students 4th - 8th
See how combining yeast, sugar, and water can demonstrate the carbon cycle and show how microorganisms work in the food chain.
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Teachers Try Science: Comet Cratering

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use marbles to discover how comets and asteroids make impact craters. This hands-on experiment is easy to do and gives you many variations to try. Included are links to additional information.
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Teachers Try Science: Lung Capacity

For Students 3rd - 8th
This hands-on experiment shows you how to make your spirometer, a device you can use to measure how much air your lungs can hold.
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Teachers Try Science: Wingin' It

For Students 4th - 7th
Learn about the Bernoulli effect by building an airplane wing, or airfoil, and making it fly.
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Teachers Try Science: Let It Roll

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here's an easy experiment, using common household items, that will show you all ball bearings work.
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Teachers Try Science: Musical Coat Hangers

For Students 3rd - 8th
From the National Science and Technology Centre in Australia comes this easy experiment that shows how sound waves travel and what materials are good conductors of sound.
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Teachers Try Science: Mysterious Melodies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
How do you hear melodies? What happens when you know a melody and then you scramble the notes? What does your brain hear then? This interactive resource addresses these questions.
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Teachers Try Science: Stadium Seat Science

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Teachers Try Science: Stick to It!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An activity from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry where participants make white glue from milk curds and then test it out, trying different variations of the ingredients. They learn about the denaturing of the protein casein...
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Teachers Try Science: Say Cheese

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow these steps to create the chemical reaction required to make cheese. Good explanations and suggestions of ways to modify the experiment. Hands-on science.
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Teachers Try Science: Eggs at Rest Stay at Rest

For Students 5th - 8th
Students demonstrate the properties of inertia with some common kitchen materials.
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Teachers Try Science: Where There's Light, There's Hot Food!!!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit helps young scholars learn to apply the concept of solar energy conservation. They are introduced to angles and their effect on the amount of light reflected, and they will also design, construct, manipulate, critique, evaluate...
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Try Science en Espanol

For Students 3rd - 8th
Fabulous resource for kids studying science. An excellent reinforcement for lessons covered in class or an insightful tool for students wishing to expand their knowledge of science. Allows students to visit science centers all over the...