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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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This is probably my students' favorite writing assignment. They obviously tell their friends about it, because every year my ne Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 6th
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Students compare heat conduction and calculate the heat produced by burning a nut and a candle and compare the heat produced by equal masses of different types of nuts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students locate Africa on a map and examine the origin of Kwanzaa. They describe the characteristics of Kwanzaa and create their own candle holder to be used in class. They practice using vocabulary through music and dance. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students research lifestyles from the 18th century. They examine artifacts from the Jean Hasbrouck House and associate them with the responsibilities and roles of the people who lived there. They make candles and consider the importance of light. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students make observations of common items and decide if they are quantitative or qualitative in nature. They observe an unlit and lit candle listing their observations while working in a small group. They decide which category the observations should fall under. They enter summaries of the differences between the two types of observations into handheld computers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students participate in a game involving their motor skills. With a partner, they are given a menorrah and bean bags in which they decide who carries the candles. After discussing the history of Hanukkah, they practice their locomotor skills. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students observe the colors found in the flame of a burning candle and examine the basic concepts of matter and energy. Students apply this information to the color's of starts and the temperature of the stars photosphere. Students create color drawings of the candle flame and scale models of stars. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students discuss what humans need to stay alive. They observe a candle that is lit and talk about candle safety and controls. They think about what a candle needs to keep burning and relate it to what people need to stay alive. They compare a fire triangle to human needs and discuss why firefighters need to wear protective clothing and breathing apparatus. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students watch as the teacher shows the finished product of a candle. They are given tissue paper, students tear it inot small pieces. Students are given baby food jars, q-tips, and paste and they are shown how the to put the tissue paper on the jars. They are given templates and each student color them and then glue on the jar. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students observe a combustion reaction and deduce the components necessary for the reaction to occur. They also identify and interpret the relationship between pressure, volume, and number of molecules for gasses. Finally, students use their knowledge of the gas laws and the principles of combustion to explain the observations they listed. Full Review »
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