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- 8th - 11th
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Students work as a team to gather organisms from a stream to evaluate if the water quality is excellent, good, or fair to poor. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students use imagery to visualize what they are reading. After a lecture/demo, students listen to a Robert Frost poem, creating a list of words and images as the poem is read aloud. They use the imagery to write their own poem. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students label the parts of a compound microscope. After studying cell structure and as a way to reinforce and simulate the concept of magnification, students create Microsoft PowerPoint slides containing one plant and one animal cell. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
Students examine the characteristics and behaviors of visible light. They explore how these characteristics affect how one sees color. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students examine and label the parts of a microscope. They discover magnification as well. They draw and label a plant and animal cell and create a PowerPoint presentation. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students examine the concepts of stress and strain and the importance of them in our lives. They discover the factors that affect stress and how engineers describe the stress on different materials. They analyze how engineers design structures with this concept in mind. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students use a microscope in a series of activities that are designed to help them explore the "invisible world" and make meaningful microscopic discoveries and learn the importance of the microscope as a tool in science and research. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students pretend they were Anton looking through the microscope for the first time. They describe the way he felt when he observed tiny moving objects in the sample of pond water. They look at their own samples of pond water, make observations and drawings, and describe what they see, and how they felt. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students are introduced to how the differences in solubility of materials are used in the manufacture of fibers and films. They are also introduced to the various processes used to make films and fibers. Pupils prepare fibers using wet spinning and melt spinning techniques. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students rewrite and discuss Newton's four rules of reasoning in their own words. They distinguish the differences between observation and interpretation. Students perceive that perspective (in time and space) affects observations and interpretations of the significant scientists. Full Review »

