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- 6th - 8th
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Students demonstrate the meaning of relative mass and set up a scale of relative masses. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students compare triangle sizes, square sizes, and lengths. They use manipulatives of three varied sized triangles, squares, and strips to measure, and compare relative size and lengths. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students brainstorm on what they believe they do on their summer vacation. They explore how family and relatives are important in their lives. They read along with their teacher a book about relatives. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate relative humidity and wind speed and wind direction. They construct a wind vane and a sling psychrometer, estimate wind speed, measure relative humidity and wind direction, and record the results. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students observe the relationship between temperature and relative humidity by interpreting graphs that represent everyday situations, making statements about time-related variation, and communicating their findings. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students understand the difference between relative and absolute location using the grid map as an example of an absolute location. They observe a class map showing longitude and latitude lines and learn that they provide exact locations. They then draw pictures of their homes, the classroom, or the way home. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students explore how to read fossil range charts. They develop an knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the fossil record. Students become familiar with the concepts index fossil and fossil range. Students use bar graphs to plot fossil ranges. They develop an knowledge of 'relative time' using fossil range charts. Full Review »
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- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students examine the concept of relativity in an introductory activity. They look at one of the factors that is rumored to have inspired Einstein's early ideas about relativity by observing the movement of coffee grounds in a stirred cup of coffee. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students identify the relative location of Virginia in relationship to bordering bodies of water (Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay) and the bordering states (Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and North Carolina). Then, they play a classroom version of "Where's Waldo" by choosing a state and giving ordinal clues to find location. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students use a 24-hour graph of air temperature, relative humidity, and dew point to describe at least one reason why the variables change (or don't change) during the day. They use given scenarios to identify and describe the problems with using relative humidity as the indicator of moisture in the air. Full Review »