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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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- 7th - 9th
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Students use fossil range charts to explain relative dating. They graph for ammonites, marine organisms that went extinct at the same time as dinosaurs. 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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- 9th
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Students examine the concept of relative dating. They observe a teacher demonstration of geologic layers with a sandwich representing the various layers, analyze a cross section of bedrock, and create a drawing of a cross section of bedrock that includes an intrusion, extrusion, inclusion, and fossils. 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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- 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 »

