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- 3rd
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Students, in groups, dissect a variety of brands of chocolate chip cookies and calculate the mean for each brand. They create their own bar graphs, pictographs, and line graphs to represent information. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students study the food chain by listening to a teacher read aloud and discussing consumers and decomposers. They make a balanced ecosystem to observe the changes within each. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students study a news article about the safety of aspartame, then hunt for items containing aspartame in their homes and daily routines. Then they review the data they have collected and draw conclusions about their collective consumption patterns. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students work together to design and build an artifical limb. They determine if water or air will make the limb more efficient. They discover how bioengineers use this information to improve ones quality of life. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate composite materials, tension as a force and how they act on structural components through the design and testing a strip of plastic chair webbing. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the advances made in technology with regard to prosthetics and replacement organs and limbs. They describe the anatomy and functions of different organs and create their own artifical organ. They defend and present their creation. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students study composite materials, tension as a force and how they act on structural components through the design and testing a strip of plastic chair webbing. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students comprehend the process of making pure maple syrup. They identify differences between pure syrup and artifical maple syrup. Students are asked what is in the displayed containers. They sample the syrups and try to figure out which is the pure syrup and wichi is the artifical syrup. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students describe the nests of three common birds. They build a specific type of bird nest, using the same materials a bird would use. Students build a nest platform to attract a nesting pair of osprey. They observe, record, and submit data on nesting osprey in Minnesota to The Raptor Center. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create a blue-green patina that serves as a protective coating on copper jewelry or other artwork. Using four different experimental methods, students apply patina to copper pieces and compare the results of the different procedures Full Review »

