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ESL Network: Tezen, A Haitian Folktale

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders brainstorm various types of friendships prior to reading "Tezen," a tale about a young girl's friendship with a fish. After writing story reviews, they work in small groups to create dramatic skits based on the text and...
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Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore Bernoulli's principle, how it is related to flight, and the effect of lift, thrust, and drag on flight. They design and develop an experiment that tests for distance traveled by their paper airplane, and record and...
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Stomata: Microscopic Openings that Let Plants Breathe

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a lab experiment to observe and measure the opening and closing of stomata. They focus on photoperiod, locate and identify stomata on a leaf and explain the role of stomata in the daily functioning of a plant.
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Inventions and How They Impact Our World

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students select an invention from a list, observe the invention for one whole day to determine how their selected invention impacts their daily life. They share their observations as a class and describe their experiences.
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Cardinal and Ordinal Directions

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners use a compass to locate cardinal and ordinal directions. In small groups, they describe and create a journey for their classmates using their compass. Groups create a scale map for their classmates to follow and relate this...
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Mad Science Lab: Original Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct a number of simple experiments, collect and categorize the results as either chemical or physical change. The lesson uses connections to folklore, science fiction and comic books to assist each student as they make...
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Tiling the Plaza (Geometry)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make patterns with a variety of pattern blocks. Pupils experiment with making tile designs using only one shape by rotating that shape around a point. They enter a contest for creating the best tile design for the new plaza...
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Ice -T's Rap School

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students research the history of rap and gain an understanding of the components of rap music. They experience the correlation between Shakespeare's poetry and rap music of today.
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How Many Stars in the Milky Way?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students perform an experiment in which they will use a statistical method called `sampling' to count to a billion (and beyond). Students practice sampling by estimating the number of characters on a page from the classified section of a...
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Insect Monitoring

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students practice the scientific method in the classroom, either in preparation or as a substitution for real-world field experience. They examine a simulated biodiversity research situation, using a "mini-plot" or sampling square...
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Sink or Float: Exploring the Laws of Buoyancy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the relationship between density and buoyancy. After watching a video explaining buoyancy, students discuss displacement and floating. Young scholars have a raft building competition. Afterward, they conduct...
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Why Muscle Biology?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students research and define a muscle biology research question and organize an experiment to address the question utilizing either NADH staining or acid buffering. They analyze data as well as draw conclusions about their research....
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Pieces of Mind: What's In A Dream?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore the five stages of sleep. They view video footage of sleep labs and discuss the findings. Students conduct experiments by keeping a sleep journal to track their sleep and dream activity. They find examples of ways...
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Open-Faced Tacos

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students practice safe handling procedures in a lab experience by handling ground beef properly in the preparation of a recipe. They prepare and assemble Open Faced Tacos. Afterward, they eat their prepared meal and complete several...
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Types of Love (Dat)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the different types of love. They identify the various types of love and the behaviors associated with each. Although there are many kinds of love that we need to receive daily, most people will experience only one or...
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Girls and Puberty

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners describe the internal and external changes females experience during puberty. They discuss the external changes of puberty. Students investigate about the changes that happen inside the female body at puberty. Learners review...
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Functions and Statistics: International Space Station: Up to Us

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how the International Space Station was built and how it provides first-hand experiences with the space program. They view the NASA engineers discussing the major components of the International Space Station, their...
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Measuring Calories

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate what a calorie is and how and why we measure them. They conduct an experiment to compare the calories of a peanut and a mini-marshmallow, and explain and discuss how calories are directly related to the amount of...
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The Effects of Temperature Variations on the Heartbeat Rate of Daphnia

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Young scholars use DigiScope technology to investigate Daphinia, popularly known as water fleas. They design, conduct, and report on an experiment to determine the effects of varying water temperatures on the heartbeat rate of Daphnia.
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Brief Encounters (Building Bridges)

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners experience what it is like to confront and deal with a culture highly different from their own. They gain skills in observing and describing behaviors and develop an understanding of how our cultural values influence the way we...
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Good News/Bad News/Who Cares?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars practice evaluating facts, bringing to bear their own experience, preferences, and international contexts. They recognize that there are many ways of interpreting a single piece of information and form the habit of...
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Introducing Culture

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze what it is that constitutes culture. They describe how the concept of culture relates to their own experience and imagine that they are extraterrestrials-peaceful, intelligent creatures from another planet who have...
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Tsunami! Examining Earth's Most Destructive Waves

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate just what a tsunami is, what causes it, how fast it travels, what it looks like, and its devastating effects upon landfall. They read the experience of a former Peace Corps Volunteer who went to Sri Lanka after it...
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The Copper Basin Problem

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students view a video about how human actions impact the environment. They design a set of experiments to address some of the problems and issues raised by the video.

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