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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Double Pendulum

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What's better than a pendulum for studying motion and periods? A double pendulum! Young physical scientists use an interactive to explore pendulum motion—times two. The resource boasts a host of parameters to change and a running graph...
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Lesson Plan
NASA

The Invisible Sun: How Hot Is It?

For Students 9th - 12th
It's getting hot in here! The first in a series of six lessons has learners model nuclear fusion with a simple lab investigation. Groups collect data and analyze results, comparing their models to the actual process along the way.
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Activity
101 Questions

Meatballs

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your classroom will overflow with learning as they analyze the volume in a pot of meatballs. Young mathematicians predict the number of meatballs that will make a pot of sauce overflow. They incorporate both the volume of cylinders and...
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Handout
ProCon

Minimum Wage

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The first ever minimum wage in America was set at 25 cents per hour in 1938 and has been steadily, if slowly, increasing ever since. Using the provided website, pupils decide if the United States should further increase the federal...
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Lesson Plan
Science Matters

Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 4th Standards
The lights don't always go out when the switch is flipped. The 10th lesson in a series of 14 helps learners build a conceptual understanding of the flow of electricity through a parallel circuit. They then build their own parallel...
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Activity
Thoughtful Learning

Calming Down with Deep Pressure

For Students K - 8th
Stressed out and tensed up! When stressed our bodies tense and our muscles clench. Teach youngsters how to calm down with simple deep pressure exercises. Press and release! 
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Jamaican Song, Dance, and Play: Experiences with Jamaican Musical Traditions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young musicians experience song, dance, and play of the Jamaican culture. Scholars listen for and recreate beats, they play tunes, make up original dances, and play a game that challenges pupils to pass stones to a specific beat.
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Curated OER

Frosty the Snowman

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice throwing at a target. In this target throwing lesson, students participate in a wintertime game as they practice their overhead throwing skills.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Six Week Assessment Exam

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students demonstrate what they have learned about the concepts of catching a ball, dribbling a ball, and kicking a ball in physical education class.
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Curated OER

Same Worksheet

For Students Pre-K
In this objects that are the same activity, students look at the sports balls in each of three rows and then circle the sports ball that is the same as the first ball in each row.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Think Outside The Box

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this following directions instructional activity, learners analyze a picture of four balls of yarn, both inside and outside of a basket. Students color the yarn balls inside the basket red and the outside balls of yarn green.
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Curated OER

Wax On, Wane Off

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the cycles of the moon through an in class experiment.  For this lunar lesson, students utilize a tennis ball and their own head to simulate the moon and Earth and create moon phases by observing the tennis ball from...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"The World's Asleep": But Not Your Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners, in groups, form a circle in which to recite lines from Shakespeare. They throw foam balls to each other and when the ball is caught, a line is recited until all lines are memorized. They line up with quotations to resequence...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rotation Around the Sun

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in a hands-on demonstration of the rotation of the earth around the sun. They identify the equator and the North and South Poles on a Styrofoam ball and then spin the ball on a pencil while they also revolve...
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Worksheet
Rock ’N Learn

Phonics Worksheet- Catchin' Air

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this phonics activity, learners analyze a picture of a basketball player in front of a shelf with 12 balls, each with a word. Students color the balls orange that have the "air" sound.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Prepositions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this prepositions worksheet, students examine 10 pictures showing different positions of a ball in relation to a cardboard box. Students write a sentence for each that answers the question "Where is the ball?"
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Where?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this prepositions instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that show the position of a ball in relation to a cardboard box. For each question "Where is the ball?" students write a sentence using a preposition.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Positions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this prepositions worksheet, students view six pictures and determine the location of the ball in each one. Students match the location of the balls to the six prepositions on the right of the worksheet.
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Curated OER

Investigating Falling Particles

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students investigate the characteristics of a clay ball.  In this particles lesson plan students examine what happens to a ball of clay when it is dropped from different heights. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Summer Worksheet--Practice Counting

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this counting worksheet, students count the beach balls on the worksheet and choose the correct number of beach balls by circling the number.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Circuit Training

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in physical education activities in stations. They practice line jumps, squats, jumping jacks, running, and ball rolling.
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Curated OER

First Day of GT

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss feelings about being teased about being a gifted student. In this feelings lesson plan, students then toss balls to each other and give responses based on questions asked.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scootermania

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in a P.E. game involving cooperation and working nicely together. They transport a yarn ball from one hoop to another while pulling their partner on a scooter board.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Me Oh Maya

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students compare basketball to Mayan ring-ball. They write a newspaper article that may have been published during Mayan times.

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