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Physical vs. Chemical Change Lab

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students recognize both a physical and chemical change in different substances. They determine which particles actually changed into different substances, and explain if it represented a physical or a chemical change.
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A Simple Viscosity Test

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experiment with the viscosity of different liquids. They use a stopwatch to time the a steel ball as it drops through different liquids.
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What Does That DNA Molecule Really Look Like???

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students extract DNA from animal liver cells. They separate, collect and describe the appearance from the extracted DNA while role playing as an intern in a city's forensics.
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Airbrush & Business Card

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders design and produce a business card as modeled in class using Corel Draw. They demonstrate proper care of airbrush equipment and use proper airbrush techniques with complete accuracy.
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Introducing Particles

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students predict what is going to happen using prior knowledge being prepared to alter a view when faced with new evidence. They then accurately measure and record liquid volumes realizing that liquids and granular solids have...
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Color Me Square

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify and describe basic geometric solids. Working as a class, 2nd graders describe geometric solids using the proper vocabulary and counting faces, bases, corners, and edges. In pairs, students use a computer drawing...
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Graph the Density of Fruit

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders review the definition of mass and volume. They calculate and graph the density of various types of fruit while working in groups on a spreadsheet program. They look at how size of the fruit can be similar but the weight is...
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Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners describe limitations of fresh water resources on ships at sea. They realize the value of fresh water on the ocean and around the world. Students gain a knowledge of the process and economic cost of desalinization.
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Changes, Changes Activity Card

For Students Pre-K - K
For this language arts worksheet, students respond to the book Changes, Changes by completing an activity at home. Students locate specified parts of book illustrations and check them off when they are found.
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Metrics in the Home and in the Store

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners investigate metric measurement. In this geometry lesson plan, students discover metric measurements of everyday objects as they compare them to US measurements.
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Hydraulics and Pneumatics

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in an experiment using syringes.  In this physics lesson plan students demonstrate the movement and principles of pneumatics and hydraulics.
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LCROSS 'Sees" Water on the Moon!

For Students Higher Ed
In this moon instructional activity, students calculate information about the crater that was created by a massive impact. This instructional activity has 3 problems to solve.
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore what happens to water as it goes from solid to liquid and back. In this state of matter lesson, students observe, measure, and describe water as it changes state.
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Hand Built Tea Bowls

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students follow directions to create clay bowls. In this pottery instructional activity, students use clay and the pictured tools to follow the directions and create a fire baked tea bowl.
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Prisms, Cylinders, Cones

For Students 9th - 12th
In this prisms worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice problems about prisms.  Students determine the number of faces a prism has, characteristics of figures, etc.
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Galapagos Rift Expedition Come On Down!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research the development and implementation of a research vessel/vehicle used for deep ocean exploration. In this oceanography lesson, students calculate the density of objects by determining the mass and volume.
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Making Sense of a Round World on a Flat Surface

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the world in spatial terms
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Get Down With Density

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students define density and observe that things that are less dense than water will float. Students find the density of copper, iron and aluminum
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Efficiency Means Getting More for Less

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers measure water and make predictions about efficiency.
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What Does Waste Do to a River?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars develop a graphic way of visualizing the concept of a million by utilizing what had happened to the Nashua River due to the dumping of raw sewage in 1962.
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Visual Arts - Overview - April

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the architecture of Ancient Rome, The Pont du Gard, an aqueduct in Nimes, France; The Pantheon and Trajan's Column in Rome; and various triumphal arches throughout the land that was once the Roman Empire are the...
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Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 5: Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, in groups, use song lyrics and math to descrie two and three dimensional shapes.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 9: Attribute Attitude

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read poetry and build their vocabulary through use of the puppet Geo George.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 15: Geo Jingo Jivin'

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore how musical instruments h ave varying geometric shape, and how those geometric shapes correspond to three-dimenaional shapes that students have studied.

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