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\nExploring Energy: Designing a Brighter Future\n

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\nCoal soot and gas fumes, smog and pollution, acid rain and nuclear radiation may become passe as scientists search for innovative, sustainable energy sources. Engage young environmentalists in the quest with a collection of resources...\n
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\nProject: Public Transportation\n

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\nHave your charges race their car creations across the screen in a JavaScript activity. Coders start with a small program that shows one wheel moving across the screen. Use this as a good place to start and challenge your young...\n
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\nBuilding Better Buses: Transportation Design Challenges\n

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\nScholars learn about a series of three challenges when they design a bus system for a small town. They determine the bus routes and then figure out the best type of fuel to use before considering the cost of going electric. Learners...\n
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\nUsing Poetry to Explore Change and Belonging\n

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\nChange, growth, and a sense of belonging are the focus of a unit that uses poetry to explore these themes and the distinguishing features of poetry as well. \n
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\n\"Statistics is the grammar of science\" -Karl Pearson. In the assessment task, learners read a claim made by a newspaper and analyze its conclusions. They need to think about the sample and the wording of the given statistics.\n
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\nUsing Land in Different Ways\n

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\nAfter reading about rural, urban, and suburban land use, readers respond to a series of comprehension questions using evidence from the provided passage.\n
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\nBuses and Biofuels: Sustainable Transportation\n

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\nOne-third of all carbon emissions comes from transportation in the United States. The third lesson in a 13-part series on Exploring Energy offers ideas on how to reduce emissions from cars, airplanes, large trucks, and more. \n
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\nTeach your environmental studies, life science, or engineering class how an internal combustion engine works using the first few slides of the accompanying presentation. Then, focus in on the resulting carbon emissions. Finally, take a...\n
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\nA Future Beyond Traffic Gridlock\n

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\nBill Ford, great-grandson of Henry Ford and executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, discusses his struggle to reconcile his two passions: automobiles and the environment. He explains how our current transportation systems are simply...\n
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\n\"L\" Stands for Elevated\n

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\nStudents play a trivia game to learn more about the Chicago public transportation system. In this transportation lesson plan, students also create an \"L\" car, and write advertising slogans for Chicago's elevated trains.\n
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\nHow Should Our Gardens Grow?\n

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\nStudents examine different types of land use by humans and evaluate the ways land is used in their local community. They also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students assume the role of community...\n
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\nAirplanes Everywhere: Land! Water! Sky! Oh, My!\n

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\nHow important is aviation? Using the background information, teachers provide the class with a brief history of aviation. The class discusses how airplanes are important to the area of transportation in the 17th installment of a...\n
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\nMatrix Arithmetic in Its Own Right\n

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\nMatrix multiplication can seem random to pupils. Here's a instructional activity that uses a real-life example situation to reinforce the purpose of matrix multiplication. Learners discover how to multiply matrices and relate the process...\n
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\nThe Nutrients Public Transportation System\n

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\nStudents investigate the human circulatory system by experimenting with hoses.  In this human body instructional activity, students create a system of hoses simulating the circulatory system which they utilize to pass objects...\n
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\nHere's an interesting lesson that combines elements of language arts, sociology, and a study of the many ways that people use transportation to get from one place to another. The eight-page plan includes worksheets and a word search that...\n
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\nCross Cultural Transportation and Resources Exchange\n

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\nYoung scholars examine various modes of transportation. They explore regional transportation options and discover options available in their area. Students survey types of transportation people use in their area. Using spreadsheet data,...\n
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\nTransportation\n

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\nStudents discover the rules of different forms of transportation. They see how to read the public transportation schedule and recognize all the possible ways of getting from one place to another.\n
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\nRenewable and Nonrenewable Resources\n

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\nIn this resources worksheet, students will read three statements about how people use renewable and nonrenewable resources. Then students will write down what effect that use has on the resource. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.\n
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\nLooking for the best inclined plane for the job? Groups calculate the theoretical mechanical advantage for four different inclined planes. They determine the actual mechanical advantage by measuring the amount of force needed for the...\n
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\nComparing School Bus Stats\n

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\nEngage in a instructional activity that is about the use of statistics to examine the number of school buses used in particular states. They perform the research and record the data on the appropriate type of graph. Then they solve...\n
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\nIn this past participle learning exercise, students select one of the words from the word bank to fill in the blanks in the sentences. There are 9 sentences to complete.\n
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\nStudents use  digital camera to document the needs for daily living. In this life skills and visual arts activity, students create class books that include photographs of everyday objects that they use in their home, school and...\n
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\nWho Is Sarah Mae Fleming?\n

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\nFifth graders learn about two influential women.  In this historical figures instructional activity, 5th graders work in groups to read articles about Rosa Parks and Sarah Fleming and share their findings with the class. ...\n
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