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Curated OER

World's Most Dynamic Force

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the Earth's forces. They review an assessment task and its accompanying rubric. They classify ten items as long-term or short-term interactions of the Earth's components and rank the destructive impact of the forces. ...
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Curated OER

Forces And Energy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the atom and how it is formed. They conduct research using a variety of resources and then construct a model of the atom. Then students have class discussion. The lesson includes background information for the...
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Centers for Ocean Sciences

Ocean and Great Lakes Literacy: Principle 1

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Is your current lesson plan for salt and freshwater literacy leaving you high and dry? If so, dive into part one of a seven-part series that explores the physical features of Earth's salt and freshwater sources. Junior hydrologists...
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Mascil Project

Parachute Food Drop

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Drop a perfect project into your lesson plans. Groups use different building materials to create models of parachutes for food drops. After testing out their prototypes, they make improvements to their designs.
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Curated OER

Fossil Adventure

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars work as a class to write a general definition of fossil based on their discussion and examine pictures of the different types of fossils. Once discussion is complete, they write and illustrate a book about a T Rex that...
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Curated OER

Soil and Agriculture:Lesson 3 - Soil Erosion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students reseach the different types of soil erosion and ways to control it in this series of activities.
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Curated OER

Suspension Bridge Construction

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students build a model of a suspension bridge and test the amount of weight it support. They identify different types of bridges: suspension, arch, girder, truss, cantilever, cable-stayed and moveable.
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Magnetic Materials

For Teachers 8th - 10th
The design challenge: develop a method to separate steel from aluminum. The first lesson plan in an eight-part series introduces the class to the grand challenge of ciming up with a method to streamline a sorting process at a recycling...
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Teach Engineering

The Advantage of Machines

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Show your students how to make their work easier. The first lesson in a series of 10 introduces the class to work and the way simple machines can be make work easier. The simple machines scholars can find in everyday items are inclined...
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Curated OER

Candy Quakes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, using a candy bar, gum, and Twizzlers, demonstrate the effects of deformational forces on the earth's crust. They examine the processes of rock and fossil formation.
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Curated OER

Electric Motors

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the different types of electric motors including their history and classification.  In this motor lesson students complete several experiments with different motors.
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Curated OER

Suspension Bridge Construction

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study types, strength and construction of a variety of bridges. They build a model bridge and test the amount of weight it support.
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Curated OER

Wind Tunnel

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine how wind tunnels are used for research and development.  In this aerodynamics lesson students are given instructions on how to develop different types of wind tunnel.
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Curated OER

Clouds

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, middle schoolers look for the meaning of the water cycle and its relation to the formation of clouds. They read the information about the different types of clouds.
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Curated OER

Balloons

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore the different types of balloons.  In this materials instructional activity students can complete several experiments including building their own hot air balloons, making balloon animals and experimenting with static...
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Curated OER

Tides

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Pupils discover how the position of the Sun, Moon and Earth affect tides. In this science lesson, students view a presentation about the tides. Pupils discuss the different types of tides.
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Curated OER

Magnets

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore the different types of magnets and their common uses.  For this magnets lesson students create their own magnets. 
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Curated OER

Clouds and Rain

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars study how clouds form, what different types there are and what rain is.  In this atmospheric lesson students make a cloud and create evaporation.
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Curated OER

Candy Quakes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use candy to show the effects of deformation forces on the earth's crust.  In this rock and fossil formation lesson students construct models and simulations to describe and explain natural phenomena.
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Curated OER

Weathering and Erosion

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners examine the similarities and differences between weathering and erosion. They participate in a lab in which they test the effects of different materials when exposed to weathering and erosion. They record their observations.
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Curated OER

Erosion Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore erosion when there are multiple types of sediments. They view a soil separation demonstration jar before and after agitation to determine how and why the layers settled. In addition, they conduct experiments with...
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Curated OER

FORCES, MOTION, AND ENERGY

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders engage in a variety of activities in order to investigate the basic concepts of physics. They read and answer questions in a written text. This is only one type of activity that is part of many others.
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Curated OER

Puttin' It All Together

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explain the concepts of kinetic and potential energy and how it can change forms.  In this energy, motion, and frictional forces lesson plan students participate in a hands on activity that includes calculating energy.
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Curated OER

Forces on the Human Molecule

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct several simple lab activities to explore the five fundamental load types that can act on structures: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion. In this activity, students play the role of molecules in a beam...