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Virtual Field Trip

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This hands-on resource has future trip planners analyze graphs of mileage, gasoline costs, and travel time on different routes. While this was originally designed for a problem-solving exercise using a Michigan map, it could be used as a...
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How Do You Like Your Eggs?

For Teachers 1st
First graders conduct a poll about how people like their eggs. In this graphing lesson plan, 1st graders collect data about how they like their eggs. Students use a picture of themselves to place under the type of egg they like. Students...
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Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly

For Teachers K - 1st
Youngsters listen to the story, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." After discussing the story, going over new vocabulary, and repeating the rhymes in the story, they study the parts of a fly. They finish by creating a fly on...
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Motion of a Bowling Ball

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students experiment with distance, speed, and motion by graphing the motion of a bowling ball. In this distance versus time graphing lesson, students observe the speed and distance of a rolling ball and graph their findings. They then...
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Earthquake Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify and interpret the cyclical nature of the Parkfield, California earthquakes. They then investigate and graph earthquake occurrences on the Mojave segment of the San Andreas fault and then on the Hayward fault in order to...
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Mapping A Stream

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in mapping an actual waterway. They include reach lengths, transects, compass reading, and scale determinations. They include windfalls, plant cover, types of streambed composition, and landmarks such as trees and...
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Weather in Your City

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe weather conditions of a particular city. Multiple intelligences are explored within this activity. They locate their particular city on a United States map. Each student writes about their discoveries in his/her journal...
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Mythbusters

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders watch an episode of Mythbusters and answer questions that arise in the video about the scientific process. In this Mythbusters lesson plan, 8th graders complete a scientific investigation based on the video.
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The Point Line - Teaching Patterns

For Teachers K
Students practice extending patterns. In this patterns lesson, students demonstrate extending patterns by performing a rhythmic patter.