Orange County Department of Education
The Glass Slipper Shatters
High school freshmen craft their own definition of honesty. They provide an example from their lives and reflect on the outcomes of their honest behavior. They also identify a time when they may have been dishonest in a relationship and...
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Inquiring Minds - Can a Human Voice Really Shatter Glass?
Students watch a video of opera singers breaking glass with their voices. In groups they hypothesize how this is possible and create a test to determine whether or not a human voice can actually shatter glass. They finish watching the...
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How do they make glass into different shapes?
Students investigate the process of glass blowing.In this simulation of glass blowing experiments students experiment how glass is formed and why not all glass is the same.
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Glass Blowing How Do They Make Glass Into Different Shapes?
Pupils experiment with butter as a supercooled liquid in order to better explain how glass is made into different shapes.
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Breaking Things on Purpose
Students predict the required stress to break a candy bar. They examine how a various substances break and infer a cause for the type of break.
Students relate the candy bar experiment to the importance of nanotech laboratory work and...