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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Temperature Tactics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students practice the engineering design process as they explore devices used to measure changes in temperature. They work in teams to design, build, test, and evaluate their own temperature gauge made from everyday materials.
Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Stop and Go

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson addresses how traffic is managed by the use of the traffic light. Student "engineers" work in teams to design a new traffic light system using new technology to meet the needs of society today.
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Program Your Own Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teams of young scholars learn about the work of software engineers as they design a simple computer game using free software available in multiple languages.
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Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: Brief History of the Cotton Industry

For Students 9th - 10th
General history overview of the development of the Cotton Industry. Read here to learn about the history and growth of the Cotton Industry.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Students

For Students 3rd - 8th
This wide-ranging collection of resources includes games, informational slideshows and other online activities. Subjects include art, science, history, nature and culture.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Impacto, Influencia, Cambio

For Students 9th - 10th
This multimedia resource provides information about science, technology and invention in Latin America.
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the technology involved in the pharmaceutical industry. Students work through interactive learning material, answering review questions along the way.
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Pharmaceutical Business

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the pharmaceutical business. Learn about everything from medicine research and development to human resource concerns for a drug manufacturing company. Some interactive illustrations and suggested...
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Popular Science

Popular Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Popular Science is a monthly science magazine covering the latest in science, technology, electronics, computers, software, automotive, and home technology.
Professional Doc
Rick Beach

Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Chapter 3: Activities

For Teachers 5th - 9th
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 3 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 3. Focus of the...
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English for Everyone

Reading Comprehension Assessent: "Robots" [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for reading students in elementary grades. Six multiple choice questions and one extended response question are included on the nonfiction reading assessment.
Professional Doc
Rick Beach

Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Chapter 3: Planning Curriculum

For Teachers 5th - 9th
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 3 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 3. Focus of the...
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Questioneering Engineering Trivia Game

For Students 9th - 10th
In this challenge, students test their knowledge of engineering and technology trivia.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Navigating Our Global Future

For Students 9th - 10th
As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might yet realize the possibility...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Curiosity, Discovery and Gecko Feet

For Students 9th - 10th
Robert Full suggests the possibility of finding world-changing results with less formulaic approaches than the scientific method. In his TEDYouth Talk, Full describes the unlikely way he studied gecko's feet and how these beneficial...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Rapid Prototyping Google Glass

For Students 9th - 10th
Rapid prototyping is a method used to accelerate the innovation process. Tom Chi explains how this method was used to create one of Google's newest inventions, Google Glass. [8:08]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Nano?

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief introduction to nanoscience and nanotechnology. [3:26]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Let's Use Video to Reinvent Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises and...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: True Stories

For Students 3rd - 5th
Martha's True Stories consists of non-fiction texts with accompanying video, glossary, and quiz centered on four STEM topics: science - the environment; technology - communication, transportation & tools; engineering - inventions;...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Martha: True Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A collection of interactive story activities about topics including the environment, technology, inventions, and measuring. There are four stories about each of the topics. In addition to being able to page through the books, the books...
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson plan that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and...
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Operation Ice Cream by Ray Lankford

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An informational ebook about using technology as a means of communication. Special vocabulary words are highlighted and reviewed as well as a quiz checking understanding of the story.
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PBS

Pbs: Fact of Fiction

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from PBS you can challenge yourself with this quiz to see if you know what is true and what is false in genetic and reproductive technology. You'll be surprised by some of the things that we are currently able to do with...