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Looking For Newton

For Teachers 8th
The lesson has sufficient background information for the teacher to implement the lesson. Students are asked to summarize the three laws of motion. They also conduct classroom activities to role play the Laws of Newton.
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Wildwood Dancing: Concept/Vocabulary Analysis

For Students 9th - 12th
Considering including Juliet Marillier's young adult novel, Wildwood Dancing as part of your language arts curriculum? Check out an overview that examines some of the themes and issues presented by the novel. 
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Forces and Acceleration Unit

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars investigate that an unbalanced force, acting on an object, changes it speed or path of motion or both, and know that if the force always acts toward the same center as the object moves, the objects path may curve into an...
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Worksheet 30

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this math activity, students imagine a situation where a weight is attached to a string and it is swung in a circle. Then they use vectors and derivatives to describe the motion.
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Secrets of Lost Empires II -- Roman Bath

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students build an arch with no mortar following the design of the Romans. They use cookies to represent the blocks used and work to distribute the weight on the stones.
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Observing Mars in the Night Sky

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compare and contrast the orbits of Earth and Mars, locate the planet Mars, and diagram its retrograde motion.
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Group Initiatives

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
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The Discovery Of The Solar System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, the ideas behind it and the explanations which it displaced. A discussion of retrograde motion of planets helps students explain the logic underlying the ideas of both Ptolemy and...
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Adding the Moon: Using a Classroom Model to Explore the Movement of the Sun, Earth, and Moon

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students observe and discuss motions of the Earth and the Moon as they spin and orbit the Sun.
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Newton's First Law

For Students 9th - 12th
In this laws of motion worksheet, high schoolers review vocabulary words and concepts associated with Newton's first law of motion. This worksheet has 15 true or false questions.
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The Discovery of the Solar System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the ideas behind the heliocentric theory of Copernicus. They examine about retrograde motion of the planets as they move around the sun. They study astronomers who include Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Galileo.
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Red Shift, Blue Shift

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners demonstrate how stellar spectra measures a star's motion relative to Earth along the line of sight.
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Worksheet 21 Spring 1996

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this math instructional activity, students consider a path around the unit circle parameterized by σ on the interval [0, 1] with σ(t) = sin(5πt − π), cos(5πt − π). Then they find the vector.
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Parachute

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an instant activity as they enter the gym. They work with a parachute, moving it using different motions. They use their wrists, to move the parachute while moving in a circle, and play a game of Cat and Mouse...
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Parametric, Vector, Polar, and 3D Functions

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders investigate the capabilities of the TI-89.  In this calculus lesson, 12th graders explore the parametric equation for a circle, for arc length of curves, and for trajectories.  Students investigate the symbolic...
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El Joki Poki (The Hokey Pokey)

For Teachers 1st
First graders sing and dance the Hokey Pokey bilingually. They read and sing the Spanish words for prepositions and act them out as they sing and act out the motions to the song, "El Joki Poki" (The Hokey Pokey).
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Predicting the Configuration of the Satellites of Jupiter

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students plot the positions of the planet Jupiter while predicting what the configuration system looks like from Earth. In this configuration of satellites lesson plan, students photograph Jupiter and its moons to record the motions...
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Finding Verbs

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students review and discuss all the different types of verbs there are to choose from and then find and circle the verbs in nineteen sentences.
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Chem Word Search Puzzle

For Students 8th - 11th
In this chemistry terminology worksheet, learners review and discuss nineteen terms associated with chemistry and then locate and circle each term in a word search puzzle.
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Rotational Dynamics

For Students Higher Ed
In this motion worksheet, students calculate the initial angular acceleration, and the angular speed before and after impact for different objects. This worksheet has 3 problems to solve.
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A Peek into the Lives of Stars!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create a model of the birth of a star and demonstrate the stages of the star's lifecycle.  In this star lifecycle lesson, students mix flour and water in a jar to model the birth of a star, then role-play the entire...
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Measuring the Speed of a Solar Tsunami!

For Students 9th - 11th
In this solar tsunami worksheet, students are given three images of the progress of a Morton Wave on the sun. They solve six problems using the images to find the radius of the sun's disk, the scale of the image, and the time that passed...
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Levers in the Body: They Are Not What You Might Think!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate lever systems in the human body and compare arm anatomy to model.  In this human levers instructional activity students graph and analyze their results.
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Sound Box

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students make simple observations and identify relevant variables, such as frequency and diameter. They then discuss the relationship between variables. The task assesses students' abilities to make simple observations and make...

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