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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The core of this lesson plan is simple circuits and the differences between parallel and series circuit design. Students perform experiments to test the differences between the two circuit designs using low voltage light bulbs.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: An in Depth Explanation of the Venturi Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a detailed explanation of how the Venturi Effect works in fluid mechanics and how it can be proven using Bernoulli's equation. Also discusses applications of the Venturi Effect in the real world.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Undershot Water Wheel

For Students 9th - 10th
View a simulation of water flowing under a wheel that causes the wheel to rotate. Energy from the water is transferred to the wheel.
Lesson Plan
US Geological Survey

Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation: Ecosystems in Delicate Balance

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learning activities to investigate how organisms interact in a functioning ecosystem. Students will explore the role organisms play in food chains and preserving biodiversity in ecosystems. Lake Pontchartrain Basin ecosystem is featured...
Lesson Plan
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Earthquake Machine 1 Defining an Earthquake

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students work collaboratively in small groups to investigate the earthquake cycle using a mechanical model.
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Science of Ecology Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Review ecology, the study of how living organisms interact with each other and their surrounding environment.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Food Chains, Food Webs and Food Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
The following is a tutorial of food chains, food webs and food pyramids.
Activity
Colorado State University

Colorado State Univ.: Heat Transfer Resistance Modeling

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Colorado State University discusses the tranfer of heat by conduction and convection. Discussion centers around the application of these two heat transfer mechanisms to engines. The variables that effect the resistance...
Handout
Other

Web Dictionary of Cybernetics:thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
A definition of thermodynamics and its laws from the Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems. Part of an online dictionary of scientific terms. Includes hypertext links to other definitions are provided.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Passing the Heat Along

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan explores the way heat passes--transfers--through various conductors.
Interactive
Other

Ask Numbers: Measurement Conversion Calculators and Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What kind of unit conversion would you like to do? This site will allow you to do a multitude of conversions. Just click on the specific measurement you are needing to convert. It also provides a history of measurements and a chart of...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive unit on thermodynamics, you'll learn why heat flows the way it does and how that flow of thermal energy can be put to good use in your daily life.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biodomes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
Handout
FT Exploring

Ft Exploring: The Second Law of Thermodynamics Equilibrium & Heat Engines

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this illustrated guide to understand equilibrium and heat engines as they relate to the second law of thermodynamics.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Energy in Ecosystems Habitat

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses the habitats in ecosystems.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: A Bird's Eye View of the Desert Food Chain

For Students 4th - 6th
Describes how a food chain works in a desert and how the Mojave desert food chain works in particular.
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Facts About Autotrophs and Heterotrophs

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what autotrophs and heterotrophs are, the several types of each, their roles in an ecosystem's food chains, and the differences between them.
Handout
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Insulation Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
Several well-written pages using easy-to-understand language. Explains about every detail concerning insulation and its installation or replacement. Discusses R values, heat loss, insulation types, etc.
Article
Other

The Sustainable Scale Project: Ecological Footprint

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ecological Footprint is rooted in the fact that all renewable resources come from the earth. It accounts for the flows of energy and matter to and from any defined economy and converts these into the corresponding land/water area...
Website
Other

Online Conversion

For Students 9th - 10th
Conversion calculators galore! Convert just about anything from one measureable unit into another measureable unit here with over two dozen calculators. Each of the links is specific to a measureable quantity. Some examples include...
Graphic
Other

Wind Map

For Students 6th - 8th
An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us-energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.
Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Hydropower

For Students 1st - 6th
What is hydropower? Discover how electricity is generated from hydropower, three methods of generating electricity, and the advantages and disadvantages.

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