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Modeling an Oil Reserve

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment.  In this oil and natural gas instructional activity, students learn how geoscientists identify and explore reserves of petroleum.  Students make a model of an oil reserve, record how much it...
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Factoring

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders factor equations and find prime numbers. In this algebra lesson, 9th graders find the factors and prime factors of a number using multiples and relatively prime numbers.
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Lentic Ecosystem or Lotic Ecosystem

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the differences between lentic and lotic ecosystems. In this ecology lesson students study the water systems in Pennsylvania.
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Doing the Honours

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate the actions of British political parties. In this current events lesson, students research the listed Web sites that include information about political party fundraising and peerage. Students also report on honors...
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Deric's Blotto

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars solve the handshake problem and investigate triangular numbers. In this geometry instructional activity, students investigate Blotto games as they apply concepts of triangles and geometric theorems.
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Pollution Assessment: Is Wood Lake a Good Lake?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students become aware of pollution in Richfield Minnesota's Wood Lake, identify sources of pollution in Wood Lake, learn to use variables, equations, spreadsheets and modeling software, and generate solutions for the problem.
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Electoral Politics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students formulate their own opinions about the issues in an election campaign through a critical examination of political advertisements, candidate debates, and political cartoons.
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Deep Sea Coral Biodiversity

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars research life forms of both tropical coral reefs and deep-sea coral reefs to discover the biodiversity of the ecosystems. They compare and contrast the diversity and adaptations of the two eco-systems, and draw a picture...
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Cell Size Changes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the behavior of living cells treated with different types of stimuli. They watch an online movie, examine wet mount slides under a microscope, take an online quiz, and analyze data.
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Sampling Carbon Dioxide

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students perform an experiment to determine which source of gas (their breath, exhaust from a car, or the air in the classroom) has a greater concentration of carbon dioxide. Students compare the colors of BTB solutions after...
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Introduction to Radiation Shielding

For Students 9th - 11th
In this radiation shielding learning exercise, students use a graph of the dosage of radiation versus the thickness of aluminum shielding using data from the MIR spacecraft and ISO satellite to solve 3 problems. They determine how thick...
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Auto-Mania

For Students 6th - 8th
In this history of automobiles worksheet, students answer 20 questions about the automobile industry, the changes that have taken place over the course of the auto industry's history and the current statistics about automobiles.
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Uninsured in America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the issue of being uninsured in America. For this social issues lesson, students review data about uninsured Americans. Students create and conduct surveys related to the social issue of being uninsured.
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Watch Out for Landslides

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct an experiment.  In this landslides lesson, students learn about landslides and discuss how they could minimize the risk of landslides.  Students complete an experiment to see if changing the slope of the land...
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Das Kapital

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive philosophy activity, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive activity.
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Welfare to Work: The States Take Charge

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the Work Opportunity Act of 1996. In this welfare lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the history of welfare and the passage of welfare reform. Young scholars respond...
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What are Fractals?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers identify and analyze fractals and research information using the Internet to locate information about them. They look at fractals in relation to nature and other real world situations. Pupils create several...
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Hurricanes

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Upper elementary meteorologists take a glance at what a hurricane is and how it is formed. Because this does not get into the differences in air pressure that drive the associated winds, it may not be useful for older learners. The...
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Heredity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this science worksheet, middle schoolers find the answers to various types of heredity problems. They use the sheet to set goals for completing the unit.
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Visualizing: Hill Fire

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use visualization while reading Hill of Fire. In this language arts lesson, students read the story and draw a picture of what they see while listening to the story. Students use manipulatives to create the figures described.
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Optimization For Breakfast

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students identify he proportion of a cereal box. In this algebra lesson, students define the relationship between patterns, functions and relations. They model their understanding using the cereal box.
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Potential Energy

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this potential energy learning exercise, students determine the potential energy of objects, calculate the work due to conservative forces and the conservation of mechanical energy. This learning exercise has 7 problems to solve.
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MEANINGFUL METRICS with DRAMATIC DEMONSTRATIONS

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders study the metric system.  In this metric lesson students complete a lab activity and several metric worksheets. 
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Matter

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete a unit of activities to learn about states of matter and how to measure matter. In this matter lesson, students complete 8 lessons to learn about matter, its states, and how to measure matter.