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Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, Moanin,' Payin' Your Dues

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the musical styles of call and response and the blues while delving into the difficult lives of many jazz musicians. Travelling in the South was challenging for black musicians during this time and the difficulties are...
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What Do You Know!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment using a compass for navigation and consider how various instruments affect how we travel.
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Types of Transportation

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars identify and describe various modes of transportation. In this transportation lesson, students discuss the types of transportation shown in the Landscape Picture and discuss the purpose of that vehicle. Young scholars...
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Where Does the Blood Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate where the blood in our hearts travels by observing a diagram in class.  In this cardiovascular lesson, students examine their own heart by checking their pulse in class.  Students investigate a human body...
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Mission to Mars: The Journey Begins

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students take a trip through space. In this space science lesson, students travel on a simulated mission to a space station. Students write a script and perform a play based on the pretend trip.
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Particulate Matter: The Lorax

For Teachers K
Students collect air samples to test it for air pollution. They are read the story The Lorax and discuss the effects of air pollution. They share their observations with the class.
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Up, Up, and Away

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research hot-ballooning using Internet resources including an around-the-world balloon flight. They determine fact from opinion, examine point of view, and determine main idea, and details. They write a journal entry...
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Currency Conversion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use the World Wide Web to research and convert US dollars to foreign currency and create a budget for a trip.
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Estimating Distance and Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze a Cyberchase video to help them understand how to estimate the time it takes to travel distances. In this time instructional activity, students use ratiosand repeated addition to calculate how much air the...
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Major Transport Routes 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify different transport routes used in travel and tourism. They research alternate forms of traveling instead of flying. They plan trips to a destination of their choice using alternate transportation methods.
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The Path of Pollution

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students conduct a brainstorming exercise that asks them to list all the ideas about air pollution that can be recalled. The ideas are recorded on a chart that the teacher has prepared. The lesson contains sufficient background...
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Balloon Fiesta

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in a math activity that reinforces basic fact strategies including counting on from a greater number. They interact with pictures of hot-air balloons and discuss word and sentence equations that deal with how many...
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Launching Rockets

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss experiences of watching a rocket launch either on television or in person before making paper rockets. They make and color rockets which they attempt to launch using a strong breath blown through a straw at the...
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Bottle Rocket Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers design a rocket that stays on air for the longest period of time. In this physics instructional activity, students research the function of different rocket components. They test their design and make necessary modifications.
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Balloon Toss

For Teachers K
Students practice the skills of throwing or tossing a balloon straight up into the air and then catching the balloon.
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Talking Tubes

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students study the theory that sound travels through a variety of instruments. They explore all the channels of the ear and its various purposes. Students test objects to see which ones were vibrating to make sound heard.
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Flying Tube

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate how a spinning paper tube generates lift as it travels forward.
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Average Vehicle Occupancy In Your Community

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students determine the average vehicle occupancy in their community.  In this transportation lesson plan students develop and analyze a survey to determine attitudes towards air pollution and transportation. 
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Robots

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the two kinds of fluids: liquids and gases. They explain that liquids (water), unlike gases (air), cannot be compressed. This property makes them ideal for hydraulic work applications.
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Egg Fun

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete experiments to find out if all eggs are same size, how they roll, and where is the air inside of the egg.
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Extraordinary Explorers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars, using the Internet, B41460research facts about explorers and travelers. They also state what places they have explored and share with the class.
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Satellites

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the history of space travel and satellites. Through a teacher demonstration, 8th graders observe how a satellite revolves another object. They identify natural and artificial satellites, explore how satellites...
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Fallout!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers plot the locations of fallout from two disasters that polluted much of the world's air. They plot the ash fallout from the 1980 Mt. St. Helen's eruption to see what the wind patterns in the United States look like overall....
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Ears and Hearing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore vibrations and sound waves. In this instructional activity about hearing, students use experiments to determine how sound waves travel. Students use a saucepan, rice, and a plastic cover for one experiment and a tube,...

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