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I've Got That Sinking Feeling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design a simple boat and predict how much weight it can carry. They should also discover why objects float or sink and how this can be determined experimentally. A great lesson on buoyancy!
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River to the Sea

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the function of wathersheds and weather while they follow Lewis and Clark on their jouney west. They also create a map using acurate measurements and build a model watershed.
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How Hot Is Hot In Namib?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and demonstrate the temperatures of the Namibian Desert. They watch and discuss a video, conduct an experiment to demonstrate the desert temperatures, record their results in the form of a graph, and compare/contrast...
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The Moon's Craters

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the formation and size of impact craters. In small groups, they conduct an experiment that involves dropping marbles into flour and measuring the impact from various heights and discussing their hypothesis and...
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Effect Of Technology on the Environment

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create their own oil spill to explore the various ways in which technology can have a negative impact on the environment. They discuss the daily use of technology and it's ability to be a positive for some groups and a...
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Can Magnets Interact With Objects Through Different Materials

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders experiment with and explore magnets. They manipulate them to see how they react with other magnets and with other objects. They experiment to see how magnets work through different thicknesses of objects (paper,...
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Push or Pull

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover that one way to change how something is moving is to give it a push or a pull. They design their own boats and work with 'The Great Boat Push' worksheet to compare how their boats move when they are pushed or pulled and...
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Why Does a Puddle Shrink?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders describe the relationship between heat energy, evaporation and condensation of water on Earth. They compare evaporation rates when the back of the hand and an equal area of a paper towel are moistened with the wet swab.
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Solar Oven

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders design two different solar ovens to learn about heat transfer. They investigate the movement of heat between objects by conduction, convection, and radiation. They become aware of things they can't control, like the...
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Erosion: Natural or Unnatural

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how water has the power to erode, how developing the land (building roads, buildings and parking lots) increases the amount of water reaching our rivers, and how this greater quantity of water increases erosion. They...
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Measuring Calories

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate what a calorie is and how and why we measure them. They conduct an experiment to compare the calories of a peanut and a mini-marshmallow, and explain and discuss how calories are directly related to the amount of...
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Measuring The Diameter of a Star

For Students 9th - 12th
In this space science worksheet, learners find the correct measurements using the tools provided in this lab experiment. The second page is used to record data.
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Acids and Bases

For Students 7th - 12th
In this acids and bases worksheet, students conduct an experiment to determine if solutions are electrolytic or nonelectrolytic. After completing the experiment, students answer 1 short answer question.
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Oxidative Rancidity in Potato Chips

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this oxidative rancidity worksheet, students conduct an experiment on potato chips. Students complete 4 short answer questions upon completing the experiment.
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Stoichiometry

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this stoichiometry worksheet, students balance equations, give the names of the reactants and products, and calculate how many grams of product could be produced with a given amount of reactant. This worksheet has 2 word problems.
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Chemistry: Chemical Reaction

For Students 10th - 12th
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students name the reactants and products, balance the equation, calculate the molecular weight of the reactants and products, and classify each reaction type. Students fill in a table of solubility...
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Periodic Properties Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the periodic properties of elements in the periodic table. In this periodic properties lesson plan, students experiment with elements from the Alkaline Earth Metals, the Halogens, the Transition Metals, and for...
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Chemical Elements and Compounds Crossword

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this elements worksheet, learners complete a crossword puzzle by figuring out the vocabulary words associated with the 25 clues given.
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WS 4.7 Writing Chemical Reactions

For Students 10th - 12th
In this chemical reactions worksheet, students are given fourteen chemical reactions that they must write using chemical formulas for the reactants and products. They balance each equation by placing the proper coefficients in front of...
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WS 3.3 Nomenclature II

For Students 10th - 12th
In this nomenclature instructional activity, students are given twenty-eight compounds to write the formulas for and they are given twenty eight formulas to name. The compounds include covalent compounds, ionic compounds and acids.
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Mineral Mania

For Students 7th - 9th
In this mineral worksheet, students use an on line source to answer questions about minerals, about resources and their uses, about fireworks and about birthstones.
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The Chemistry of Art

For Students 8th - 11th
In this chemistry of art worksheet, students read about the chemical reactions that turn art made of different metals colors. They answer three questions about the chemical reactions related to metals and art.
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More Mixed Naming Fun!

For Students 9th - 12th
In this naming compounds worksheet, high schoolers write the chemical names of 10 ionic or covalent compounds. They also write the chemical formula for 10 ionic or covalent compounds.
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Passing The Heat Along

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders consider conduction. In this science lesson plan, 5th graders explore how heat passes through conductors and examine materials that contain heat.

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