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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Solid Ground? Measuring Soil Bearing Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th
Foundations for many types of structures rest on soil. This project shows how you can investigate the bearing capacity of different types of soil.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Effect of Bridge Design on Weight Bearing Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th
This Science Buddies project asks that you identify different kinds of bridges, discover why they are built as they are, and then build three different bridges of your own out of balsa wood. See which one you think can bear the heaviest...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Bearing Witness

For Students 9th - 10th
Artifacts are essential to preserve the memories of the Holocaust. As survivors age, these pictures, testimonies, and documents are the only remaining items to tell the story of the Holocaust. Peruse the artifacts of the Holocaust with...
Unit Plan
University of California

World History for Us All: Getting Our Bearings: Maps of Time, Space, and History

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Understanding history requires students to be able to see the big picture. This teaching unit introduces students to tools they can use to investigate history. Topics covered include cartography, chronography, and maps of space, time and...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Bearings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson the students select appropriate tools (e.g. compasses and protractors) to measure angles and analyze bearings (N, E, S, and W).
Primary
Federal Reserve Bank

American Currency: Demand and Interest Bearing Notes: Financing the Union

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief overview of demand notes of the Union, commonly called "greenbacks." Gives a historical context for the notes and has many pictures of what they looked like. Includes an activity looking at Union soldier wages.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gymnosperms, Cone Bearing Vascular Plants

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will research printed encyclopedias, Internet resources (thinkfinity.org) and their science textbook to gather information to answer questions and draw an assigned portion of the Life Cycle of the Gymnosperms. This lesson plan...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Topo Triangulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will learn how to read a topographical map and how to triangulate with just a map. True triangulation requires both a map and compass, but to simplify the activity and make it possible indoors, the compass...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Shallow & Deep Foundations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the critical nature of foundations as they learn differences between shallow and deep foundations, including the concepts of bearing pressure and settlement. Using models representing a shallow foundation and a deep...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Classroom Triangles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will use bearing measurements to triangulate and determine objects' locations. Working in teams of two or three, students must put on their investigative hats as they take bearing measurements to specified...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Bearings 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a flipchart introducing student to compass bearings. It can be followed by flipchart bearings going further in depth of bearing orientation.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Where Is Your Teacher?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will learn how to take bearing with a compass. They will also learn how to describe a bearing and find an object in their classroom using a bearing.
Activity
Teachers TryScience

Teachers Try Science: Let It Roll

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here's an easy experiment, using common household items, that will show you all ball bearings work.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is Simple and Compound Interest?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how simple and compound interest is figured and why it is important to maintain a savings account. Students will calculate compound interest to identify benefits of saving in interest-bearing savings accounts. They...
Activity
Science Museum of Minnesota

Thinking Fountain: Friction

For Students 9th - 10th
This science experiment provides a nice introduction to friction and bearings.
Article
University of Hawai'i

Pretty Green Mineral Pretty Dry Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
Olivine-bearing rocks, similar to those found in Hawaii, have been found on Mars. Use this site to learn more about what has been found on Mars.
Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Sven Wingqvist

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Swedish engineer, inventor, industrialist, and one of the founders of one of the world's leading ball- and roller bearing makers.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Good Foundation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the effects of regional geology on bridge foundation, including the variety of soil conditions found beneath foundations. They learn about shallow and deep foundations, as well as the concepts of bearing pressure and...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Topo Map Mania!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Maps are designed to allow people to travel to a new location without a guide to show the way. They tell us information about areas to which we may or may not have ever been. There are many types of maps available for both recreational...
Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Carbon Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
How do we know how old a fossil is? We use carbon, as every living being has carbon. Carbon dating, also known as radiocarbon dating, is a method of estimating the age of carbon-bearing materials up to 60,000 years old. Scroll through to...
Handout
Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Gymnosperms First Plants With Seeds

For Students 3rd - 8th
This engaging article on gymnosperms offers good descriptions and background on these seed bearing plants. Learn about their characteristics and what makes these plants different from angiosperms.
Article
National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife: The Incredible Shrinking Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
This article, published by National Wildlife Magazine (February/March 2004 issue), offers an insightful look into the life of the polar bears of Canada's Hudson Bay. The article looks at why these bears are losing weight and bearing...
Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Find Your Bearing: Mapping

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this exercise, students use compasses to make a map of the school's campus.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Bearing of the Cross

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Bearing of the Cross", created by Derick Baegert, c. 1490 (Oil on panel).

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