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Digital Codes

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
 In this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer a series of 12 open-ended questions about various types of digital codes. This worksheet is printable and the answers are revealed online.
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Basic Logic Gate Troubleshooting

For Students Higher Ed
In this physics worksheet, students analyze and solve gate circuit problems. They solve and write short answers to 22 questions on circuits.
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Falling into a Black Hole

For Students 9th - 12th
In this black hole learning exercise, students solve 3 problems given the equation used to determine the speed of a falling body using its mass, the constant of gravitation and the distance it will travel.
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Chapter 14 Review, Section 1: Acids and Bases

For Students 9th - 12th
An overview of acid and base compounds and their reactions is presented with this handout. Pupils name compounds and write chemical formulas. They write net ionic equations and explain how acidic solutions might conduct electricity. This...
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data.  In this magnet lesson plan students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets. 
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Arrays Hooray

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write and solve story problems which involve whole numbers, using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. They solve multiplication problems by using strategies other than counting all. They interpret and solve...
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The Global Menu: Changing the Rate of the Voice

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students examine the Windows-Eyes control panel by using dialog boxes, pull-down menus, left and right arrow keys, and shortcut keys. They also change the rate of the screen, keyboard, and mouse voices.
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Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners discuss the characteristics of the literary genre known as "Southern Gothic". They write an analysis of the short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor.
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Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this physics worksheet, students complete 5 sets of unit conversion problems. They express exponential expressions to expanded form and vice versa.
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Proofreading Practice

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this proofreading worksheet, students read a short paragraph, find 5 misspelled words and spell each correctly in boxes beneath the paragraph. Worksheet is part of the Glencoe Online site.
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Transistor Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students locate transistor devices in school. They explain the importance of transistors.
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Digital Images: From Satellites To The Internet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine digital images and how satellites orbiting Earth send information and pictures to Earth over the Internet. They use a digital camera to put pictures on a computer and decode a satellite image from space.
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Seeing Interference Fringes with a Telescope

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct an interferometer using a simple telescope. In this physics lesson, students explain how light waves create the fringe patterns. They observe patterns made by different objects in the sky and compare them.
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Introduction To the Classification of Organisms

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars discuss how scientists classify organisms. In pairs, they analyze and label "specimens" of breakfast cereals in order to classify them into the correct group. They create a dichotomous key for several species of animals.
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Electricity Generation

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study the history of electricity and the different ways we generate electricity.  In this electricity instructional activity students complete several experiments on generating power.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Binary Number System

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the binary number system and how to count in binary. Includes a set of practice questions.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Number Bases

For Students 9th - 10th
While our number system is based on the number 10, there are many other possible ways to organize a number system, which are explored here.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Mste: The Binary Calculator Applet

For Students 9th - 10th
The binary number system is used to represent data in digital form. This site provides a binary calculator that will convert between binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal, perform simple addition and subtraction, and do compliment and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Binary Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the binary number systems in computer science.
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University of Canterbury

Cs Unplugged: How Binary Digits Work

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learn why we have different number systems and expolre binary digits.
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Math Aids

Math Aids: Number Systems Worksheets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Great resource to practice and strengthen math skills pertaining to number systems. Math worksheets are printable, may be customized, and include answer keys.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Binary Digits

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the two binary digits, 0 and 1, and how they are combined to make numbers that correspond to our standard number system. Looks also at the relationship between binary and hexadecimal digits.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs of the I Ching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity was developed to be used in conjunction with the NUMB3RS episode "Undercurrent," in which a victim is found with a Chinese hexagram tattoo. Students will learn about trigrams and hexagrams, Chinese characters made from...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Binary Code

For Students 6th - 8th
The video lesson introduces students to the binary code. The concept is defined and examples are provided.