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Building a Roller Coaster

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the law of conservation of energy. They identify the conversion between potential and kinetic energy. They investigate and describe the application of Newton's Laws of Motion.
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Natural Collaboration: Building With the Five Elements of Art

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students assemble found natural objects into an artistic arrangement. They photograph their arrangement and Photoshop to enhance their artwork.
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Building Shapes From Numbers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students experience how to illustrate some of the many connections between number and geometry. Through this 2-3 day focus on square numbers and triangular numbers, students make connections among mathematical topics.
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Build A Skittles Graph

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore graphing. In this graphing lesson, students sort Skittles candies and use the color groups to create a bar graph. Rubrics and extension activities are provided.
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Building Canons on Pachelbel's Canon in D

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students demonstrate the structure of a canon by composing melodies and variations over Pachelbel's Theme from the Canon in D. Requires a networked keyboard lab and computers.
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Interview

For Students 2nd - 4th
English learners practice basic conversation skills with a instructional activity that exercises progressive/continuous verb forms. They conjugate given words to form correct sentences. Their partner does the same. They ask each other...
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Breaking News English: Dubai Tower Tallest Building in the World

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English instructional activity, students read "Dubai Tower Tallest Building in the World," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about...
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Construct with Solids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover which properties of solids lend themselves to building a tower through hands on trial and error and observation of others as they are building. They write down the steps it took them to build the tower and label an...
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Raising Cane: Building a Cane Flute From Scratch

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create their own cane flute. They use a model flute to gain the correct measurements and use the scientific method to construct the flute to have sound quality and pitch accuracy.
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Design and Construct A Road Sign Support

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use simple materials to design, build, and test a model of a free-standing structure used to support overhead road signs. Students view a video on the engineering design process and conduct research by observing actual overhead...
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Starting to Build: Framing and Roofing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how a building's foundation is its frame and support system. They compare the frame of a house to the skeleton of the body. They draw roofs and select flooring.
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LEGO Construction Basics-The RCX

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners build a stable car after examining the RCX. They determine how to incorporate the RCX into their design using Legos to build a car.
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Building Paper Bridges

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners construct a bridge that can hold 100 pennies. In this math lesson, students evaluate the strength of their bridges. They predict how much weight a bridge can hold based on its design.
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Building Aqueducts

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students simulate building a Roman aqueduct using an interactive website. In this social studies instructional activity, students design their own class aqueduct. They construct one inside the science classroom.
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Build Your Own Sling Psychrometer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a sling psychrometer and they measure the relative amount of humidity in the air. They create their own experiment on how to construct a sling psychrometer and how they are going to measure the relative humidity in the...
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Buildings and Monuments in London

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read two books and hang up pictures of buildings and monuments. They create realistic flags of the United Kingdom following specific guidelines.
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TE Activity: Build Your Own Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students inquire into how the center of mass is the key factor in designing cars. They construct an oddly shaped object and determine its center of mass. They find that engineers are able to predict how objects will behave while they are...
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Suspension Bridge Construction

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students build a model of a suspension bridge and test the amount of weight it support. They identify different types of bridges: suspension, arch, girder, truss, cantilever, cable-stayed and moveable.
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Building on the Power of Your Ideas

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine a sculpture walkway by artist Jackie Ferrara and discuss the relationship of materials to function. They analyze the sculpture and answer discussion questions, and design and construct a model of a walkway for the school.
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Building Buildings

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work together with a partnet to design a building. Using materials, they create the inside and outside of the structure along with works of art. They present their creation to the class and receive constructive criticism in return.
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Memory and Legacy: Building Monuments and Memorials

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the reasons why groups build monuments and memorials. Using the Holocaust as an example, they reflect on issues that are addressed in monuments related to it. They create a monument of their own and write an essay...
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Building a Better Mousetrap

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders are introduced to the "Design Process" for technological development by constructing a prototype of a humane mousetrap. Students must record the steps their design groups go through while designing their prototypes and...
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Building Your Bridge Building Basics

For Students 6th - 8th
In this technology learning exercise, students examine the basic principles of bridge building design in order to answer the nine questions with the help of the web links on page 2.
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Building a House Using Circles

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners study circles and problem solving. In this critical thinking lesson, students build a house using all of the circles given to them gluing them onto paper.

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