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Goodwill
Gcf Global: Food and Cooking Grocery List
Use this interactive activity to navigate the virtual store, reading labels and selecting items from the appropriate grocery aisles.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Make a Phonograph From Everyday Items
In this physics science fair project, the student will use common materials to play back sound from a vinyl record album. The student will investigate what kinds of materials produce the best sound. The Science Buddies project ideas are...
Other
Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match
This lesson will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 1: La Rutina Diaria
In this first unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about the history of Spain and how to talk about their daily routine. Vocabulary includes reflexive verbs, bath items, schedules, the simple future tense, and clothing....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Make Some Waves
In this activity, students use their own creativity (and their bodies) to make longitudinal and transverse waves. Through the use of common items, they will investigate the different between longitudinal and transverse waves.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Longer and Shorter
Students will use their shoe as a measuring item to learn about length. Students will compare classroom items by holding their shoe against the item and deciding if it is longer or shorter than their shoe. Students will record their...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Animals That Measure Up!
Students will learn how to order items by length. They will use plastic toy animals for hands-on learning and then students will locate pictures of animals of various lengths and sizes in their natural habitat on the Internet. They will...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Where There Is Charge, There Can Be Sparks!
In this short science project you will learn how to build a capacitor using common household items. By testing different charge cycles, you will work to discover how much charge is stored in a Leyden jar capacitor.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenge: Build a Blooming Flower
Can you create a blooming flower that would attract pollinators? This Curiosity Machine project challenges students to make this flower using common household items. Site includes a place for students to document their process as well as...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Wind Up Mars Rover
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a Mars rover that can travel using elastic energy. Site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Space Tool
Using common household items, make a tool that an astronaut could use to pick up an object in space. This site also includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a 3 D Object Out of Tetrahedra
Can you build a 3-D object out of tetrahedra that is as big as you are? With this challenge, students will be using common household items to build their tetrahedra structure. Site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Balance a Dinosaur
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a dinosaur at least 6" tall that can balance on two legs using counterbalances. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sneaking Up on Sneakers
This activity explores why different types of sneakers are used in a variety of common sports. It connects how engineers analyze design needs in sneakers and everyday items. The goal is for students to understand the basics of...
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: Dangers of Inhalants
This website provides a very simple explanation of what inhalants are and how they harm the body. Included is a chart showing the names of abused inhalants that are common household items.
EL Education
El Education: Now and Long Ago
Students create a coloring book comparing common present day items to the way the items would have looked during colonial times. Illustrations were inspired by field trips to a nearby colonial living history museum.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Metrics in the Home and in the Store
In this lesson plan site, learners will compare SI unit (metric) measurements of common household items and their English equivalents.