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Converting Metric Measurements

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders convert metric measurements.
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Unit Conversions

For Students 7th - 12th
In this unit conversions worksheet, students practice converting measurements to the metric system. This worksheet has 8 problems to solve.
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Measurement Conversion

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this measurement worksheet, students convert 10 metric units of measurement to standard or English units for liquids, mass, and length. This worksheet is printable and no answers are available.
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Thermal Energy and Heat Unit

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explain that heat energy in a material consists of the disordered motions of its atoms or molecules. They know and explain that transformations of energy usually transform some energy into the form of heat, which dissipates by...
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Percentages in Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve for percentages using chemical reactions as a real life scenario. The convert to grams when determining percentage of mass. There are lots of examples on how to convert for different units.
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Math Skills: Conversions

For Students 8th - 10th
In this conversions worksheet, students use metric unit conversions to solve fifteen word problems that involve converting from one unit to another.
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Conversion Factors

For Students 8th - 12th
In this conversion factors learning exercise, students read word problems, convert them to equations, and compute the answer.  They determine the distance between two points and find the cost to travel a predetermined...
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Eating Through the Metric System

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders convert measurements in recipes to metric measurements and prepare the food items. They create a metric measurement cookbook.
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Investigation: Gas Laws in Action - Propane

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Using helium as an example of propane, physical science middle schoolers experiment with and graph the relationship between temperature and volume in gases. In a whole-class demonstration, they show how molecules behave under different...
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It's About Time!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine concept of time, and explore difference between analog and digital clocks; students make art project to represent time and create a time-story problem and solution.
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Electrostatics

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Why did lightning shock the man? Because it didn't know how to conduct itself. Presentation covers electric charges, insulators, conductors, electroscopes, lightning, generators, grounding, static electricity, and more. Presentation...
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Circuit Diagrams: Switching Circuits

For Students 4th - 6th
Use a lab sheet on circuit diagrams in your electricity unit. Fifth graders draw two series circuits with diagrams, based on two examples. A science experiment prompts learners to use 3x5 cards to illustrate the way a series circuit works.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Volume of Regular and Irregular Objects

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine patterns and relate to equations to solve math problems.  In this patterns lesson, 5th graders diagram, graph, use models and use tables to solve equations for real world problems.
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Reading Trees: Understanding Dendrochronology

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine tree-ring dating and discuss the lack of water the settlers in Jamestown faced. They create paper tree rings, simulate rain patterns, and describe the history of construction paper tree sequences.
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You say Avocado, I say Avogadro

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars convert mole to mass to particles and vice versa. In this chemistry lesson, students discuss the importance of Avogadro's number. They apply what they have learned in a team competition.
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Conversion Factors

For Students 9th - 12th
In this conversion factor worksheet, students convert 15 problems within the SI system of measurement. They show their work and indicate the proper units.
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The Perfect Storm

For Students 6th - 10th
In this weather worksheet, students read about the mechanics of a hurricane and then complete 4 short answer questions based on the reading.
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Stoichiometry

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Balancing equations is a foundational skill for starting chemists. There are a few slides in this PowerPoint with colorful diagrams that help to explain how. Unfortunately, the presentation begins with an unrelated table of contents and...
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Volume and Density Worksheet

For Students 6th - 9th
All 20 of the problems on the learning exercise involve the computation of cubic volume or density. As long as your young scientists can apply the appropriate mathematical formulas, they will succeed in solving these problems. They are...
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Customary Measurement Conversions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover in hands-on activities the relationships between the measures. They work in groups to create conversion tables using familiar measuring tools. Students solve problems requiring conversions.
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Factor Labeling

For Students 7th - 12th
In this factoring instructional activity, learners express numbers as a 3 significant digit number in scientific notation. Students practice converting mass, volume, and length. This instructional activity has 3 problems to solve.
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Chemical Calculations

For Students 10th - 12th
In this chemical calculations activity, students fill in 7 blanks with appropriate terms. They determine if 7 statements are true or false, they match 5 conversion problems to their solutions and they solve 2 stoichiometry problems using...
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Black Holes IV

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this black holes worksheet, students read about black holes and solve 3 problems where they calculate the Schwarschild radius of one, the number of grams/second a quasar luminosity implies for another and the number of suns per year a...
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Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students convert between scientific and standard notation and examine the link between scientific notation and the metric system prefixes.  The five page worksheet contains five multi-part...