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Discovery Education

Future Fleet

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Turn your pupils into engineers who are able to use scientific principals to design a ship. This long-term project expects pupils to understand concepts of density, buoyancy, displacement, and metacenter, and apply them to constructing a...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Credit Cards - A Package Deal

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Arm your learners with the information they will need to make smart decisions regarding credit cards and personal savings.
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Rodrigo Neri

myHomework Student Planner

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
If you've been itching to replace your students' worn, lost, or insufficient paper planners, and to dramatically improve the efficiency of your own communication with your class members, then this is...
App
Mojang

Minecraft – Pocket Edition

For Students 4th - 12th
You don't have to be a Minecraft wiz to know that this app has great playability for your learners! As afterschool programs and classroom projects around the world demonstrate, this game goes well beyond placing blocks and traditional...
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Curated OER

Dry Ice: Simply Sublime

For Teachers 4th - 10th
A fascinating lesson on states of matter is here for your young scientists. Dry ice is used to challenge learners preconceived notions about how solids work. They discover all sorts of interesting facts about states of matter from...
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Curated OER

Make a Mission

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the terms exploration and technology. They read about the MESSENGER, Mission to Mercury, and answer questions. Next, they design and plan the technology for a space mission using an online interactive activity.
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Curated OER

How Do Our Attitudes Affect Waste?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers conduct a survey of society's typical purchasing practices to determine the influence of packaging on consumer choices and to determine if consumers consider waste disposal and recycling when making purchasing decisions.
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Curated OER

What Drives the Stock Prices?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers see that earnings drive stock prices. More importantly, students look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business.
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Curated OER

Survival in Antarctica

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore the harsh climate of Antarctica and its wildlife. Participate in experiments to determine how humans survive in the continent's climate, and address the difficulties faced by scientists.
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Curated OER

Expanding Your Horizons

For Students 7th - 11th
In this career categories worksheet, students complete a chart the requires them to add specific jobs titles under the appropriate headings. Students also research career options and fields they are interested in.
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Curated OER

How to Achieve Your Financial Goals

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting instructional activity, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Students identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Transportation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Teach your environmental studies, life science, or engineering class how an internal combustion engine works using the first few slides of the accompanying presentation. Then, focus in on the resulting carbon emissions. Finally, take a...
Handout
NOAA

Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Lightning. . . Nature's Most Violent Storms

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, and hail are just a few of the topics covered in a thorough weather preparedness guide. With descriptions of each weather phenomenon, from what causes them to how and when they occur to...
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National Energy Education Development Project

Exploring Nuclear Energy

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Every 18–24 months, nuclear power plants shut down to remove their used uranium fuel, a radioactive waste. Show learners how energy is made and used around the world and then focus on the United States' usage. Viewers then specifically...
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Teach Engineering

Concentrate This! Sugar or Salt...

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Heat up your lessons on boiling points. The resource provides a three-part activity: first, groups find the boiling point of solutions; second, they create boiling point curves for salt and sugar solutions; and third, they mix a solution...
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Curated OER

Cleaning up an oil spill

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Small groups complete a science project involving cleaning up an oil spill. In this experiment, pupils use 4 different sorbents to discover which one absorbs the most oil.  Afterward, they make a data table.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Multiplying Decimals Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
In this finding the products of decimals quiz activity, students solve computations and word problems. Students solve 14 problems.
App
Tiny Mobile

Poetry Creator | Verses

For Students 2nd - 8th
Construct from a canvas of words, lyrical expressions that your budding poets can share and post.  Based on refrigerator magnet poetry, creative writers can develop their poetry independently, or from a given prompt from their...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Saving and Investing for the Long Term

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Create savvy investors with an activity that uses an online resource to allow individuals to invest in the stock market. The teacher is able to track activity and progress. Stock tips and strategies are shared.
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Mascil Project

Packaging

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Wrap up an engineering lesson with a worthwhile project. An engineering design task challenges groups to develop a package for a pharmaceutical company given constraints on the volume. Learners then create a presentation to highlight...
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Curated OER

Investment Appraisal

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils use different methods of investment appraisal to make business decisions, and also to develop higher order skills through having to consider other factors, apart from quantitative methods, that a business might have to consider in...
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Curated OER

Externalities, Property Rights and Pollution

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss the positive and negative externalities of various situations. They use the concept of property rights in discussing specific problems.
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Curated OER

Externalities, Property Rights and Pollution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the various externalities for any type of production. Using that information, they examine situations in which they are positive and negative. They discuss government efforts to protect the environment and humans. In...
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Curated OER

Inflation and Money

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the relationship between inflation and money. Defining key terms, they define money in terms of its functions and give examples of money. They discover what happens when inflation occurs unexpectedly. They also examine...

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