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Tight Rope

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learn how to explore the concept of linear functions.  In this linear functions lesson, high schoolers collect linear data from a motion detector.  Students walk to create a linear function.  High schoolers plot the points on a graph and...
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We Care About Fire Safety

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the hazards of fires and how to best protect themselves and their family.  In this home safety lesson, students examine the importance of a smoke detector and discover how many homes are missing them among their...
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How Bright are the Stars?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners observe the brightness of stars and are introduced to the concept of apparent brightness as a measure of how much light hits a detector of a surface area during a given time. In this star lesson, students make connections...
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Curve Ball

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Learners explore the concept of parabolas by collecting quadratic data on a bouncing ball as it is falling using a motion detector. They plot the data and determine the equation of the quadratic in vertex form, then determine the values...
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A Steep Hike

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars explore slope.  In this middle school mathematics activity, students analyze and interpret graphs as they investigate slope as a rate of change.  Young scholars use a motion detector to collect data as they walk at...
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Liquid Crystal IR Detector

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment with one method of detecting infrared radiation. They simulate the detection of infrared radiation using a liquid crystal sheet.
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TOPSY TURVY MAPS

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use the data analyzer and motion detector to collect data and measure distances. They create topographic maps drawn to scale of a given setup and relate the concepts to the creation of historical ocean maps.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Pollution Patrol

For Teachers 2nd - 12th Standards
Students design and build an outdoor air pollution detector, test their designs, and communicate their results.  In this investigative instructional activity students work in teams to design their detectors and use everyday items to do...
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Windy Weather

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Make wind detectors with paper plates, ribbon, and streamers. Go for walks over an extended period of time to observe and record the effect of the wind on the detectors and other observable objects (leaves, grass, etc.).
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Is Your Blue Really Blue? [Metamerism]

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars learn fundamentals about color perception, and explain the phenomenon called "metamerism". Students learn the three basic components of color perception: light source, illuminated colored object, and the light detector.
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Science: Objects That Rotate with Gravity

For Teachers K - 12th
Students conduct experiments in gravity by rolling objects down an incline and determining which ones roll slower than others. As part of the experiment, they design objects which will roll the slowest. Using digital movie cameras or...
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Waves Through Earth: Interactive Online Mac and PC

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a JAVA activity to vary the seismic P and S wave velocity through each of four concentric regions of Earth. They match "data" for travel times vs. angular distance around Earth's surface from the source to detector.
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Fire Safety Skills Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice their fire safety skills of stop, drop and roll, as well as moving low (crawling) through a low organized tag game. They discuss fire safety practices and the importance of smoke detectors. Students experience...
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Impulse/Momentum Lab

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate the relationship between force and momentum using motion detectors and sensors. In this physics lesson, students graph experimental results. They calculate impulse using the area under the graph.
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Electroscope

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine what an electroscope is and who invented it.  In this electrical lesson plan students build their own Emergency Radiation detector Electroscope.
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American Chemical Society

Air, It's Really There

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Love is in the air? Wrong — nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide are in the air. The final lesson in the series of five covers the impact of temperature on gases. Scholars view a demonstration of gas as a type of matter before performing...
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Normal Community High School

Density

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Change the density of water by adding minerals. The presentation discusses density—from the definition to calculations—and applies it to the real world. It briefly mentions specific gravity, and finishes by showing Archimedes' principle. 
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National Institute of Open Schooling

p-Block Elements and Their Compounds – I

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Lesson 21 in a series of 36 specifically focuses on elements and their compounds from groups 13, 14, and 15 on the periodic table — including boron, carbon, aluminum, silicon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Classes learn how some of these...
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Mathed Up!

Distance Time Graphs

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
If only there was a graph to show the distance traveled over a period of time. Given distance-time graphs, pupils read them to determine the answers to questions. Using the distance and time on a straight line, scholars calculate the...
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Sciencenter

Carrying Charges

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What's all the buzz about electricity? Scholars take part in a scientific activity to test the conductivity of liquids and solutions. They first see if water, salad oil, alcohol, and vinegar cause a buzzer to buzz when electrodes are...
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Exploring Ultraviolet (UV) Light From the Sun

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the different energy given off by the sun. In this earth science lesson, students predict where the UV beads will turn the darkest color. They explain the importance of using UV protection.
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Invisible Investigations

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students simulate how charged particles move in a particle detector. In this physics lesson, students observe how iron filings behave when magnetic marbles are passed underneath them. They record and draw their observations.
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Graphing Speed

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use LOGAL motion detector probe and observe a generated graph as a student performs various standard motions, and make measurements of time and distance. They suggest various time and distance measurements which a student can...
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Health Education: An integrated Approach; Exit Drills in the Home

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders learn about fire safety in the home in order to plan escape routes while avoiding smoke inhalation. In this fire safety lesson, 3rd graders first discuss a smoke detector and its purpose, and then discover the importance of...

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