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On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to contemporary essays about life on the Lower East Side of New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These essays cover a range of topics and are well worth exploring to find out what problems writers were exposing...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: "Mystery and the Unknown": Teaching Inquiry Through Aquatic Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This field experience takes place at our school site pond. Students will use inquiry and direct observation to discover the types of aquatic animals that live in our school site pond. Students will record their findings in a journal, and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hajj: Islamic Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the five pillars of Islam central to Muslim belief, Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim must make at least once in their lifetime if they are able; it is the most spiritual event that a Muslim experiences, observing...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Observing Stabilizing and Directional Selection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this biology lab young scholars will compare two sample populations of sunflower seeds. Comparison of the two populations will be done through the generation of a histogram for each population. One population will be black oil...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Focused Observation: Recording Information Seen on a Hike

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars focus their observations during a nature hike by recording their observations on a sheet of paper which has been horizontally divided into thirds. Alongside the divisions is a stick figure with the top of the head touching...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Direction of Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this short lab, students use Tonka trucks to observe the acceleration of a object as it initiates acceleration, maintains a steady speed, and slows to a stop.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Artful Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
African artists commonly base their work on animals observed in their natural habitats. Artful Animals lets you view African art that takes animals as its subject and inspiration. Learn about animals as symbols in African art, the beauty...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Bird Characteristics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will learn bird characteristics through observation and classifying activities. Indoors they will be introduced to bird study through learning about John James Audubon, followed by a basic drawing lesson to aid...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Android Pendulums

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the motion of a simple pendulum through direct observation and data collection using Android devices and the AccelDataCapture app.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigation of a Mealworm

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A lab activity where students make observations about mealworms to form questions and decide what direction their investigation will take. While studying mealworms, students will choose a variable to change to observe changes to the...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Tree Ring Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will manipulate a hands-on, physical model to better comprehend the natural variations of tree-ring width and their uses for determining past climatic conditions. Students use the model as a real-world data...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Evidence for Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the evidence for evolution: anatomy, molecular biology, biogeography, fossils, & direct observation.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Could We Create Dark Matter?

For Students 9th - 10th
We don't know what dark matter is made of, and we've yet to directly observe it, but scientists theorize that we may actually be able to create it in the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle collider in the world. CERN...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometry in Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, learners observe symmetry, geometric shapes, and angles in two Early American dances, and then choreograph their own dance with symmetrical figures. Media and teaching materials are included.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Ants Go Marching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students experiment and make observations on a directed graph. The lesson is framed in the context of an ant colony which is in search of the best path to get to food. If an...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Have fun with drama and the weather with this pantomime play about weather concepts! Lists characters, props, and directions for each character.
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Evidence for Evolution: How Can Evolution Be Observed?

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called Evolution that accompanies a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. In this section, he describes how artificial selection has provided many examples of evolutionary change. Examples...
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute Online: Keep Your Own Weather Journal

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site, which is provided for by the Franklin Institute Online, gives a format for keeping a weather journal.
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Beginning Reporting: The News Lead Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You have exactly 3 seconds to interest your reader in reading all your story. No pressure, right? Reporter Jim Hall offers some observations on writing effective leads on this page.
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Quia

Quia: Nature of Science Scientific Method Concentration

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play a game of concentration by matching terms used in the scientific method to their proper description.
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Quia

Quia: Nature of Science Scientific Method Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 8th
Review the nature of science with on-line flash cards.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Tsimihety

For Students 9th - 10th
The term "Tsimihety" usually refers to one of the eighteen or twenty tribes or ethnic groups of the Republic of Madagascar; however, Tsimihety possess neither political unity nor an ideology of unity. They are best described as an...
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Voyages: Scientific Circumnavigations: Dampier

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the unlikely journals and observations of William Dampier, an English pirate who sailed the Pacific, making landfall in the Philippines, East Indies, and Australia. See his maps, descriptions of the Pacific, and observations...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Water Quality of the Root River in Lanesboro, Mn

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This field investigation will be in collaboration with Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in Lanesboro, MN link to Eagle Bluff. It will include chemical, biological, and physical tests. The chemical tests will include kits where...

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