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Curated OER

Suffering in Sudan

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students investigate the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan. They examine the make up of the rebel groups involved in the fighting and the attempts to resolve the conflict.
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Curated OER

Kiskiack: Changing Architectural Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compare and contrast the changing Native and English colonial architectural landscape of the 17th and 18th centuries. Students research and evaluate how economic technology, and the environment reflected cultural changes...
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Curated OER

USS Alligator

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Student study the USS Alligator, the United States' first submarine. They describe the United States' first submarine, the USS Alligator's technology in 1862 and its voyages. A nautical vocabulary list is included for student reference.
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Curated OER

Metric Mania

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils observe how to measure in metric units.  In this investigative lesson students compare different units of volume to see how things are measured.
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Finding Volume: Water Displacement Method

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the water-displacement method to find the volume of different rods that all have the same mass.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Calculating the Effect of Mass, Length and Displacement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics lab activity young scholars investigate how mass, length and angular displacement affect the period of a simple pendulum. Students control variables, testing one variable at a time, using manual techniques (stopwatch,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Maximizing Displacement: Mass, Volume and Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This problem-solving activity demonstrates the concepts of mass, volume, and density and how they relate to displacement.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Vector Addition: Determining the Displacement in Your School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics indoor lab students calculate the displacement from one corner of the school to the other.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Molar Relationships: Observing a Single Displacement Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this chemistry lab, young scholars will investigate a single replacement reaction while also using knowledge of molar ratios to determine percent yields.
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US Department of Energy

Us Dept of Energy:mining Silicon Througha Single Displacement/redox Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will participate in a laboratory investigation that models the production of silicon. The activity investigates the sources, uses, properties, and importance in the fields of photovoltaics (solar cells/renewable energy) of silicon.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Student Analysis: Determine the Acceleration of a Toy Car

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, learners measure the displacement and elapsed time of a moving toy car using a direct measurement video with an embedded frame counter. They then calculate average and final velocity, and the average acceleration, and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners use modeling clay, a material that is denser than water and thus ordinarily sinks in water, to discover the principle of buoyancy. They begin by designing and building boats out of clay that will float in water, and then refine...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Floaters and Sinkers

For Teachers 6th - 9th
This lesson introduces students to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students can also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Students devise methods to determine...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: A Refugee's Story (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students watch a 19-minute documentary that tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014, who is now counseling newly arrived refugees. In this activity, students explore through classroom...
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Other

National Science Digital Library: Smile: Aesop's Arithmetic

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A cross-curricular lesson plan integrating Aesop's The Crow and the Pitcher with an experiment testing the outcome of the fable using volume and displacement concepts.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Will the Cup of Water Overflow When the Ice Melts?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students predict and observe what happens when the ice cubes in a cup of water melt and displace water.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Attack of the Raging River

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, the students will discover the relationship between an object's mass and the amount of space it takes up (its volume). The students will also learn about the concepts of displacement and density.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Destruction and Rebirth at Bergen Belsen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bergen Belsen was a concentration camp which became a displaced person camp after liberation. By studying this camp, we can trace the path Jewish survivors took from prisoners to generating a new life. Students will come to understand...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Projectile Magic

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students watch video clips from October Sky and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to learn about projectile motion. They explore the relationships between displacement, velocity and acceleration and calculate simple projectile...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Chapter 3: Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Six interactive chemistry lessons about density complete with handouts and animations.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Despite It All, I Am Alive

For Students 9th - 10th
Liberation was met with excitement, but also sadness and anxiety. Many people had no home or loved ones to return to. This easily navigable slideshow chronicles life after liberation, loneliness, DP camps, and new homes using photographs...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Despite It All I Am Alive

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Liberation was not only exciting, it was also heartbreaking and scary for a lot of the Jewish survivors. Many had no home or family to return to. Using this site, students can click on a picture and learn more about life after...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Immigration: Destroying the Native American Cultures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Detailed and extensive account of the plight of Native Americans during the westward growth of America. Includes maps, audio recordings, authentic letters, speeches,a great timeline, and much more.

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