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Growth and Changes in Plants
Students investigate the growth and changes in plants. They view a video and discuss the changes in plants. They work in small groups to demonstrate vocabulary words to the class. They visit a green house and take pictures of plants to...
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Engineering
Students examine how Shell uses engineering. In this engineering principles instructional activity students visit a web-pages, answer questions, and examine the ways that engineers go about exploring different ideas.
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Automated Vehicle Programming Design
Students design a program to make an automated vehicle perform a specific task. In this robotics lesson plan, students play the role of scientists competing to win a factory's contract. They present their algorithm to class.
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Investigation of Hooke's Law Lab
Learners determine the spring constant by conducting an investigation. In this physics instructional activity, students collect data and create a graph of force vs. displacement. They compare the results of two different methods to find...
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Ballistic Pendulum Lab
Students determine the muzzle velocity of projectile launcher. In this physics lesson plan, students compare the pendulum method and kinematic method in calculating the initial velocity. They analyze data and discuss results in class.
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Pump it Up
Students explore the rising cost of gasoline and how it impacts people around the world differently.
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The New Wind Turbine
Students study the basic components of a modern wind machine. In this investigative lesson plan students investigate and find out if there are any wind machines in their state, how many and how much power they produce.
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Weather Patterns
Students use yearly averages over a five-year period to understand weather trends for a specific area.
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Transportation in Canada
Students investigate the effect human activities have on the environment. For this geography lesson, students compose an article using data analysis about the environment. This article requires some homework assignment.
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Noah's Ark, Revisited
Fourth graders do a visual presentation for a specific endangered species.