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Life After Trash
Learners explain how recycling cuts down on greenhouse gases, and explore the consequences of global warming. In this global warming lesson students divide into teams and create a useful product made out of recyclable items.
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Sound Wave Reflection
Learners explore sound waves. In this sound wave lesson, students determine the path traveled by sound waves in an acoustic room. Learners consider how sound travels and reflects, then they calculate the rate sound travels at.
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Package Those Foods!
Students create a food package for a specific food. For this marketing lesson students divide into groups and research, design, produce, market and analyze packaging.
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Lift and Pull
Middle schoolers examine the mechanical advantage of pulleys. In this pulleys lesson students are given a challenge to help save a whale by setting up different pulleys systems to move it.
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Nanotechnology
Fifth graders examine the factors that affect the strength of the contact forces between interacting surfaces. In this nature interactions lesson students complete several activities.
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Paper Structures
Learners study material strength and how it varies with shape and arrangement. In this paper structures instructional activity students work in teams to build a portable paper structure that can support the weight of a book.
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Engineered Music
Learners study engineering design. In this engineering music lesson students plan and construct a design while working in groups.
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Weather Forecasting
Learners describe how weather forecasting has evolved. In this forecasting lesson students study the different types and ways that people forecast weather.
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Solar Cooking
Students experiment with a virtual solar cooker to discover the relationship between reflection, transmission, and absorption. In this solar cooking lesson plan students apply what they learn to construct their own solar cooker.
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Harnessing Wind
Students examine how engineers utilize the wind. In this wind instructional activity students examine the different kinds of winds and measure wind direction.
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A Garden on the Moon
Young scholars identify criteria and constraints related to the design and development of a plant growth chamber. In this engineering lesson students apply the engineering design process to solve a problem.
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Design and Race a Solar Car
Students design, construct and evaluate a solar powered model car. In this solar power instructional activity students compete in a "solar sprint" race once their car is created.
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Build a Robot Arm
Students work in teams to design and build a working robotic arm using everyday items. In this building robots lesson students develop an understanding of design processes and the impact that technology has in manufacturing.
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Cracking the Code
Young scholars explore encoding systems and decoding technology. In this barcoding lesson students examine how coding impacts society including distribution, and inventory.
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Building Up, Breaking Down
Students examine construction materials and their uses. In this building lesson students create their own poster and share it with the class.
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Selling and Buying a Green Car
High schoolers investigate the concerns over fuel sources and the debate over ethanol as an energy source. In this alternative energy lesson students complete an activity of selling and buying an environmentally friendly car.
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Green Roof Design
High schoolers design a heat and water conserving "green roof". In this urban environmental lesson, students will design a heat and water conserving "green roof" to improve a building's energy profile.
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Holiday Lights and Circuits
Students create a simple circuit using batteries, wires, and light bulbs. In this circuits lesson plan, students learn the difference between a series circuit and a parallel circuit and connect it to holiday lights they use in their home.
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Learn about Torque
Students calculate torque and determine its uses. In this lesson on torque, students watch a video and teacher demonstrations and work with a small group on a lab activity. Students provide example of how torque is used in daily life,...
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Punting and Projectile Motion
Young scholars explore the concept of projectile motion. In this physics lesson, students watch the video "Science of NFL Football – Projectile Motion and Parabolas." Young scholars participate in computer simulations on the range of...
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Harvest Water from Fog
Students investigate the different forms of water by turning fog into drinkable water. In this harvesting lesson, students discuss and observe photographs of fog and why it is essential for some countries to collect water from fog using...
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Map the Green Space
Students investigate the environment in their community by creating a presentation. In this environment instructional activity, students utilize cameras to document the green spaces in their community and the benefits they create for...
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Oil and Energy Consumption
Learners analyze the oil consumption and production information. In this investigative activity students take the data collected, graph and organize it then draw conclusions about the use of oil worldwide.
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Design a Solar Building
Students investigate the thermal energy storage capacity of different test materials to determine which to use in their solar building design. In this thermal energy lesson students design and build their own solar building.
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