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Van de Graaff Generator

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore static electricity using the Van de Graaff generator. In this physics lesson plan, students construct their own Van de Graaff using simple materials. They explain how charges accumulate on this device.
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Science Lesson: Home-made Generator

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners are able to design and conduct an experiment related to electrical generation. They are able to list the factors that affect the amount of current that can be generated by a simple generator, such as the number of turns of...
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Generational Music Communities

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students focus on age-related generations to assess how traditional music is transmitted from one generation to another and how music functions for people within a generation. They compare/contrast and explore music in their own...
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Green Learning

Build Your Own Biogas Generator

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Where this is not exactly a lesson plan, it is a terrific outline of how to generate biogas from an animal manure sample. If you are up for the challenge, the generator can be built by your class as a concluding project at the end of an...
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Denver Art Museum

From Generation to Generation

For Teachers K - 5th
Kids find out through art analysis and discussion that a plate isn't always just a plate, but the product of pottery skills passed down from generation to generation. After considering the skill and art of pottery, they interview a...
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Analyzing Text Structure: “Generation Z Stereotyped”

For Teachers 7th Standards
Breaking the stereotype. Readers use the Generation Z Stereotyped Structure anchor chart and find the central idea of the text. They then read Generation Z with partners and discuss the text using guiding questions. Finally, they answer...
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Energy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, while all text and no graphics make Energy a dull presentation. It is informative, teaching viewers about work, conservation of energy, and sources that can be used to generate electricity. It...
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Urbana School District

Electrostatics

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Why did lightning shock the man? Because it didn't know how to conduct itself. Presentation covers electric charges, insulators, conductors, electroscopes, lightning, generators, grounding, static electricity, and more. Presentation is...
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Generating a Test

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Use this group test-writing and review strategy for any subject. It has groups writing 15-question tests at the end of a unit on WWI. Each group generates test questions using knowledge and materials from the unit. They also create a...
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Bocce Ball - Lesson 3 - Generating Forces

For Teachers 7th - 10th
You can teach Bocce ball to most age levels. The biggest concern with younger players is safety; they need to learn how to throw the Bocce balls without inadvertently hurting another player. The focus in this lesson is how to generate...
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How Power Plants Work 3

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble! Find out what drives a turbine to generate electricity and whether or not it has an impact on the environment. A discussion and lecture is divided by a hands-on activity in...
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Pass It Down

For Teachers 1st - 11th
Pupils in varying grades work cooperatively to create a living museum of items that have been "passed down" through generations. They give a brief oral presentation showing their object (or a picture of it) and describing its history and...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Van de Graaff Discharge

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Your class will definitely get a charge out of an electric interactive! Show young scientists what really happens when you place a wand near a Van de Graaff generator using a simulation. Pupils add varying amounts of negative charge to...
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Lesson: Younger Than Jesus: Is a Young Generation's Multimedia Work Art?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How has art changed? Are young people artists? What is art? These questions are up for discussion as critical thinkers examine several works of art expressed through multimedia. There are five different sessions outlined, complete with...
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Encourage A New Generation of Peacemakers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Integrate this essay-writing contest into your high school classroom to develop writing skills and encourage international study.
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Story Generators

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars develop news stories for the high school paper based on current issues in the local news. Students identify different sources for articles, and develop interviews questions. In this news ideas and sources lesson plan,...
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GENERATE YOUR OWN HYDROPOWER

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build a water wheel, a simple galvanometer, and a simple hydropower generator, plus detect the electricity generated.
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DC Generator Theory

For Students 9th - 11th
 For this online worksheet students answer a series of 14 essay or short answer questions explaining the DC generator theory. The correct answer is available to check their responses to each question. The questions vary in complexity....
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BRIDGING THE GENERATION GAP

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create a hypothesis about the attitudinal differences between generations, test their hypothesis with a survey, chart their findings, and present their answers to the class.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Pre-reading Activities to Generate Student Interest In Novels

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Teachers can generate excitement about required reading by engaging in pre-reading activities.
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Power to the Pedal!

For Students 6th - 7th
In this pedal power instructional activity, students solve a math puzzle in order to determine how much power could be generated by pedaling a bicycle. They try to figure out how much power would be needed to run a child's laptop, and...
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PHET

Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
"But still try, for who knows what is possible." - Michael Faraday. Faraday's advice features in a simulation that permits pupils to play with a bar magnet in order to make a light bulb glow connecting electromagnetic induction to...
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Electricity Generation

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study the history of electricity and the different ways we generate electricity.  In this electricity lesson students complete several experiments on generating power.
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The Generation Gap as a Result of Media Use

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students compare digital natives and digital immigrants. In this media usage lesson, students read "The Generation Gap is Not New" and then compare today's generation gap with the generation gap of the 1920's.

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