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Television Watching Workout

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students exercise during a thirty minute television program. They break the 30 minutes into 5 parts (Program, Commercials, Program, Commercials, and Program). They exercise during the commercials, and rest during the program.
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How Much Does it Cost to Light Your School?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the cost of electricity used to light their classrooms. They compute the cost of electricity as well as the number of kilowatt hours of electricity used during the school year. Students compute the number of tons of coal...
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Who Will Get the Last Drop?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners discuss the importance of California's water system. In this earth science instructional activity, student play the role of different stakeholders. They present a 2-3 minute argument on their group's perspective about their need...
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Units of Time: Calendar

For Students 6th - 7th
In this units of time worksheet, students first read the information about calendars, days, hours, weeks, years. Students solve 30 problems. Note: This page was intended to be an online activity, but can be completed with pencil and paper.
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Using the Newspaper to Teach Division and Time Conversion

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use classified ads to select a career. In this math lesson, students convert the listed salary to an hourly, yearly, weekly and monthly rate. Students explain the process they used to find the various rates.
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Science: Breathing in Space

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils determine the amount of air they use during rest and activity. They conduct experiments to calculate the number of breaths needed to empty a jug of water by exhaling through a tube into the container. Then, they figure how much...
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Pirate PE Field Day

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students participate in movement activities while completing "pirate" stations. They rotate through the activities every 6-7 minutes. They complete activities such as "Walk the Plank, Gone Fishin', Cannon Blast, and Swab the Deck."
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Biological and Cultural Diversity of a Latin American Country

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students conduct an 8 hour Annual Summit Meeting on the Cultural and Biological Diversity of a Latin American Country. They construct a Rainforest, coffee and banana plantations, and a street scene of a typical large city.
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Coal Flowers

For Teachers K - 5th
Students observe the effect of various chemicals on coal. Using coal, laundry bluing, water, salt, and ammonia, they observe crystal formations after a period of a few hours, and discuss their observations.
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Life with Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify forms of energy and the advantages/disadvantages of different forms of energy. They describe ways in which technology affects the environment both good and bad. Finally, benefits are determines as well as the...
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Telling Time: Quarter Past

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this telling time to fifteen minutes worksheet, students examine 9 clocks that have times written under them. All clocks tell fifteen minutes past the hour. There are no questions for students to answer on this page.
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Pollen Collection And Identification

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils investigate plant reproduction, pollen collection and identification. They collect pollen samples over a twenty four hour period and examine them under a microscope.
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Student Weather Journal

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students recognize different types of cloud patterns and associate these patterns with certain types of weather. They predict the weather for the next 6 to 24 hours. They then improve their observation skills as they check on the weather...
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How Long Does It Take?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the lengths of time various activities take and calculate how long is spent on these activities in a week. They complete a worksheet for each activity that is timed, and calculate lengths of time for simulated...
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Extra Practice with Time: Using menos

For Students 6th - 8th
How do you tell time in Spanish? Provide each learner with this reference guide and practice sheet to introduce telling time in another language. Begin by reading through the first two informational pages that describe how time is...
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Dirty Decomposers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Do not let the class just sit and rot. Pupils learn how decomposition and nutrient recycling is important to an ecosystem. Groups design an experiment to determine how environmental conditions affect decomposition. They develop a poster...
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Cooking with the Sun

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore using energy from the sun for heating and cooking as they build and compare the performance of four solar cooker designs. This excellent two-day lesson has groups of students build and test a variety of solar cookers....
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Wizardry and Chemistry

For Teachers 11th - 12th
No need to go to Ollivanders to buy a magic wand. In the chemistry lab activity, young magicians mix chemicals to create combustible compounds. By applying these compounds to an iron wire, they create magic wands.
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2002 U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad National Exam - Part III

For Students 9th - 12th
Two laboratory problems are put forth for chemistry students. They are to plan and carry out an experiment that will answer each of the questions. The first asks them to investigate a relationship between the surface area of a potato and...
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The Grid

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Upper graders form a "Presidential Task Force," and attempt to make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. After a teacher-led discussion which proves that our nation's energy consumption will soon outpace our...
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Poisoned Picnic

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A group of teachers attended a picnic; ten became sick and another four died. Young scholars must solve the mystery of what happened. They research the river, waste water treatment plant, each food that was served, and environmental...
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2006 U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Part III

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chemistry Olympiad lab worksheet, learners are given two lab problems to design experiments. Topics include determining the mass percentage of a given compound and determining an unknown metal using quantitative and qualitative...
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2001 U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Part III

For Students 9th - 12th
Here is a comprehensive method for assessing chemistry learners' knowledge; have them approach two laboratory problems, plan their methods of solving each, and then actually carry out the experiments to find the answers. Both the...
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1999 U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Part III

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chemistry olympiad laboratory worksheet, learners design and carry out two experiments. They design one experiment to test for the percent mass of a substance in a solution and they design another experiment to identify two...

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