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Weights and Measures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students master the gathering, averaging and graphing of data. They practice conversion to metric measures. They gain fluency in the use of technology tools for math operations.
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Skates

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students gain understanding of structure, characteristics, and basic needs of living things and their role in world, identify parts of skate, observe details of skate's body and skate egg case, and identify unique characteristics of skates.
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Designing Tools for Ocean Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the methods and tools used in ocean exploration. They, in groups, simulate an ocean exploration and consider what tools facilitate the exploration's objectives.
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Tortured Beauty

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students compare and contrast two fundamentally different treatments of women, one Chinese and one Japanese, and to examine how this reflects on the culture that produced them.
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Why Does the Bulb Light When There is Flow?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze light bulbs and their design. They create filaments and build a circuit for testing the filaments. Through experimentation, students discover how filament wire works. They explore the role of protons, electrons, and...
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Scale Basketball

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars discuss scale diagrams and maps as well as the use of spreadsheets to find the best scale to use in a model before practicing scale and ratio problems on their own.
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Metric Conversions Worksheet

For Students 7th - 10th
In this metric learning exercise, students examine conversion factors for length, mass, volume and area. Definitions of prefixes and metric abbreviations are identified.
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The Jensen Bar - What is It and How to Make One

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify and make a Jensen Bar. In this Jensen Bar lesson, students study pictures of Jensen Bars and then build their own bar using the listed materials and given directions.
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Worm Composting: Vermiculture

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Young scholars compost in a limited space and describe the decomposing process. Students convert unwanted, organic matter, particularly food scraps and paper into fertile soil.
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Solving Problems Using Proportions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems that are in word form in order to find the proper type of proportion for the solution.
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Roller Coasters in the Classroom

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students define kinetic energy and know the effects of weight and speed on momentum.  In this investigative lesson students get into groups and design a roller coaster. 
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ROLLER COASTERS IN THE CLASSROOM

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Students define potential and kinetic energy and explain the relationship of height to potential energy.  In this roller coaster lesson students construct a model of a roller coaster which will allow them to see the basic physical...
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners add or subtract fraction parts of mixed numbers before adding or subtracting the whole number parts. In this fractions lesson plan, students learn to use a ruler to help them add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
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Perimeter and Area

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the relationship between area and perimeter of rectangles. In this area and perimeter lesson, 6th graders measure and determine perimeter and area of various rectangles. Students create rectangles with given areas...
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Robot Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify and use descriptive writing and measurement terms to describe a student-created robot. Then they construct robots of materials available and then use AlphaSmarts or Danas to describe the robot using only the dimensions....
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Seaside Wind Chime

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this craft worksheet, students learn about common seashells (especially in Florida) by first reading and looking at the photographs of 6 common shells. Students follow detailed instructions to construct a seaside wind chime of shells...
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Polarized Light

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study polarized light and explain how they know it is polarized.  In this polarized light lesson students complete a lab that shows them how light can be polarized. 
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Understanding Our Planet's Food Web

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders, in groups, examine how humans have a tenuous position as part of an ecosystem.
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An Underwater Sediment Slide?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the proximity of the Hudson Shelf Valley and the Hudson Canyon to one of the Nation's most populated areas. They study that from 1987 to 1992, two dumpsites in the Hudson Shelf Valley and Hudson Canyon, one 12 miles
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Absolute Value Word Problems: Practice A

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate absolute value equations and inequalities. In this Algebra I lesson plan, 9th graders solve and graph absolute value equations and inequalities. Students translate verbal expressions into absolute value...
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NATIVE AMERICAN WEAVERS

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore Native American weavers by making a pattern, repeating that pattern on a strip of paper, and weaving the paper onto a loom.
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Winterizing the School Forest

For Teachers K - 8th
Students wood chip and water trees.
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Magic Wand

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students observe how an image falling on a CCD array is divided into individual pieces, by the property of persistance of vision.
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Flying Tube

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate how a spinning paper tube generates lift as it travels forward.

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