Curated OER
Skipping
Students investigate skipping and sliding. In this movement lesson, students practice skipping and sliding while holding colored chalk marking the wall mixing the colors to make different colors.
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Sports and Exercise Activity
Eighth graders practice utilizing motor skills by participating in different sports activities. In this physical education lesson, 8th graders participate in racquetball, shuttle cock, and baseball style activities in order to...
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Physical Education - Gallop
Learners practice galloping. In this gross motor skills lesson, students review how to jump and hop using a jump-rope and hopscotch. The teacher shows the steps to gallop and they hold a noodle and pretend as if they are riding a...
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Rhythmic Dancing
Fourth graders practice expressing themselves through the art of dance. In this physical education instructional activity, 4th graders discuss choreography and how moving specific ways at certain times can be artistic. ...
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Tae-Bo
Seventh graders explore physical fitness by performing Tae Bo. In this physical education lesson, 7th graders practice using mixed martial arts techniques by completing a Tae Bo fitness exercise in class. Students reflect on...
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Present Progressive
Students use the present progressive to describe what they're doing at a specific moment in time.
Curated OER
Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills
Pupils engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Lcr Meter Working Principle and Uses
Explains what an LCR meter is and how it is used to measure the inductance, capacitance, and resistance of a circuit. Lists the different parameters of a circuit that it measures, describes two types of LCR meters, and gives definitions...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Michael Faraday
A self-educated man with a brilliant mind, Michael Faraday was born in a hardscrabble neighborhood in London. Through the combination of insatiable curiosity and a powerful will to succeed, he transcended his austere beginnings to...
MadSci Network
Mad Scientist Network: Building a Wimshurst Machine
Using a question and answer format, this page is a response to a question on how to build and use a Wimshurst machine. Directions and suggestions for building such a device are given. The principle of electrostatic induction which...
Education Development Center
Making Mathematics: Proof
This is a site which links to specific techniques of proving including conditional statements, proof by contradiction, mathematical induction, parity arguments, and the pigeonhole principle. The site contains a link to various example...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Faraday's Ice Pail
Out of a humble ice pail the great experimentalist Michael Faraday created a device to demonstrate key principles of attraction, repulsion and electrostatic induction. (Java tutorial)
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motors and Magnetism
Students will build a simple DC motor out of metal coat hangers, a 24-guage wire armature and field magnet, 14-guage wire brushes, and build the motor so that it rotates when connected to a 10-volt DC power supply. Students will...
Other
Fagler College/nas 111/scientific Methodology
Power Point presentation on scientific method for NAS 102 Human and Environmental Biology II.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Stanley Transformer 1886
Applying discoveries Michael Faraday had made a few decades earlier, William Stanley designed the first commercial transformer for Westinghouse in 1886.
Philosophy Pages
Philosophy Pages: John Stuart Mill (1806 1873)
This is a site that's dedicated to the life and works of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 CE). The site provides numerous links to relevant information about his life and also his works on utilitarianism, individual liberty and women's rights...
Richland Community College
Richland Community College: Math 116 Lecture Notes
This site from the Richland Community College provides the detailed lecture notes to a college algebra course, complete with equations and definitions. Content ranges from "functions and their graphs" to "conics and parametric equations."