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Photograph Lesson

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students bring a favorite photograph to class and discuss what they see and don't see in the photos. They brainstorm with the teacher on the overhead and then translate the information into poetic form.
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Energy: The Universal Currency

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Science stars examine the concept of energy by thinking about everyday situations. The lesson plan is incohesive. It lists goals for the student, but doesn't address all of them in the content. The best use of this resource would simply...
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Spin Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
The best part about spin art is that is demonstrates the concept of centrifugal force. Explore the magical spin of gravity as you make colorful art. This lesson idea is short, very simple, and requires a spin art machine.
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Integer Addition

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the concept of integer addition. In this integer addition instructional activity, 7th graders tell stories involving addition and subtraction. Students walk on a number line given directions such as add 3 or add...
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Power in the Tubes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the relationship between force, distance and time.  In this physical science lesson students compute the work done, graph and find the relationship between work and power. 
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Force: Push and Pull

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this force learning exercise, students answer short answer questions about pushing and pulling different objects. Students complete 15 questions.
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What is Work?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the connection between work, potential energy, kinetic energy, and heat. In this physics lesson, students use pulleys to produce mechanical advantages and incline planes to demonstrate energy conversion.
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Getting the Oil Out

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners discover ways of obtaining oil by participating in an experiment.  For this natural resource lesson, students identify diagrams of oil derricks and pumps in order to visualize how oil is retrieved from the earth....
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Mechanical Advantage

For Students 10th - 12th
In this mechanical advantage worksheet, learners use the equation for mechanical advantage to solve for output force or input force. Students complete 3 problems.
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Too Much or Too Little Information-Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this too much, too little word problems instructional activity, students complete a set of 2 questions after reading a scenario at the top of the page, determining whether there is too much/too little information, then solving if...
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Experiments with Levers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate levers. For this simple machine lesson, students study levers and  the mechanical advantage of using levers. They will collect data and illustrate their systems for eight different tests.
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Work

For Students 10th - 12th
In this work worksheet, students use the equation for work to solve for distance or force. This worksheet has 20 problems to solve.
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The Bus

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students must work cooperatively in teams to move a large mat around the gymnasium. This lesson plan focuses on working well together as a group to complete a task.
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Catch a Dream

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students apply the concepts of air pressure, the Bernoulli Effect, and angle of attack to build their own model planes out of paper, plastic, wooden rods, and drinking straws.
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Raise, Rise, and Raze

For Students 4th - 8th
In this raise, rise, and raze worksheet, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Dimensional Analysis Problem Set

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students, after studying various pages of a NASA Web-based textbook, use dimensional analysis to verify actual aeronautic equations.
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Science-- "Moving the World?"- Learning About Levers

For Students 4th - 5th
In this levers worksheet, students read a one page information text about the three classes of levers. Students then analyze 10 pictures of simple machines and circle the fulcrum point. Students classify each machine according to the...
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Bubble Wrap Prints

For Teachers K
Students explore bubble wrap, and create prints by painting on the bubble wrap, and pressing paper onto it.
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The Magic School Bus Goes on Air

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students conduct an experiment to determine the properties of air based on a Magic School Bus adventure. They inflate and deflate zipper plastic bags to show that air takes up space and holds objects. They associate this with riding a...
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Breathing Victory

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners discuss anaerobic respiration and how it relates to sprinting. After discussion of related processes, students create a brochure that explains the complex processes behind every muscular interaction.
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Exercise and Muscles

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify and label the primary and secondary muscles used to perform an exercise. Students perform an exercise on a weight machine to figure out which muscles are being used. Students illustrate the muscles used by...
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Positioning the fulcrum in class one levers

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the relationship between force and the distance of the load from the fulcrum.  In this experimental lesson students get into groups and make a lever and record the force that is needed to move it, they then try this...
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Levers 1

For Students 4th - 6th
For this levers worksheet, students follow directions to making levers with a ruler, weights, pennies, and more. Students then see how much force is needed when adding more weights.
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Storey/story

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this storey and story worksheet, learners choose the correct word to complete the sentences. Students choose storey or story for 6 sentences total.

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