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Gases Around Us
Students participate in an online lesson showing that gases are formed when liquids evaporate and that when a gas is cooled, it condenses to form a liquid, and gases move and flow more easily than liquids, and how gases differ from solids.
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Changing Sounds
Students identify how the pitch and the loudness of an instrument can be altered by examining the sounds made by three instruments.
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Micro-organisms
Learners examine how micro-organisms are living organisms that are often too small to be seen. They explain that micro-organisms may be beneficial or harmful.
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Forces in Action
Students ask questions that can be investigated scientifically. They determine how to plan a fair test by changing one factor while keeping other factors the same, to use measurements to draw conclusions and use scientific knowledge to...
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Changing Circuits
Students participate in an online lesson to explain how to make bulbs brighter or dimmer in a series circuit by changing the number or type of components.
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Using electricity
Students explore how a switch can be used to break a circut. Students construct a simple series circuit and use it for a purpose. Students read the "The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch,or one of the "Katie Morag" stories which clearly shows...
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Changing Sounds
Learners identify how the pitch of an instrument can be altered. They complete a worksheet by labeling several images in order of pitch and then fill a bottle with water to create a sound that matches a pitch on a drawn card.
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Changing State
Pupils identify the changing states of water, water vapor and ice in the water cycle They investigate how each of these stages can be reversible. Students complete a worksheet describing the water cycle.
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Conserving Electricity: Turn It Off
Second graders explore causes of air pollution and relate them to energy conservation.
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What Shape Is It?
Students predict the shape of an unknown object by bouncing a ball on it. In this physics lesson, students relate this activity to how dolphins use echo-location to navigate. They analyze their lab result and discuss findings.
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Colors
Students examine what colors are in white and other colors of light. For this light prism lesson students complete a lab activity that helps them understand complimentary colors.
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The Colors on My TV Screen
Students explore how electronic screens use only three colors to produce the colors that people see on the screen. They make and test a color wheel.
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Bouncing Sunlight
Third graders use flashlights and balls to demonstrate how the light bounces off of the sun and reflects onto the moon. They record their observations in a journal.
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Learning Lesson: Moonlight Serenade
Students complete experiments as they act as the earth. They observe how different angles affect the phases of the moon seen by us. They discuss the differences in light and dark.
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Spectrophotometry Lab
Students use a machine called a spectrophotometer to determine how much light is absorbed by certain substances. Students record the absorbance and the % of light transmitted for different color solutions, graph their results, and then...
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Shapes
Students discuss different shapes each day of the week. Students connect shapes they are learning to shapes they see in the real world.
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The Great Hubble
Middle schoolers explain how Hubble telescope captures images from space. In this space science lesson, students use the internet to view space photos. They debate on an issue raised by the teacher.
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Photometry
Students examine blackbody radiation and light wavelengths. Students research the various types of electromagnetic spectrum. Students examine any misconceptions they may have in light.
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Underwater Vision
Students use colored lights and fabric to study an underwater ocean scene. In this light study lesson, students draw a picture using colored markers and hypothesize what their drawing will look like using filters. Students study fabric...
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Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR) Measurements Part 1: Calculating the Solar Constant using a TI-8
Twelfth graders are introduced to the term Photosynthetically Available Radiation. In groups, they participate in an experiment to determine how ecosystems survive the conditions in the Arctic. They calculate the amount of solar energy...
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Mission 2: Electricity
In these electricity worksheets, students learn about electricity, how its used, how it can be changes, and electricity circuits. Students complete an 11 page packet about electricity.
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Value And Perspective
Students investigate the values of light and darkness. They see how they can be mixed in ways to compliment one another. The use of this method is for giving a picture a perspective to be appreciated. They use computer software as an...
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Inside A seed
Students examine the inside of a seed to see the beginnings of a plant. They identify the elements that plants need to grow and survive. They grow their seeds in the classroom.
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Dimmer and Dimmer and Dimmer and Dimmer
Eighth graders model rheostats to see how they work.