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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Electric and Magnetic Personalities of Mr. Maxwell

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are briefly introduced to Maxwell's equations and their significance to phenomena associated with electricity and magnetism. Basic concepts such as current, electricity and field lines are covered and reinforced. Through...
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Other

Ed Web: Homepage

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
EdWeb explores educational reform and information technology. "With EdWeb, you can hunt down on-line educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, examine...
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Other

Ed Web: Homepage

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
EdWeb explores educational reform and information technology. "With EdWeb, you can hunt down on-line educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, examine...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Using Movement and Dance to Explore Symmetry [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
In this lesson, 3rd graders first examine images and decide whether they are symmetrical or not. Next, they create individual symmetrical shapes with their bodies and identify the line of symmetry present during these shapes. They then...
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PBS

Pbs Teacher Line: Professional Development for Educators

For Teachers 9th - 10th
PBS TeacherLine offers a wide range of professional development courses and resources to help teachers acquire the skills they need. Through this site you can explore courses in your area, facilitated discussions with teachers across the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound Line

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn the decibel reading of various noises and why high-level readings damage hearing. Sound types and decibel readings are written on sheets of paper, and students arrange the sounds from the lowest to highest decibel levels....
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Hofstra University

Hofstra University: Calculus Applied to the Real World

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a very nice layout of information relative to Calculus. The page is divided into various topics each containing a quiz over the material, topic summary, review problems, and on line tools to help with the topic. The topics of the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graphing Equations on the Cartesian Plane: Slope

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
The lesson teaches students about an important characteristic of lines: their slopes. Slope can be determined either in graphical or algebraic form. Slope can also be described as positive, negative, zero or undefined. Students get an...
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Other

Harvard University: Project Zero: Artful Thinking

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find engaging ways to integrate visual art and music into regular classroom instruction and strengthen cognitive thinking skills and abilities to reason creatively from multiple perspectives. Get great classroom questioning tips, case...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Measuring G

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit, students construct experiments to measure the time it takes a free falling body to travel a specified distance. Students use the touch sensor, rotational sensor, and the NXT brick to measure the time of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Tug of War Battle Bots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to the concepts of torque, power, friction and gear ratios. Teams modify two robotic LEGO vehicles by changing their gear ratios, wheel sizes, weight and engine power, while staying within a limit of points to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Drawing Magnetic Fields

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use a compass and a permanent magnet to trace the magnetic field lines produced by the magnet. By positioning the compass in enough spots around the magnet, the overall magnet field will be evident from the collection of arrows...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Circuits and Magnetic Fields

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use the same method as in the activity from lesson 2 to explore the magnetism due to electric current instead of a permanent magnet. Students use a compass and circuit to trace the magnetic field lines induced...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Can You Resist This?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This lab demonstrates Ohm's law as students set up simple circuits each composed of a battery, lamp and resistor. Students calculate the current flowing through the circuits they create by solving linear equations. After solving for the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
With the help of simple, teacher-led demonstration activities, students learn the basic concepts of heat transfer by means of conduction, convection, and radiation. Students then apply these concepts as they work in teams to solve two...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pictures Please: Traveling Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students learn that light travels in a straight line from a light source and that ray diagrams help us understand how an image will be created by a lens. In the accompanying activity, students explore the concepts behind...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Linear Regression of Bmd Scanners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students complete an exercise showing logarithmic relationships and examine how to find the linear regression of data that does not seem linear upon initial examination. They relate number of BMD scanners to time.
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Mathematics Archives

Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Arc Length

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the arc length. The site has links to related topics and examples.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center Real World Investigation: Symmetry Around Us [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this internet lesson to explore different types of symmetry in nature. Learners examine line symmetry, rotational symmetry, and bilateral symmetry. An integrated math, language art, and art lesson. Acrobat Reader required.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Button, Button Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated math and language arts instructional activity focusing on statistics. Students explore the concepts of estimation, data collection, data analysis, classification, graphing, and counting through the reading of the Button Box...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Trouble With Topos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn how to identify the major features in a topographical map. They learn that maps come in a variety of forms: city maps, road maps, nautical maps, topographical maps, and many others. Map features reflect the intended use....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graphing the Rainbow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students are introduced to different ways of displaying visual spectra, including colored "barcode" spectra, like those produced by a diffraction grating, and line plots displaying intensity versus color, or wavelength. Students learn...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Crash! Bang!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn about the physical force of linear momentum - movement in a straight line - by investigating collisions. They learn an equation that engineers use to describe momentum. Students also investigate the psychological...