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Fun with Math using Magnetic Force

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore and discuss the effectiveness of magnets in different situations. For this math lesson, 6th graders discuss rate and graphs after exploring with magnets using different restrictions on the magnets. They analyze...
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What Can Data Tell Us?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze data they have collected themselves and by their classmates. In groups, they create data distributions to identify the highest, lowest and middle values. As a class, they discuss the concept of sample size and how it can...
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Humidity and Air Saturation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students experiment with air saturation. In this earth science lesson, students first complete an activity which teaches humidity. Then they use the scientific method to create their own experiments to test how long it takes a 2-liter...
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Design Team Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students work in groups to build a robot. In this robotics lesson, students create an electronic robot and program it to follow directions. They create an obstacle course for the robot to follow and test its performance. 
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Finding the Average Temperature

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students calculate averages. In this average temperature instructional activity, students collect data and use their problem solving skills to calculate average temperatures.
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FLIGHT FAIR

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars conduct their personal investigations into paper airplane flight. Cooperative teams are formed, with students choosing the paper airplane design that they are most interested in building.
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Virus and Bacteriophage

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the differences between a virus and a bacteriophage. They explore various websites, identify the parts of a virus and a bacteriophage, and construct a model of a virus or bacteriophage.
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The Solution to Pollution is Dilution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider what happens to herbicides or insecticides that are used in agricultural practices, especially herbicides that are used to control noxious weeds. They become acquaint with a chemical assessment method known as...
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Graphing Data - Temperature

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders measure and record temperature over a given time period. They compare the recorded temperatures to the 40-year recorded normal average temperatures for the same area. Students display and interpret their findings in a graph.
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Graph and Compare the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils explore the concept graphing data. In this graphing data lesson, students use weather data from their local weather and some other city and graph them. Pupils plot the local weather vs. another city. Students record temperature...
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Testing Weather Proverbs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners study weather proverbs. In this weather lesson plan, students list weather proverbs and complete the worksheet to test the proverb. Learners design an experiment to test the weather proverbs and conduct the experiments.
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Historical Temperatures

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars research historical regional temperatures for their current season. In this historical weather lesson, students conduct weather station and Internet research to learn about historical regional temperatures. Young scholars...
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Water You Can Use from the Air Conditioner

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students work together to research water quantity, quality and safety standards. They complete a lab to discover how to use the water from an air conditioner. They write a paper to show their findings.
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Sampling Rocks

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine sampling by investigating rocks found in the schoolyard.  In this sampling rocks lesson students collect and analyze a sample of rocks.
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America's Pastime

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students relate Newton's Laws of Motion to the game of baseball. They compare and contrast the materials used in baseballs that could affect their performance. They also determine how friction can be increased or decreased in a ballpark.
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Probability: The Study of Chance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment, determine if a game is fair, and collect data. They interpret data, then display line graph. They conduct analysis of game for probability.
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How Many Animals?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use their math skills to develop estimates for the population of several animal species native to the Austrailian rainforest. It is a simulation that researchers at the Center for Rainforest Studies in Australia perform to...
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Mapping River Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils research different statistics to do with the Mississippi River. They answer questions about finding data and collect it by conducting research. The research is used to construct a data table. Then students use the table to perform...
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Flying High in Math

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study how real airplanes fly and then they construct models of paper airplanes using design resources for the Internet and their own design. They use meaurement and caluculations in order to help them construct their...

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