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Capturing Renewable Energy
Students watch a video segment on the engineering design process, then design a storage system for renewable energy. Students brainstorm and research ways in which renewable energies such as solar and wind power can be stored.
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Design and Construct a Road Sign Support
Students use simple materials to design, build, and test a model of a free-standing structure used to support overhead road signs.
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Energy Production
Middle schoolers examine the role of energy in our daily lives, and how energy is produced. Students discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each energy resource, and the controversy surrounding the use of nuclear energy.
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Capturing Renewable Energy
Students watch a video segment on the engineering design process, then design a storage system for renewable energy. Students brainstorm and research ways in which renewable energies such as solar and wind power can be stored.
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Radiation: To Worry or Not to Worry
Students distinguish safe forms of radiation from those that are dangerous. Students watch a video about sources of radiation encountered every day. Students estimate their own annual radiation exposure.
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Igniting Chemistry in Fireworks
Students watch a video segment and read text about the color of fireworks. Students watch a video segment and do an interactive activity on the mechanics of a firework.
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Shapes that Make Structures Strong
Students construct a variety of forms, test their strength, and discuss how tension and compression are distributed by triangles, arches, and domes.
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Electric Circuits
Students model the flow of electrons in a circuit, draw diagrams of an electric circuit and build an electric circuit. Students explain how to tell when the path of an electric circuit is complete, and test the conductivity of a variety...
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Design and Construct a Road Sign Support
Students use simple materials to design, build and test a model of a free standing structure used to support overhead road signs.
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Tension and Compression
Young scholars explore the forces of tension and compression by manipulating a variety of objects, and apply what they learned in the construction of a model bridge.
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Sound Vibrations
Students examine how vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear. Students experience vibrations using several of their senses.
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Substances And Chemical Reactions
Students watch and predict chemical reactions when different substances are mixed together. They differentiate between solid, liquid, and gas.
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SOUND VIBRATIONS
Student designs a test that uses their sense of hearing to judge the effectiveness of different solids to transmit sound vibrations. Students experience vibrations using several of their senses.
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PLANT LIFE CYCLES
Student learns about the life cycle of plants by watching a time-lapse video. This activity provides students with further evidence that all living things grow and change as they progress through their life cycle.
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Living vs. Nonliving
Learners explore the characteristics that distinguish living things from nonliving things. Students examine video clips and still photographs to gather evidence and develop criteria to decide if something is living or nonliving.
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Introduction to Architectural Philosophies
Young scholars familiarize themselves with some of the competing philosophies underlying architecture. They explore structures as a form of artistic expression as well as a practical undertaking.
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CREATING A CLASSROOM HOLIDAY
Learners invents a holiday for their classroom, including name, customs, songs, foods, and other defining characteristics based on the research they have conducted and the discussion in Lesson Three.
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Family Fitness
Students visit sites that contain information about a variety of health and fitness activities. They analyze the activities according to several criteria, and describe how their particular activity choices can contribute to a healthy...
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Climate and Weather
Students become familiar with weather terminology and different representations of data as they explore various on-line weather sites. They practice using and interpreting data determining the effects of the time of day, time of year and...
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Collecting and Recording Data# O
Students observe plants growing over time, measure specific plant growth, and gather and record data on plan growth.
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Collaboration the Internet
Students work collaboratively, via the Internet, with another class/school/country, to share and analyze data. They nteract with another class to construct a reasonable explanation for the evidence they have gathered.
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Classroom Heart Rates
Students check and record heart-rates of other classmates. They compare and design questions to explain the differences in their findings. Possible explanations might include: the effects of culture, lifestyles, age and gender on heart...
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Discussion of Adaptation
Students discuss ways in which dinosaurs adapted to their environments. They apply the same logic to an analysis of human habitat, survival needs, and survival need fulfillment to explain how people have adapted to their environment.
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Visiting Museums
Learners visit museums and gather information about dinosaur habitats, survival needs, and how they met these needs.