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Evaluating Sensors and the Impacts of Physiological Stress: Designing a Wearable Device for Rescue Workers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A long-term project has scholars consider ways in which sensors help monitor physiological stress levels of rescue workers. They design and create a portable device for this purpose. Techies to the rescue!
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University of Minnesota

Altered Reality

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Fascinate young life scientists by showing them how their brain learns. By using prism goggles while attempting to toss bean bags at a target, lab partners change their outlook on the world around them, producing amusing results....
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Statistics Education Web

You Will Soon Analyze Categorical Data (Classifying Fortune Cookie Fortunes)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Would you rely on a fortune cookie for advice? The lesson first requires future statisticians to categorize 100 fortune cookie fortunes into four types: prophecy, advice, wisdom, and misc. The lesson goes on to have learners use...
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Curated OER

Shells: An Investigation

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students observe shells using their five senses. In this scientific inquiry instructional activity, students examine shells using a hand lens and their five senses. Students complete an included shell data sheet.
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Curated OER

Touch and Discover

For Teachers K - 4th
Students identify the physical properties of items using the sense of touch. In this touch and discover lesson, students describe items.  Students sort items using a Venn diagram.
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Curated OER

Oobleck

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore "matter." In this literacy and three states of matter lesson, students listen to Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss, then work in groups to explore "oobleck" (cornstarch and water mixture) with their five senses....
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Curated OER

Start at the Very Beginning

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore ocean ecosystems. In this cross curriculum art and oceans lesson, students create a collage featuring three-finger algae using sand paper, tissue paper, and construction paper.
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Curated OER

School Life Today and in the Past at Freyberger School

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare and contrast school life today with that of Pennsylvania in the 1900's. In this school life lesson students create a description of a typical one-room schoolhouse. They think critically about attending school in a...
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Curated OER

Five Senses

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "My Five Senses." They work together to classify fifteen objects by the sense that they affect. They discuss the sense organs and complete a chart. Finally, they sort mystery items from a bag which the teacher...
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Curated OER

More or Less Pigs in the Pen

For Teachers K
Students practice simple addition and subtraction. They identify relationships among whole numbers.
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Curated OER

Graph and Compare the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners 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. Learners plot the local weather vs. another city. Students record...
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Curated OER

Sense of Taste and the Tongue

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils taste different foods and record their reaction to each one. They record their likes, dislikes, and favorites and create a graph. Then they use the graph to compare the tastes of the class.
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Curated OER

"The Patchwork Quilt" by Valerie Flournoy pictures by Jerry Pinkney

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize squares and find a pattern for counting squares.
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Curated OER

Introduction To Calculus

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is about an introduction to the course of calculus. They practice some of the basic concepts and solve some problems applying different principals of calculus. The teacher uses the sample problems...
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Curated OER

Estimation With Whole Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this elementary math worksheet, students find the answers to the 10 problems written in the multiple choice format in order to develop critical thinking skills.
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Curated OER

When Trees Are Red, Color in Remote Sensing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Student learn about "chromatography" in a hands-on experiment. Students make a chart showing what the colors represent.
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Curated OER

Come To Your Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Write narratives that include ideas, observations, or memories of an event or experience, and be sure to use concrete sensory details! Groups utilize a few of the famous I Spy books in order to create narratives that utilize sensory...
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Curated OER

Human Fingerprints: No Two The Same

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners will be offered numerous opportunities to further enhance their observational skills as well as the integration of math with their continual exposure to the metric system, measurement, and graphing to represent their data....
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Curated OER

Making Sense of the Census

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars problem solve the mean and median of agricultural data by completing a worksheet. They discuss the results of the statistical data.
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Desert Discoveries

Nocturnal Navigators

For Teachers 3rd
Young biologists take a look at some of the unique ways that nocturnal animals survive in the dark. After reading a terrific student handout which is embedded in the plan, learners work together to answer questions about what they have...
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Curated OER

Mystery of the Senses-Touch

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students test the skin's range of sensitivity. Students complete a "Touch Areas" activity. They discuss their results with the class. Students make conclusions about which parts of the body are most sensitive to touch.
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Curated OER

Number and Number Relations: Lesson 2

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders recognize or compute decimal equivalents of fractions. They recognize or compute the percent equivalent of decimal fractions. They relate fraction, decimal, and percent equivalents and recognize decimal equivalents.
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Curated OER

Senses -- The Touching Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners practice making educated guesses about objects in their hands. They guess what the object is without looking at it and choose a word that describes it. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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Curated OER

50 State Quarter Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners, using their knowledge of place value and number sense, play this counting game in small groups, or as a whole class, to see who be the first person to reach 50 cents.

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