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Technological Twins

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students list comparisons between technology and nature. Then they create superheroes with special animal characteristics and describe how ordinary persons might replicate the changes with technology.
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WS 1.0 Math Skills Update

For Students 9th - 12th
In this math skills worksheet, students solve a variety of basic math problems such as solving for "x" in different types of equations, manipulating algebraic expressions, converting from ordinary notation to scientific notation and...
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WindWise Education

Where Do You Put a Wind Farm?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
This is not your ordinary farm! Using a case study, small groups study two proposed locations for a wind farm. After researching all the information about the sites, the groups choose a site. Each team member writes up the proposal...
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University of Colorado

Spacecraft Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Space shuttles traveled around Earth at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour, way faster than trains, planes, or automobiles travel! In the 13th installment of 22, groups graph different speeds to show how quickly spacecraft move through...
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Space Awareness

Meet Our Home: Earth

For Students 1st - 6th
Earth is a complex structure. Learners explore their home, the earth, using a fun hands-on activity. They create tactile models of the earth using ordinary household materials that represent some common features: land, polar caps,...
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Using a Statistical Procedure To Search A Database For Out of the Ordinary Values

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Pupils develop a spreadsheet containing formulas and find summaries for them.  In this investigative lesson plan students choose a topic, investigate it and use MS Excel to sort data. 
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WS 1.0 Math Skills Update

For Students 10th - 12th
In this math skills activity, students find percentages, they convert from ordinary notation to scientific notation, they convert from scientific notation to ordinary notation and they manipulate algebraic expressions.
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Scientific Notation

For Students 8th - 12th
In this scientific notation learning exercise, learners express numbers given in ordinary notation in scientific notation and numbers given in scientific notation in ordinary notation. They also perform simple operations of numbers in...
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The Way Levers Work

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the rules by which the lever slants and balances. They determine that there are a great many tools that employ the lever principle even in their ordinary environments. They consider how to use objects easily...
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The Use of Myths in Science

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are told stories, myths and legend to explain their world. After telling the tales and discussion them, students are assigned to write a myth that describes a familiar situation, such as why the school garbage cans are always...
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Making a Compass

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science worksheet, students create a temporary magnet out of an ordinary pin. Students read an explanation of the process and examine an illustration.
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Scientific Notation #2

For Students 8th - 10th
In this scientific notation learning exercise, students round numbers to the nearest .01, they express numbers in scientific notation and they express numbers given in scientific notation in ordinary notation. They also perform simple...
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What is Scientific Notation?

For Students 8th - 10th
In this scientific notation worksheet, students read about scientific notation and practice converting numbers from ordinary notation to scientific notation.
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What's Your Genus? Scientific Classification and the VT

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students understand the definition of binomial nomenclature. In this binomial nomenclature lesson, students classify ordinary animals by seeking their scientific names. Students participate in a knowledge hunt using binomial nomenclature.
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Here It Comes, There It Goes!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils use an ordinary toy to reveal the Doppler effect. The connection is also made to moving cars, and to the shifting of the lines in the absorption or emission spectrum when the distance between a star and Earth is increasing or...
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More About Water Below the Ground

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine groundwater and its relationship to springs, artesian wells, ordinary wells, and sinkholes. They describe the process by which sinkholes are formed. They investigate saltwater contamination and its causes.
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Ecology-Minded Garbage Plants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete recycling activities to learn how ordinary garbage can create a living organism. In this recycling lesson, students take a combination of seeds from used fruits. Students water and grow the plants from the recycled seeds.
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Scientific Notation Practice

For Students 10th - 12th
For this scientific notation practice worksheet, students convert numbers from standard notation to scientific notation, from scientific notation to standard notation, they add, subtract, multiply and divide and determine significant...
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University of Minnesota

Sheep Brain Dissection

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Bored with frog and earthworm dissections? Had your fill of fetal pigs? Anatomy young scholars will be intrigued by the sheep's brain, and you will be prepared with guiding questions, extension activities, and pictures as they dissect...
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Erosion: Changing the Face of Earth

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore how the landscape of the planet can be changed by different elements of wind, water, ice and chemicals through hands-on activities. They examine pictures of areas around town and discuss anything they think is out...
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Discover the World of Machines

For Teachers K
Students participate in a project which incorporates science with reading, writing, social studies, and technology. Through several activities over a 15 day period, they explore the computer, digital camera, computer software programs...
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Practice With Significant Figures

For Students 10th - 12th
In this significant figures worksheet, students are given one hundred and two numbers and they must determine the number of significant figures in each. They are given numbers in ordinary notation as well as scientific notation.
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Liquid Assets: Watershed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students watch videos and create a representation of their watershed. In this water resources and pollution lesson, students watch three short videos and discuss them. They use ordinary objects to create a model of their watershed.
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Scientific Notation Worksheet

For Students 7th - 12th
In this scientific numbers worksheet, students express the given numbers in standard scientific notation. This worksheet has 15 problems to solve.

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