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Come Fly With Me

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students apply the Bernoulli Principle. In this flight lesson, students design and test a glider.
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Aerodynamics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discover the basic principles of aerodynamics, including the roles and identity of natural forces involved. They examine how the force of gravity is overcome by the curved shape of an airplane wing and air pressure.
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From Future Flight to Past Flight

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students complete a set of CD-ROM's to introduce them to the flight program at NASA. In groups, they research a topic related to flight and put their information on a CD-ROM. To end the lesson, they share their material with other...
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To Spread or Not to Spread

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the difference between the three types of contrails. In this contrails lesson, students make observations of contrails and record them. Students identify the three types of contrails and complete an experiment activity.
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Sounds Like Science - Drums

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars see that understanding how sound is produced makes it possible for us to manipulate it so we can decrease the number of unpleasant sounds we encounter. They make a drum to explore the concepts of force, pitch and volume.
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Sounds Like Science: Drums

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the science of sound. In this sound lesson plan, students craft drums from various materials and respond to questions regarding pitch, force, and volume.
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A Model of Earth's Atmosphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make a model of the four layers of Earth's atmosphere that represents the characteristics of each layer.
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One Plus One Makes New

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the properties of matter and how they change when composite materials are produced.  In this informative lesson students write up a question and procedure to an experiment then analyze and draw conclusions based on the...
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Now You See It, Now You Don't

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine their eye's blind spot. In this biology lesson plan, students explain what causes this visual deficiency. They give real life applications of this concept.
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Flight 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are introduced to two of the four principles of flight: drag and thrust. As the class watches a video on these principles, they utilize ballons, straws and clothepins to simulate what they're seeing in the show. Nice,...
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What's the Connection Between Convection and Inversion?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders observe a simulation demonstrating the difference between convection and inversion. They explain where and when convection and inversion layers occur and how each impacts air quality, and by connection, human health.
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Weightlessness

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars use a coffee cup to demonstrate weightlessness. After a lecture/demo, students read an article on free-fall. They perform a simple experiment which helps them explain the concept of weightlessness.
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The Sky and the Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students use a dichotomous key to distinguish between different types of clouds
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Fronts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders define cold and warm fronts, explain how they are formed and they ways that they affect the weather.
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Thunderstorms

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the attraction between two different charges to explain the concept of lightning in a thunderstorm.
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Air Terms: The Flash Card Game

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders define vocabulary words regarding air quality. In small groups, they match magazine pictures or create illustrations for definitions and terms, and share the flash cards with their group.
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Cold Fronts And Warm Fronts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students simulate the movement of cold and warm fronts as they listen to a story about the weather and Mr. Sun. They brainstorm the characteristics of each type of front then write about which front they would prefer if they were a...
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Proportionality: The X-Plane Generation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars meet NASA researchers who describe the relationship between force, energy and motion. They discuss how NASA's experimental X-plane is being tested to make space travel more reliable and show how proportionality and ratios...
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Principles of Flight

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the principles of flight. In this flight lesson, students construct a model plane and investigate the forces acting on the flier. They will measure the thrust and calculate the stored energy.
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The Reason for the Seasons; Science, Geography

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students think about what causes the seasons to change, reflect on what they know about seasons and how their lives affected by seasonal changes.
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Who Wants to Be a Thrillionaire?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the investments undertaken by the "thrillionaire" Paul G. Allen, and propose future areas of high-tech scientific investment for Mr. Allen to pursue.
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From Pirates to Pilots to Spies

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders enjoy this introduction to the world of map projections, globes, aerial photographs, and satellite images. This lesson instructs students on the advantages and disadvantages of each earthly representation.
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Weightlessness

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students predict the behavior of coffee in a cup while it is dropped during a demonstration. They relate their observations to the weightless conditions that astronauts experience in space and discuss the concept of free-fall.

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