Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Light Travels

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the learners will be experimenting to show how light shines in a straight line. They will also be experimenting to see how light reflects using mirrors. The students will be working in cooperative learning groups to carry...
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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun and Sun Rent a Car

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A wide range of math skills is incorporated into a lesson that involves planning a family's vacation to Florida. Travel expenses are gathered and compared, graphed, and analyzed in hopes of finding the best prices. There are extension...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Self Propelling Boat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to plan, document, and build a self-propelling boat that can travel a set distance. Students will use common materials to build this boat.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Wind Up Mars Rover

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a Mars rover that can travel using elastic energy. Site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dna Origami Inspired Structure

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using pasta students will design and construct a container that can travel along a zip line to deliver a cargo which is candy. This challenge is explored on this site as well as tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Nanopipe

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this design challenge, students will build walls within a tube so different objects are separated as they travel through the tube. The site contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design...