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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hurricanes: New Tools for Predicting

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW features new advances in predicting the intensity of hurricanes. [5:49]
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Genome British Columbia

Genome British Columbia: Predictive Genetic Screening

For Students 9th - 10th
The purpose of predictive genetic screening is to learn whether an individual is at high risk of developing a heredity condition that may run in the family. This article shows you how to weigh the benefits and disadvantages of having...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Collecting Data and Making Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given an experimental situation, the student will write linear functions that provide a reasonable fit to data to estimate the solutions and make predictions.
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Predicting the Future

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an informational text about the predictions of a futurist and answer questions on comprehension, text support, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Legendary Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil Predicts an Extended Winter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The famous rodent from Pennsylvania was pulled from Gobbler's Knob on February 2, 2017 to decide the fate of winter. Find out what he predicted.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:using Theoretical and Experimental Probability to Make Predictions

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given an event to simulate, the student will use theoretical probabilities and experimental results to make predictions and decisions.
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Probability and Discrete Math: Predicting the Future

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on probability theory for predicting the outcome of flipping a coin, and then flipping it multiple times.
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BBC

Bbc News: Strange Predictions for the Future From 1930

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes some fantastic predictions made in the 1930s for what technology might bring in the future, for example, the creation of a sea in the Sahara Desert and the widespread ownership of personal airplanes. (Published 26 December 2014)
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Predicting Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on predicting chemical reactions using The Group 1 elements in the Periodic Table are known as the alkali metals. They include lithium, sodium and potassium, which all react vigorously with air and water. It provides...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Using Models to Make Predictions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the interaction between greenhouse gases, solar radiation, and the Earth's surface and oceans for the impact on global warming. By altering variables, they can project what reduction in greenhouses gases is needed in...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Predicting, Finding, and Justifying Data From Verbal Descriptions

For Students 6th - 8th
Given data in a verbal description, the student will use equations and tables to solve and interpret solutions to problems.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: K Act. 04: Shared Reading: Wishy Washy Day

For Teachers K
This two-day lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Joy Cowley's Wishy-Washy Day and Audrey Wood's book, King Bidgood's in the Bathtub. Students will participate in making predictions, sequencing, and...
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Other

Old Wives' Tales Won't Predict the Sex of Your Baby

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses old wives' tales that deal with predicting the sex of an unborn baby. Learn about the origins of these myths and whether any of them are partially true.
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NOAA

Noaa: Storm Prediction Center: The Online Tornado Faq

For Students 9th - 10th
What questions do you have about tornadoes? This site addresses, among other things, common safety misconceptions and historic tornadoes, damage facts, and tornado research.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for two lessons about circular stories like those of Laura Joffe Numeroff, who is known for the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Students read stories with circular plots as models before composing their own. In...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Predicting, Finding, and Justifying Data From a Graph

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Given data in the form of a graph, the student will use the graph to interpret solutions to problems.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is the Pulgar?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This is a instructional activity for students in grades 4-6 to learn visualization, prediction, and sequencing.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Earthquakes

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module looks at earthquakes. It discusses areas of earthquake activity, how they are measured using the Richter scale, and how scientists try to predict earthquakes. Includes handouts, slideshows, activities, and videos.
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Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Earthquake Country

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on all aspects of earthquakes. Inquiry-based exploration of earthquakes includes measuring seismic waves, predicting earthquakes, investigating magnitude and intensity, mapping fault lines, and evaluating...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Froggy Forecasting: How Frog Health Predicts Pond Health

For Students 6th - 8th
Have you ever heard the expression "a canary in a coal mine"? In the 1900s and earlier, coal miners brought canaries with them into the mines to act as early warning signals. The canaries were very sensitive to low levels of dangerous...
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Buck Institute

Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: What Will They Think?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graphing and making predictions go hand in hand during this real-world example of project-based learning.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Can You Speed Up Mixing?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate mixtures and how they are formed, and then predict which factors increase the rate of mixing a sugar cube in water.
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Other

New Mexico State University: Chemical Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
A one page tutorial which teaches the viewer how to predict and write equilibrium expressions and use them to calculate equilibrium concentrations. Discusses Le Chatelier's Principle.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Cognitive Strategies Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article describes eight cognitive strategies - including monitoring, tapping prior knowledge, and making predictions - to help readers develop their comprehension skills.

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