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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Predicting the Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a good way to get yourself on TV. This science fair project will help you learn how to predict the weather. So who knows, maybe you'll be more accurate than your local meteorologist.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Making Predictions and Critical Judgments (Table/verbal)

For Students 9th - 10th
Given verbal descriptions and tables that represent problem situations, the student will make predictions for real-world problems.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Making Predictions Worksheets and Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about making predictions in reading. Worksheets and a leson are provided to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using the Prediction Strategy to Set Purposes for Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for three lessons that teach a reading comprehension technique called the prediction strategy, where students predict what will happen in a story before reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Predict the Flow

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a common modeling compound, students form a "volcano" and examine its topography to predict which way lava will flow down its slopes.
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Other

Paleofuture: The History of the Future: 42 Amazing High Tech Predictions From the 1950s and '60S

For Students 9th - 10th
It's the 21st century, but sometimes it feels like our futuristic dreams are stuck in the 1950s and 60s. And there's actually a good reason for that. The period between 1958 and 1963 might be described as a Golden Age of American...
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 6th - 8th
Given data in table form, the student will use the data table to interpret solutions to problems.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Which Team Batting Statistic Predicts Run Production Best?

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a sports science project that shows you how to use correlation analysis to choose the best batting statistic for predicting run-scoring ability. You'll learn how to use a spreadsheet to measure correlations between two variables.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Real Difference Between Hypothesis and Prediction

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what a prediction and a hypothesis are in statistics and how they differ. Includes examples demonstrating the differences.
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Clackamas Community College

Clackamas Community College: Predicting Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th
Using Lewis diagrams for predicting the formulas of compounds, with links to examples and practice problems.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Predicting, Finding, and Justifying Solutions to Problems

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Given application problems, the student will use appropriate tables, graphs, and algebraic equations to find and justify solutions to problems.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Active Reading Strategies Part 2: Rephrase and Predict

For Students 9th - 10th
A powerful reading strategy designed to encourage you to trust yourself while working through the SAT Reading Test. If you know what you want before you start looking, you are a LOT less likely to make a bad choice..
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Types of Chemical Reactions and Predicting Products

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The guided inquiry activity enables students to identify the five basic types of reactions - synthesis or composition, decomposition, combustion, single replacement and double replacement. Students will also begin to predict the products...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Where Will Your Home Be in a Million Years?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use the global velocities map to predict where their home will be in a million years.
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Revision Notes on Clouds

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn all about clouds, how they form, the different types, and how they can be used to predict the weather.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Drought

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module looks at droughts. It examines their characteristics and distribution, how they are measured, their causes, how they can be predicted, and their frequency in Africa. Includes handouts, maps, activities, and videos.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Hazards and Risk Management: Tropical Storms

For Students 11th - 12th
This learning module looks at tropical storms. It explains the characteristics of a tropical storm, how they form, how they are predicted, and their frequency. Includes student tasks, graphs, videos, and an interactive animation of...
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Other

Met Office: Science: Creating Forecasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Modern weather forecasting applies scientific knowledge to predict future atmospheric conditions across the globe from observations of the current state, made from land; at sea; in the air, and from space. Take a look at how scientists...
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Read Works

Read Works: Bridge to Terabithia 5th Grade Unit

For Teachers 5th Standards
A Grade 5 literature study unit for the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. The concepts covered include cause and effect, character, genre, plot, predicting, and theme.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Crystal Ball Math: Predicting Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
In this environmental science fair project, students will learn some of the ways in which the population growth of animals is modeled, and then use the logistic model to determine how a population grows when it starts far below, at, or...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using a Predictable Text to Teach High Frequency Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using "Have You Seen My Cat?" students will learn to recognize high-frequency words. There are supplementary materials provided, as well as several links to useful websites.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Exploring Ocean Data Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find "oceans of data" for students of all ages. NCTM, California, and Philadelphia standards are listed for each grade level along with lesson plans and other website resources.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Literary Elements in Jan Brett's the Mitten

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will analyze such literary elements as plot, cause-effect relationships, sequence, and prediction in Jan Brett's The Mitten. Students will enjoy predicting upcoming story events and retelling the story from a dialogue that shows...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: You Decide: Roanoke the Lost Colony

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by Roanoke The Lost Colony, An Unsolved Mystery From History, students will learn and discuss this mysterious part of American history. Doing their own detective work they will make predictions and come to a conclusion regarding...

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