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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Save the Stuffed Animal! Push & Pull

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop an understanding of the concepts of "push" and "pull" as they "save" stuffed animals from danger using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots. After learning more about the concepts through a robot demonstration, students explore...
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Other

Institute of Texan Cultures: Texans One and All

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching guide presents 26 immigrant groups of Texas, along with activities. The groups are organized by the different types of push and pull factors that impacted on their decisions to immigrate, and a section on assimilation is...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: What Makes Things Move?

For Teachers K - 1st
In this activity, young scholars will learn about push and pull forces that make things move. They will also practice using position words to describe location. To learn about forces, they will move objects, observe the movement of...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: May the Forces of Push and Pull Be With You!

For Teachers K - 1st
Read, brainstorm, drag objects, erase to reveal answers, and move weights on a balance scale to learn about forces, mass, gravity, weight, and balance in this activity created by SMART.
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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Push or Pull?

For Teachers K - 1st
This super simple activity for kindergarten-age learners requires no materials and can be done inside or outside, or both and explores forces and motion.
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McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #9 Learning Activity: Nickel Karate

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates the basic theories of inertia. The activity is in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #12 Learning Activity: Bernoulli Cans

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates Bernoulli's principle. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion With Marbles

For Teachers K - 1st
In this guided inquiry activity, students will use 2 marbles of different size and a box to investigate what makes the marbles move and what will cause the marbles to change speed and direction.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Motion

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes what motion is and what causes an object to move. Streamline videos, activities, and assessment are included.
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Other

60 Second Science: Rolling Down Ramps Experiment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore the characteristics of inclined planes while observing how drops of colored water flow down a ramp and on different surfaces.