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The Magic School Bus Baked in a Cake
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students learn that baking is like a chemistry experiment as they make chemistry happen by following a recipe for pretzels.
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Science Lesson #2
Fourth graders explore and experiment with objects that float to see if they float differently in salt water or fresh water. After the experiment, they write a paragraph in their science journal explaining how fresh water and ocean water...
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Make An Egg Float!
Students analyze density. In this density activity, students experiment with floating an egg. Students discover that salt added to water changes the density of the water allowing an egg to float.
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A Funny Taste
Students participate in a demonstration that illustrates the relative amounts of salt in various bodies of water including the Dead Sea, Sallt Lake, Ocean water and distilled water. They taste and compare various mixtures.
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Sedimentary Rocks
In this sedimentary rocks learning exercise, students conduct an experiment where they observe a shallow dish of water and table salt. Then they determine what causes the salt to leave deposits in the pan. Students also describe...
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Biocomplexity Lab Activity: Creating Salt Water
The lesson seeks to intorduce to students the properties of salt water and how to create salt water. Teacher gives backgound information about salt water to students. From that point, students dscuss what elements are in salt water....
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Smoothing Out the Rough Spots
Fifth graders experiment to observe the changes created on a surface by mechanical action of water with varying amounts of mineral content and abrasive qualities. They write the predictions of their outcomes and describe all of their...
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Potato Lab
In this osmosis instructional activity, students put a strip of potato in three different solutions and document the changes in the potato to determine is the solutions were hypotonic, hypertonic, or isotonic. This instructional activity...
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Ocean Layers
Learners investigate how temperature and salinity causes ocean layering. In this ecology lesson, students observe and sketch their experimental result. They report their findings in class.
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The Floating Golf Ball
Students explore density by floating golf balls. They explore having their golf balls float halfway in a container of water and discuss density and its realtionship to where the golf balls are floating. After adding food coloring, they...
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Ice Cream Blizzards
Fourth graders explore whether the making of homemade ice cream is a physical change or a chemical change in a lab experiment. Students identify states of matter, describe the physical properties of states, and collect temperature data...
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Plasmolysis in Elodea Plant Cells
Young scholars microscopically observe various subcellular components. They determine the effects of different salt solutions on Elodea plant cells. Students explain the major function of a cell membrane and describe its structure.
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Investigating Convection Currents
Students examine how differences in the temperature and salinity of the water help create ocean currents. They perform an experiment which shows how temperature affects the circulation of ocean water.
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Understanding the Ice
Pupils explore the concept of sea ice. In this sea ice lesson, students interview arctic hunters to regarding the sea ice safety and attributes.
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Hatching Brine Shrimp
Students experiment with temperature and salinity to detect favorable environments for hatching brine shrimp eggs. They make some predictions about which environments will yield the most hatched brine shrimp and record the number of...
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Homemade Ice Cream
Students investigate nutrition by creating ice cream in class. In this cooking lesson plan, students define the ingredients in ice cream and discuss how they form together to create a delicious treat. Students utilize salt, ice, milk and...
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Wave Motion
Students observe and identify various waves. In this wave motion lesson, student use a Slinky, noise, people, and musical instruments to create waves and observe how each type of wave moves.
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Science of Money
Students observe oxidation reaction in the lab using copper pennies. In this chemistry lesson, students examine a $1 dollar bill and record their observations. They explain how to identify counterfeit money using the iodine test.
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Observing Brine Shrimp
Students observe brine shrimp eggs, create an appropriate environment for their survival, and observe their growth.
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Chemistry Lab: Solubility Product Constant of Sodium Chloride
In this solubility product constant of sodium chloride worksheet, students gather the equipment needed and follow the procedures to determine the solubility product constant of a solute and demonstrate precipitation of a common ion to a...
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The Tongue...A Sense of Taste
Students explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students consider 4 types of tastes, recognize the papillae or receptors on the tongue, and locate and label the different taste sense organs on the tongue.
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San Ignacio Lagoon: Economy or Ecology
Students debate over the development in the habitat of gray whales. In this role playing lesson, students will take on various roles in a debate over the development of a salt production facility in the San Ignacio Lagoon concerning the...
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Day Two: Generating New Questions
Students investigate buoyancy by participating in a lab experiment. In this density lesson, students utilize vinegar and alcohol in beakers and attempt to float different items in them. Students analyze which items float and do not while...
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The First Farmers
Students show how constant irrigation, with repeated evaporation of water that left salts in the soil, eventually ruined much farming land in southern Mesopotamia. They discuss the idea that with the development of irrigation people...