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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Pick This Project!

For Students 6th - 8th
This lab will help you understand the physics of vibrating strings, and find out why the tone of an electric guitar changes when you switch between the different pickups. If playing guitars is a hobby of yours, this experiment makes an...
Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Formatting Science Reports

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site outlines the necessary elements of a scientific report. The site is broken down into the follow segments: title, abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion. Within each section is a contents section as well as a...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Metamorphosis Stories of Change

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even...
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EL Education

El Education: Original Physics Experiments

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students ask questions about why things move the way they do and then design and carry out science experiments on the physics behind the movement. Students create lab reports to explain the steps of their process and to record...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Zombie Autopsies: Publish or Perish, for Real

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent lesson where students are guided in how to write an article for publication in a scientific journal. Includes downloadable lesson and student handout.

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