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Fracking: Positive or Negative Impact?

7th - 12th Standards
Your teenagers may have heard of fracking, but do they really know what it is? And could they debate the benefits and risks? Educate your environmental science class with a activity about hydraulic fracturing, non-renewable energy...
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Independent and Dependent Variables

8th Standards
Investigate the relationship between independent and dependent variables. Individuals begin by identifying independent and dependent variables from different problem situations. Then, using specific guidelines, they create posters...
Worksheet
Crafty Classroom

Guided Scientific Method

2nd - 4th
Guide learners through an experiment with a set of worksheets on the scientific method. Six steps prompt your class to ask questions, conduct research, form a hypothesis, test theories, analyze data, and report results.
Worksheet
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Freshman Project-Part 6-Final Written Report

7th - 10th
In this project worksheet, students complete a formal write up of their experiments. This includes a rationale, a purpose, a hypothesis, their experimental design, materials, procedure, data tables with variables, graphs and a concluding...
Activity
It's About Time

Sounds in Strings

7th - 12th Standards
How many of your pupils play an instrument? A musical science lesson will help all of them understand how string instruments work. Young scientists construct a string-and-pulley system to test frequency and pitch. The lesson...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Design Project: Simple component curve-tracer circuit

4th - 12th
In this circuit worksheet students complete a series of short answer questions on using a tracer circuit.  There are answers with this worksheet. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigating the Effect of Minerals on Plant Growth

9th - 12th
How do different minerals affect the growth of plants? Budding botanists find out in a multi-week experiment that has them using solutions with specific mineral deficiencies. While there is a lot of preparation for the investigation,...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Experimental Design Reference

9th - 12th
In this experimental design worksheet, students are given a full comprehensive outline for designing an experiment. There are checklists included for each section of the experiment for students to use as a guide for properly completing...
Lesson Plan
Center Science Education

Investigating the Climate

9th - 12th
What do graphs of atmospheric gases over time show us? Do they indicate that carbon sources and carbon sinks are not in balance? Up-and-coming meteorologists watch video clips, read information, and analyze data from the HIPPO...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Unit VI: Worksheet 3 - Force, Velocity, Displacement

9th - 12th
Those who take this challenge will draw force diagrams and then calculate velocities and displacement. The problems are applicable to any general physics curriculum that covers motion. Add this to your collection of homework...
Assessment
Achieve

Dairy Barn

7th - 10th Standards
Agriculture is truly a math-based profession! Help the dairy farmer determine the supplies needed to complete his barn. Using given dimensions, learners build equations and use units to determine the correct amount of materials.