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Curated OER

Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students complete activities to investigate natural disasters and the impact on animals. In this natural disaster and animal safety lesson, students discuss the importance of safety procedures. Students use a map of their school and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Eye Safety

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders become aware of the need for eye safety in the classroom through three mini labs.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Safety With Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils investigate and become aware of when a dog is about to bite. For this safety and dogs lesson, students discuss dog bites and when they occur. Pupils complete a related worksheet and create a bulletin board about when dogs may bite.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fire Safety Circle Spelling Activity

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fire safety spelling worksheet, students circle the correct spelling of a set of 15 fire safety words, choosing from 4 spellings. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fire Safety Secret Decoder

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fire safety activity, students use a letter decoder key to determine 15 fire safety related words. A reference web site is included for additional activities. 
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fire Safety Sentence Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fire safety worksheet, students read words about fire safety in a left column, then use each word in a sentence in the right column. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Safety Gear and Helmets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain how helmets protect the head from injury. In this physics lesson, students design their own helmets after considering certain parameters. They present their design in class.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Lab Safety Word Search

For Students 10th - 12th
In this science instructional activity, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to lab safety. There are 21 words/phrases located in the puzzle to find.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fire Safety Cursive Practice

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this fire safety cursive worksheet, students practice writing 3 words: adapt, burn and candles. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Teach Engineering

Above-Ground Storage Tanks in the Houston Ship Channel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Introduce your class to storage tank failures caused by major storms with an activity that looks at how the concepts of Archimedes' Principle and Pascal's Law affect the storage tanks along the Houston Ship Channel. The background...
Lesson Plan
Forest Foundation

Exploring Heat & Energy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
How does fire keep itself going? Explore the ways that heat uses fuel and energy with a instructional activity about the fire triangle and combustion. Several activities demonstrate how heat moves from warmer objects to cooler objects,...
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Lesson Five: The Earth, Rocks and Minerals

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Apply the principles of geology to a series of collaborative, hands-on class activities. Young earth scientists learn more about igneous, metamorphic, and sedentary rocks before classifying and weathering rocks that they find....
Lesson Plan
Santa Monica College

Mole Ratios and Reaction Stoichiometry

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Stoichiometry sounds complicated, but it really means the study of the amount of substances involved in a reaction. The sixth lesson in an 11-part series has scholars use stoichiometry to find the theoretical yield of a reaction. Then,...
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Beyond Benign

Urine Jeopardy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Urine can tell us a lot about what is happening in our bodies. In a hands-on activity, scholars administer pH, glucose, ketone, and protein tests to a sample of "urine" solution made from household ingredients. Their results lead them to...
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Nuffield Foundation

Following Gene Transfer by Conjugation in Bacteria

For Teachers 9th - 12th
After the lab, you'll be able to solve this analogy: Natural selection is to vertical transfer of genes as ___ is to the horizontal transfer of genes. Young biologists conduct an experiment on E. coli bacteria to explore the process of...
PPT
Biology Junction

Strawberry DNA

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Humans eat around 93,205 miles of DNA in an average meal. Scholars learn how to extract DNA from a strawberry using a presentation. It walks through each step and explains why the process works. Comprehension questions encourage...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Candlemaking

For Teachers 5th Standards
There might not be a butcher or baker, but you'll have a class full of candlestick makers after a hands-on lesson about candles make from beeswax. After a brief history of where beeswax comes from, young artisans craft their own...
Lab Resource
Pingry School

The Alchemist's Dream – Copper into "Gold"

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Many scientists attempted alchemy for hundreds of years before a full understanding of metals became clear. Scholars take a penny and, through two different chemical reactions, make it appear to turn into silver and later gold. They...
Lab Resource
Pingry School

Determination of Molar Mass by Boiling Point Elevation

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Francis Raoult discovered the change in boiling points of solutions varies by the number of particles in the solution. Scholars apply the concept to determine the molality of a solution based on the change in boiling point. They use an...
Lab Resource
Pingry School

Determination of the Correct Stoichiometry of a Single Replacement Reaction

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Many young scientists don't realize iron exists in two different forms in nature. During an enlightening experiment, they react iron with copper sulfate to cause a single replacement reaction. Then, they determine the correct...
App
Weather Bug

WeatherBug

For Students 1st - 12th
Exploring the weather has never been more intriguing! Whether you are looking for a quick glance at the 10-day forecast, trying to figure out if lightning is heading your way, or wondering what the pollen count is, you will find out...
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Curated OER

The Thermite Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Searching for a way to take your chemistry class to the next level? Provide pupils with an exciting and educational experiment demonstrating the thermite reaction! The mixture of aluminum powder and iron oxide allows young chemists to...
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WindWise Education

How Does a Windmill Work?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Can my windmill pick up a weight? Given the same set of materials, groups design and build the most efficient windmill. On the first day, groups concentrate on getting a windmill to spin, while on the second day, they modify their...
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Chymist

Empirical Formula of a Compound

For Students 9th - 12th
Because of the work of John Dalton, we are able to write formulas for compounds. The hands-on experiment has scholars prepare a compound from its elements. Using mass data, individuals write the empirical formula for the compound.

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