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Alabama Learning Exchange

What Burns When a Candle Burns? an Introduction to Using the Scientific Method

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use the scientific method to discover the role of a candle's wick and how radiation allows candle wax to change from solid to liquid to gas. They work in small groups to use the steps of the scientific method approach in...
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Curated OER

The Frog Experiment

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Your science class reads a silly story in which a mad scientist makes absurd conclusions about an experiment that he conducted. One at a time, he cuts off a frog's leg and commands it to jump. With three, two, and one leg, the frog...
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Messenger Education

Design Challenge: How to Keep Gelatin from Melting

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The inside of the spacecraft Messenger, which explores Mercury, will experience temperatures from 32 to 91 degrees Fahrenheit. In the final installment of a series of four space-related activities, groups spend time discussing and...
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Virginia Department of Education

Scientific Process and Experimental Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The scientific method keeps you from believing only what you want to believe — it expands your mind. The lesson introduces the eight steps in the scientific process and how to design an experiment to biology scholars. Live insects...
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Introduction to the Scientific Method

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in an experiment and learn to record it using the scientific method.  For this biodegradable plastics lesson, students follow the scientific method to complete an inquiry. Students complete an experiment with a fish...
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Curated OER

Scientific Method Study Guide

For Students 8th - 10th
In this scientific method worksheet, students answer questions about the various steps of the scientific method. They distinguish between the variables in an experiment and between a hypothesis and a theory.
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Curated OER

Dealing with Data in Elementary School

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students follow the scientific method in collecting data.  In this following the scientific method in collecting data instructional activity, students develop a question they would like answered such as how many aluminum cans are...
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Curated OER

Literature and the Scientific Method

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In this scientific method worksheet, students read a poem and describe how the poem illustrates the importance of observation in the scientific method. This worksheet has 3 short answer questions.
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Curated OER

Egg Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the physical properties of eggs. In this scientific observation lesson, students define characteristics of eggs, measure eggs vertically and horizontally, and use the scientific method to perform simple experiments using...
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Curated OER

Snow Goggles And Limiting Sunlight

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students build snow goggles similar to those used by the Inuit people. They create their version of the goggles to improve upon existing designs. Pupils compare the process used to invent snow goggles with that employed by the MESSENGER...
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Curated OER

It's a Matter of Space (cont.)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this science experiment worksheet, young scholars investigate the properties of matter and what happens if two kinds of matter try to take up the same space. Students follow the detailed instructions which take the format of the...
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Curated OER

Student - Designed Density Experiment and Poster

For Students 6th - 8th
In this student-designed experiment worksheet, middle schoolers decide on an experimental problem to solve. Students use the scientific method to perform an experiment and record the data. Middle schoolers calculate the density of liquid...
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Curated OER

OF SUNSETS, SOULS AND SENSES: Science, Scientific Methods, Natural and Supernatural

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the realm and limits of science. Engages students to give examples of topics that can be studied by science, and those that cannot. This also takes a examine descriptive terms, which reflect the true nature of modern...
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Curated OER

USING the SCIENTIFIC METHOD for PROBLEM SOLVING

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars work in teams to map the scientific method as applied in a present day medical situation. Their collaboration of data and findings should lead to a mutual conclusion. Students watch a variety of video's concerning these...
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Curated OER

Environmental Concerns (1) Analysis of Lead in Paint (2) Analysis of Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A scenario and background information are provided for two different open-ended experiments that experienced chemistry classes can perform toward the end of the school year. In the first, they design a method for testing flakes of paint...
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Curated OER

Tornado in a Bottle

For Students 3rd - 7th
Best as an introductory lab, this "tornado in a bottle" experiment has learners trying out various methods of getting water in a bottle to create a "tornado." Using a simplified scientific method, they create a hypothesis before...
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Curated OER

Lesson 5: Designing an Experiment

For Teachers 4th - 6th
The intent of this instructional activity is to introduce young scientists to the steps of the scientific method. To this end, they consider the question, "Which brand of battery lasts longest?" In this case, the experiment is carried...
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Unit Plan
National Institutes of Health

Open Wide and Trek Inside

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Don't underestimate the value of a clean mouth! Here is a six-lesson unit that details everything a youngster needs to know about oral hygiene. It includes lessons on the purpose of a mouth and teeth, the nature of oral bacteria and the...
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Curated OER

What Makes a Seed Breathe Faster?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here's a five-star lesson plan in which inquisitors conduct sophisticated experimentation with cellular respiration in plant seeds. Placing seeds in a closed system they measure the amount carbon dioxide produced and relate it to...
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Curated OER

Regents High School Exam: Living Environment 2008

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Tne New York Regents High School Examinations are comprehensive and include various styles of questions, includingmultiple choice and the analysis of graphs. This particular version, the 2008 Living Environment exam surveys a variety of...
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Curated OER

Regents High School Examination: Living Environment 2007

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Environmental science enthusiasts show what they know at the end of the year by taking this full-fledged final exam. They answer multiple choice, graph interpretation, and essay analysys questions, 73 of them in all. Topics range from...
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Curated OER

Regents High School Examination: Living Environment 2005

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The 2005 version of the Regents High School Examination in the area of ecology is as comprehensive as previous years' exams. It consists of 40 multiple choice questions on everything from the structure of DNA to the interactions within...
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Curated OER

Regents High School Examination: Living Environment 2003

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The living environment, from the interior of a cell to the complex relationships among populations, are queried in this final examination. Learners look at air pollution maps, diagrams of cells, population graphs, and drawing of cells....
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NASA

Soda Straw Rockets

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Three, two, one, blast off to a better understanding of force and motion with this exciting science lesson! Beginning with a discussion about rockets and gravity, young scientists go on to complete a series of worksheets about net forces...

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