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Sampling Rocks
Students study rocks they find on the playground. For this investigative lesson students collect and analyze rocks they find and answer questions about them.
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What Do You Know!
Students experiment using a compass for navigation and consider how various instruments affect how we travel.
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Vibrating Objects Produce Sound
Students use many different materials and resources in order to study and identify sounds that are loud or soft, high or low, pleasant or unpleasant.
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Imagination Express
Students create an artistic response to the book, The Polar Express. In this creative writing lesson, students read the book and visualize an imaginary journey they would like to go on. Students create a train car from construction paper...
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Extending Human Ability Through Technology
Students explore how technology has been used to enhance human abilities. Using the internet, they watch a short video about prosthetics. They compare and contrast how prosthetics have changed over the years as technology has become...
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It's Time for a Rhyme
Students listen to the story, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, by Dr. Seuss. They discuss the rhyming in the book and then play a rhyming game.
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Working With Words: Configuration Station (3 or 4 Letter Words)
In this word configuration puzzle learning exercise, learners analyze 12 commonly used Dolch words and fit them into a word configuration puzzle.
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Is that a Fact? Reading the Newspaper
Fourth graders are given a newspaper article. They predict the content based on the title, read and chart fact and opinion statements, and conclude by summarizing the article. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to guide their...
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Shakespeare by Choice
Students identify the most important elements in a scene. In this editing a scene lesson, students decide what elements are absolutely necessary to a scene. Students discuss the main criteria for editing or cutting a scene...
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Reading Comprehension Volume 5, Number 11 : Campaign Finance Reform
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a text about campaign finance reform. Students fill in the missing words with choices from a word bank.
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Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver
In this electronics worksheet, students design and build a stepper motor drive circuit. They answer 1 short answer question about the design.
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The Nervous System
In this online interactive nervous system instructional activity, students respond to 11 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
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Leaf Arrangement: Kinetic Cognitive Connections
High schoolers use critical thinking to identify leaf patterns. For this problem solving activity, student compare leaf patterns by "acting out" the positions and structures they see. This is a kinetic lesson where concepts are attained...
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Don't Say "Said," Say . . .
For this word choice worksheet, students read the various alternatives for the word 'said.' Students then brainstorm alternatives for another over-used word.
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Estimation Using Goldfish Crackers: Math
Second graders explore estimation and rounding concepts using goldfish crackers and a song! They solve problems by estimating and rounding numbers and pick numbers within reason to represent certain objects.
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What Smells?
Students read the poem "Light" together and then discuss how poetry can come from anywhere.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Hearing
What causes sound? How do our ears detect sound? How do our brains recognize sound? In this lesson young scholars investigate hearing and discover that sensory receptors in the ears collect sound information and transmit it to the brain,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Physics of Hearing: Hearing
By the end of this section, you will be able to define hearing, pitch, loudness, timbre, note, tone, phon, ultrasound, and infrasound; compare loudness to frequency and intensity of a sound; and identify structures of the inner ear and...
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Hearing Loss in Children
Thorough overview of hearing loss in children. Includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and much more.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Hearing
To understand how hearing works, Douglas L. Oliver follows a sound on its journey into the ear. [5:17]
NeurOreille
Neur Oreille: Journey Into the World of Hearing: How Do I Hear?
See how the human ear senses a sound, and how that stimulus is transmitted to the brain for interpretation and response.
University of Washington
Our Sense of Hearing Experiment: Locating Sound Sources
Have you ever wondered how your ear works? This website will provide you with knowledge on how to locate sound sources among other ear information.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: How the Five Senses Change With Age
This article discusses the link between anatomical changes related to aging and sensory loss. Delves into the problems associated with each of the five senses.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Sound Bites: Tasting the Texture of Classical Music
Did you know that your sense of hearing can determine texture? This Science Buddies science fair project has you experiment with four major eras in western music to determine the texture of the music. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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