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Advanced Paragraph Correction #9

For Students 6th - 7th
For this advanced paragraph correction worksheet, students read a text about urban planning. Students correct the errors in 8 sentences by selecting the right answer from 5 possible choices.
Lesson Plan
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Find the Tallest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a variety of local resources to find pictures and information about the tallest structures in your town during four different periods. By comparing pictures, students gather information about a town's values, major...
Lesson Plan
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Cooking Kansas City

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate the history of Kansas City and then create recipes from the area, including Kansas City Barbecue Sauce, and Kansas City Corn.
Lesson Plan
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Rocking the Boat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students work together to discover the concepts of stability and equilibrium. They examine how equilibrium is related to an item's center of mass. They create their own action scene in a literacy activity.
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Swinging on a String

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore how pendulums work and why they are useful in everyday applications. In a hands-on activity, they experiment with string length, pendulum weight and angle of release.
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TE Activity: Build Your Own Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students inquire into how the center of mass is the key factor in designing cars. They construct an oddly shaped object and determine its center of mass. They find that engineers are able to predict how objects will behave while they are...
Lesson Plan
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The Day The Earth Shook

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore structural engineering through three design challenges. They examine information about some architectural features that work and those that don't during an earthquake. Students build and test their structure and record...
Lesson Plan
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Paint the States - 50 & D.C.

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students select and research a state as an individual project and present their findings to the class. Then, they write a one page paper and create a collage or painting of their state on a mural. Finally, students create and illustrate...
Handout
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New York City: ESL Read Aloud

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this ESL read aloud worksheet, students read a short text about the city of New York City. There are no questions to answer on this page.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Max's Math Adventures

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math riddle worksheet, students read through the rhyming math poem about the 'Card Castle Addition.' Students list all the ways they can come up with 14 using two numbers. Students then solve the final number sentence problems...
Lesson Plan
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Shelter/Refuge

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students research shelters and places of refuge for animals and humans. For this shelters lesson, students read paragraphs about animal and human shelters. Students complete an activity about beavers and shelters. Students then complete...
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Skyscraper Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Skyscraper Museum is dedicated to the tallest buildings in the world, most of which are in New York City, the museum's home. Learn about both how and why skyscrapers reach greater and greater heights.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Building Big: Skyscrapers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Information about the basics of skyscrapers, with profiles of nine big-building wonders. Extras include a loads lab, which illustrates how and why skyscrapers stand up and keep standing up, and interviews with builders, engineers, and...
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Other

Skyscraper Museum: Building the Empire State

For Students 9th - 10th
For 40 years, from 1931 to 1971, the Empire State Building held the title of world's tallest building. This site, from the Skyscraper Museum, tells the story of the building's construction. Includes wonderful historical photographs of...
Interactive
Other

Skyscraper Museum: Downtown New York Web Walk

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A virtual walk through New York City and the endless skyscrapers.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Will There Ever Be a Mile High Skyscraper?

For Students 9th - 10th
Stefan Al explains how mile-high skyscraper megastructures became fixtures of our city skylines.
Interactive
Columbia University

Columbia Univeristy: Architecture of New York City: Birth of the Skyscraper

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how and why skyscrapers were first built, and why they became a major symbol of New York City. This highly interactive site includes video lectures on the development and importance of skyscrapers, a timeline of commercial...
Graphic
Boston College

Boston College:20th Century Architecture: Skyscrapers 1925 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
This skyscraper page features a large selection of thumbnail images to enlarge, with architect, title, location, date, and height.
Graphic
Boston College

Boston College: 19th Century Skyscrapers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has many images of skyscrapers from the 19th Century made possible by steel technology.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Building Big: The Skyscraper Challenge

For Students 3rd - 8th
A site for all users interested in the engineering behind the building. Site engages users in a job that requires them to investigate troubled buildings and then figure out how to fix them.
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Other

Skyscraper Museum: Big Buildings

For Students 9th - 10th
A site devoted to exploring big buildings. Big Buildings are more than just tall, they are also wide from left to right and from front to back. Many of the world's most famous buildings are on view at this site, which includes photos and...
Graphic
Other

Skyscraper Museum: World's Tallest Towers (1890 2004)

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphical timeline that showcases all the buildings in the world that, at one time, held the title of world's tallest building during the time span from 1890-2004. Includes close-up illustrations of each building and numerous facts...
Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Skyscraper Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," investigate hypothetical structural emergencies and figure out how to repair them.
Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build an Edible Skyscraper

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you create a bioglue that allows you to build the tallest skyscraper out of graham crackers? This website contains tips, lesson plan, a place for you to document your engineering design process.

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