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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Benjy's Sense of Time

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore iam Faulkner's novel, "The Sound and the Fury" to investigate his use of time and how this quality relates to the novel's form and content. They grapple with questions of perception, history, and chronology through this...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Quality in the Greenhills Stream

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders conduct year long study of water quality over different seasons using variety of probes, including D.O., pH, conductivity and temperature, that are attached to portable technology. Students select three data points in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Quality

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine water quality and how to improve it, how to measure it and how it relates to human activities.  In this water quality lesson students sample water from different sources, and test the samples. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Sound All Around

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how sound waves are effected by frequency and pitch. They conduct experiments using tuning forks, rubber bands, balloons, and water, and answer questions about the experiments.
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Worksheet
Kiz Club

"Q" Sound

For Students K - 1st Standards
Quick! Print this worksheet out so your pupils can master the letter Q. Given four sets of three images, learners circle the image in each set that begins with the letter Q.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The New Haven Oyster Industry and Water Quality

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the different types of water pollutants and how they affect the waterways. In this environmental science lesson, students collect and interpret data from government agencies. They discuss how industrial development in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technology And Our Quality of Life

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders design a product or machine and determine the impact their invention has on a person's quality of life. They present their design and machine with a description of its possible impacts to an audience of peers and adults.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is Sound? How Can We Change Sound?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this lesson, students investigate the phenomenon of sound! Students compare and contrast how sound travels through solids, liquids, and gases. They explain how length and thickness affect sound. Students know the difference between...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sounds Good to Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine density and hardness of wood samples based on several investigations. In this physical science and music instructional activity, students visit four centers and perform tests on wood samples to determine densities and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Music Around the State: Sound and Place

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and interpret the styles and elements of music in three major folk regions of Louisiana within specific traditional music genres. Then they hear the diversity of music in the state and identify the major genres of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transformation of Energy- Sound

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate how sound is made by vibrating matter. They work with a ruler and a rubber band to produce different types of vibration which makes different pitches of sound. They record their observations of the noises made...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sound - Lesson Plan

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders should know how sound is produced and state some properties of sound.
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PBS

Volume and Amplitude | UNC-TV Science

For Students 5th - 12th Standards
Future physicists pump up the volume while discovering the world of sound waves. Group members learn about the qualities of sound waves, the relationship between energy and sound volume, and the definition of amplitude while viewing an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Survival Still

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lead your class to construct a solar still on campus to demonstrate how water can be extracted from the soil. The power of solar energy is emphasized, as is the concept of how capillary water can be recovered and purified by using a...
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App
Peter Nagy

Virtuoso Piano Free 3

For Students 3rd - 8th
This may be as close to playing a piano as it is possible to get without actually having a physical instrument in the class. Learn the names and sounds of keys, play a solo or a duet, and practice scales or any song you'd like–all for free!
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hold Off on the Headphones

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore hearing loss caused by sound waves. In this physical science lesson plan, students will start by learning about waves and wave characteristics and move into sound waves. Students will study how sound effects their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Literal Meaning of Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students demonstrate literal meaning of a fiction book. In this reading comprehension lesson, students listen to the book, If You Give a Mouse a Muffin and practice the "m" sound during the read aloud. Students answer questions about the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Movement Qualities" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine how dance steps can be done with different qualities. students perform their dance movement pattern with their choice of movement qualities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Archeologists For a Day

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to a reading about fossils and go on a hunt for items with fossil characteristics.  In this cross curricular fossil lesson, students will examine their fossil finds and create a graphic organizer.  Students listen to...
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PPT
Curated OER

Jeopardy! The Eight Parts of Speech

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Thrill your class with the daily doubles and increasing points of Jeopardy! Complete with sound effects and visual cues, the game focuses on parts of speech, including nouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Each point square links to a...
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Printables
Curated OER

Poetry Brainstorm

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Looks like? Sounds like? Smells like? Feels like? Tastes like? Sometimes a white, blank, soulless piece of paper can intimidate writers. Provide potential poets with this template that can serve as a parking lot for words and phrases to...
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Lesson Plan
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

The Golden Egg

For Teachers 1st
Get ready for a musical story time! First your young musicians review musical dynamics as they listen to and discuss the pitch and sound of each instrument you play for them. Then they talk about special words (mostly verbs) in the book,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify the different stages in the water cycle. In this environmental science instructional activity, students research about different water pollutants in watershed. They describe ways to purify water.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigation of Timbre

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design an experiment to analyze the timbre of different instruments. For this physics lesson, students analyze the missing quality in sound. They discuss their results in class.