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Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion
Young scholars write a proposal for a speech. Students prepare appropriate visuals for use in the proposed speech. Young scholars produce one or more graphs that summarize the results from the experimentation. Students deliver an...
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Car Show
Students race homemade cars. In this physics lesson, students present their cars to judges and then race the cars on the prepared track. Several tips for setting the school gym up to host the event are suggested.
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Final Project Presentations: Water Quality
Students synthesize the information they have been researching on water quality to evaluate the potential health risks in a region with arsenic contamination. They prepare and present a persuasive speech that incorporates visuals.
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Arlington Springs Man: Lesson Plan 1
Learning to craft quality questions is a skill that can be taught. Class members use the Question Formulation Technique to learn how to create and refine both closed-ended and open-ended questions. They then view West of the West's...
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Family Pedigrees
Students work as a class to first construct a pedigree of a popular singer, showcasing the singing gene being passed down through the generations. Students then make their own family pedigree and follow two traits through their family...
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Recycling: Creative Uses for Items
Third graders list creative uses for old objects. In this recycling lesson, 3rd graders work in groups to brainstorm creative, new uses for old, everyday items. This is the first lesson in a unit on recycling.
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Chemical Compounds
In this chemistry instructional activity, students identify 3 different chemical compounds, 3 identify biochemical products, 4 identify terms, and 2 identify atomic symbols.