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Activity Seven -- Picturing Particles (Student Page) A LAB Worksheet

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This worksheet lists background information for a lab on the topics of atom smashers, accelerators or colliders. It clearly states the Rules of the Game -- science laws that apply. Student do the lab and track their results in the given...
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Significant Figures and Scientific Notation

For Students 9th - 12th
In this significant figure worksheet, learners identify significant figures. They convert numbers from standard notation to scientific notation. This one-page worksheet contains 14 problems. Answers are included at the bottom of the...
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Energy in the Home

For Students 8th - 10th
In this energy use worksheet, learners read about kilowatts and solve 2 problems. They find the costs to run certain electrical items for a given amount of time and they determine the electricity consumption of an accelerator that runs...
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In Search of Cosmic Rays

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare rates to altitude. They conduct a class discussion about the results.
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The Outer Planets

For Students 6th - 12th
Are outer planets just like inner planets? Nope! The outer planets are much more spread apart than the inner planets. An informative PowerPoint presentation shows why this is true as well as facts about the individual planets in the...
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Refraction and Lenses

For Students 7th - 12th
In this lenses worksheet, students will review refraction through lenses by reading pairs of statements and circling the correct ones. Then students will read 9 statements and indicate if the statement is referring to a concave lens,...
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Acceleration and You

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss and view examples of acceleration. They work together to determine acceleration rates in two ways. They analyze their data and discuss.
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The Dymaxion Car

For Students 5th - 8th
In this motion worksheet, students read about the invention of the Dymaxion car that was designed to achieve high speeds. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on the reading.
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Locomotion, Time And Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice the concepts of time and rhythm using drum beats. They also create body shapes using verbal cues. The shapes made include stretched, curled, angular, or twisted. The rhythm of beats is increased or decreased to...
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In the Rain Shadow

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students charts the rainfall averages on either side of a mountain range. In this water cycle lesson, students discover that mountain ranges affect weather patterns. Students pretend they are air traffic controllers and must...
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Lights-Camera-Action

For Teachers 1st
First graders increase their reading fluency through rereading selected text. After reading a grade level appropriate text multiple times, they complete a fluency and reading expression drill with the instructor. Students complete a...
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Measuring Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an accelerometer and take measurements of acceleration in a moving car. They study the car speeding up in a straight line, slowing in a straight line and curving at constant speed. They prepare a lab report showing...
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Motions and Forces

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils explore motions, forces and magnetism. They investigate magnetism as a force and examine the construction of a magnet. Students examine the force that magnetism produces.
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Safe Driving

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the implications of teen driving. For this personal health lesson, students research and discuss impaired driving, seat belt usage, speeding, and distracted driving. High schoolers then create public awareness...
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Shadowing a Musher For Nine Days

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders follow and record the progress of a musher on the Iditarod race. They access the official Iditarod website, determine the musher's overall speed, the daily average temperature and daily hours of sunlight, and develop a...
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Pendulum Activity

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders conduct a lab activity that measures the factors that change the swing rate of a pendulum. They create a hypothesis and test it during the experiment. They record their observations using the recording sheets and journal...
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Weather Conditions During the Fall Monarch Migration

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students keep detailed weather records during the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. They compare weather conditions to the days they do and do not see monarchs. As a class, they graph and analyze data and send it to a university...
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Weather Conditions During the Spring Monarch Migration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students keep detailed weather records during the spring migration of the monarch butterfly. To keep track of the weather, students utilyze weather reports and instuments such as anemometers, compasses, thermometers and rain gauges.
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Dance Production

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students go through the experience of creating a dance. They use the correct vocabulary when creating the dance in writing. Students choreograph the steps needed to perform the dance in sequence. Then they perform the dance for final...
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Wonderful, Wild Weather

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners study the different types of weather, how it affect what they wear, and how it is related to the seasons. They compare the seasons and tell how they prepare for the change in seasons. They design a creative presentation about...
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A Guide (on the Side) to Physics

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts related to the study of Physics. They participate in class discussion and list common misconceptions of Physics. Students write and discuss the problem of Science illiteracy.
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Forces and Movement

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine types of forces and movements. They identify different causes that can affect movement and speed. They create their own predictions about they believe to be the outcome of an experiment.
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The Math Reaction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the reaction time to figure out problems. They use the following example to get them started with reaction time: the edge of a ruler is placed near a person's thumb and index finger and, without warning, the ruler is...
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Where's My Bot?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars estimate geographic position based on speed and air travel.  In GPS lesson students use GPS to estimate the set and drift of currents. 

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