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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Create Your Plan to Deal With Frustration

For Students 3rd - 5th
Follow the lead of Thinky Pinky on how to cope with frustrations. Complete the four-step plan with examples from Thinky Pinky to help you keep going when you want to give up!
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Arthur Family Health: Resilience

For Students 2nd - 4th
A learning experience that provides some resources, activities, and videos to help you and your child cope and build resilience after a tragedy or a disaster.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, students must depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a graph in Microsoft Excel. In addition, students will design a...
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TES Global

Tes: Mindfulness Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Mindfulness Activity, students will engage in mini-creative writing tasks. The sheet will simulate each part of the brain as they make lists, draw pictures, and respond to high-interest questions.
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Other

Careers in Business: Nonpofit Careers

For Students 9th - 10th
Business careers don't have to involve high-stress management, financial finagling or marketing a product you don't like. If you'd rather not flog Cheetos; if you're looking for something that's a little more meaningful, then the field...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Sitting Is Bad for You

For Students 9th - 10th
Sitting down for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise. But nowadays, our lifestyles make us sit much more than we move around. Are our bodies built for such a sedentary existence? Murat Dalkilinc...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Team Up!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the physical and psychological effect of stress and tension on human beings. They develop their observing, thinking, writing and teamwork skills by working on a group art project and reporting about it. They learn about...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Riding the Gravity Wave

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write a biographical sketch of an artist or athlete who lives on the edge, riding the gravity wave, to better understand how these artists and athletes work with gravity and manage risk. Note: The literacy activities for the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: It Takes Two to Tangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore the theme of conflict in literature. They learn the difference between internal and external conflict and various types of conflicts, including self against self, self against other, and self against nature or machine....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Big Mo

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Momentum is not only a physical principle; it is a psychological phenomenon. Students learn how the "Big Mo" of the bandwagon effect contributes to the development of fads and manias, and how modern technology and mass media accelerate...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Students design a simple behavioral survey, and learn basic protocol for primary research, survey design and report writing. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Breaking Beams

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn about stress and strain by designing and building beams using polymer clay. They compete to find the best beam strength to beam weight ratio, and learn about the trade-offs engineers make when designing a structure.
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National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Serc: Modeling Glacier Dynamics With Flubber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on activity describes glacier mass balance in a changing climate. Students make a glacier, construct a glacier valley, then run several tests with different values for valley slope, "flubber" temperature, and basal conditions...
PPT
Other

Metamorphic Rocks [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the different ways that metamorphic rocks can form. Looks at high temperature, high pressure, and chemically active fluids. Discusses structures created in metamorphic rocks by different forces and the classifications based on...
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Other

University of Northern Iowa: Study Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of web sites that provide tips to help you study more effectively, manage your time, take better notes, and handle the stresses of school life.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mechanics of Elastic Solids

For Teachers 10th - 12th
After conducting the associated activity, students are introduced to the material behavior of elastic solids. Engineering stress and strain are defined and their importance in designing devices and systems is explained. How engineers...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rock Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Through five lessons, students are introduced to all facets of the rock cycle. Topics include rock and mineral types, material stresses and weathering, geologic time and fossil formation, the Earth's crust and tectonic plates, and soil...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Do String Players Have Longer Left Fingers?

For Students 9th - 10th
Physical activity is needed for maintaining normal bone strength and mass. But whether physical stress on finger bones during development leads to an increase in finger length, is something you will discover in this project not by...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Preconditioning Balloons

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use balloons (a polymer) to explore preconditioning a viscoelastic material behavior that is important to understand when designing biomedical devices. They improve their understanding of preconditioning by measuring the force...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Deformation: Nanocomposite Compression

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn about nanocomposites, compression and strain as they design and program robots that compress materials. Student groups conduct experiments to determine how many LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT motor rotations it takes to compress soft...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore Hooke's law while working in small groups at their lab benches. They collect displacement data for springs with unknown spring constants, k, by adding various masses of known weight. After exploring Hooke's law and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viscoelasticity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concept of viscoelasticity and some of the material behaviors of viscoelastic materials, including strain rate dependence, stress relaxation, creep, hysteresis and preconditioning. Viscoelastic material...
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University of Utah

University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: Epigenetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Videos, interactive activities, and articles explaining the influences that cause parts of the genome to be turned on and off. Learn how nutrition, behavior, stress and other factors determine gene expression.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: You Are There, First Flight

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about archives and primary sources as they research original historical documents. While preparing an imaginative first-person account as if witnessing an historical event, they learn to appreciate the value of the...