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Math & Science Connection
Whether you're using a collection of Dr. Seuss books to teach basic math skills like counting, adding, and subtracting, or exploring the different states of matter by melting a crayon with a hairdryer, a series...
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Water: From Neglect to Respect
The goal of this collection of lessons is to make middle schoolers more aware of the ways in which they are dependent upon water to maintain their standard of living. Learners compare water use in Lesotho to water use in the United...
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Vectors
I don't always make vector jokes, but when I do, IJK. Vector addition using multiple methods, scalar multiplication, vector subtraction, vector components, relative velocities, free body diagrams, and so much more Are covered in this...
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Add & Subtract with Hudson River Shipping
In this shipping on the Hudson River worksheet, students record information about types of vessels seen on the Hudson River and respond to the questions that follow about each. Then they identify the Alice Oldendorff which carries road...
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Gardening
For this Boy Scouts worksheet, students complete 6 requirements associated with gardening to receive their merit badge. Students fill out the results of each task they complete on the lines provided for them on the worksheets.
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Mean, Median and Mode
Fourth graders describe weather data using the mean, median and mode. In this mean, median and mode lesson plan, 4th graders understand how to calculate data using mean, median and mode and why they would use each one.
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Measuring Rainfall
Students investigate the amount of rain that falls in their area through the construction and monitoring of a rain gauge. The gauge is observed for one week, recordings are made, and observations described in a chart.
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Measurement via Triangulation
Students utilize triangulation techniques to determine altitudes of objects. An altitude locator is constructed and used to determine the height of a building or a tree. Tangent tables and formulas provide the ratio for the formula to...
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Locating the Salt Front
Learners use Hudson River salinity data to create a line
graph that shows the location of the salt front, and use math
skills to explore how this location varies over time. They use the graph to estimate the location of the salt front...
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Finding the Salt Front
Students discuss definitions of estuary, salinity, and the salt front. They listen as the teacher explains the Hudson River Miles and ways the upriver and downriver sections relate to the north and south. Students graph the salt front...
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Determining Epicenter Distance
In this earthquake worksheet, students determine the distance of the epicenter based on the S-waves and P-waves on a seismograph. This worksheet has 4 problems to solve.
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Hurricane Paths: Comparing Places with Different Prevailing Winds
In this wind worksheet students study a wind rose and graphs for Boston and answer several short answers on prevailing winds.
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Magnus Effect
Students examine the Magnus effect and its history. For this forces lesson students investigate the lift of a rotating cylinder.
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Marvelous Marbles
Learners predict the change in water volume when adding marbles to a graduated cylinder. In this Chemistry lesson plan, students will need to make accurate water measurements to determine the fluid displaced by the marbles. The learners...
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Down by the Bay
Learners listen to teacher read books about fish and participate in activities in order to explore how to identify bluefish. They count and graph the numbers of fish they find in simulated fishing activities.
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The Incredible Journey
Students study salmon and steelhead. They play a game in which they act out the salmon and steelhead journey from their spawning ground, to the open ocean, and then back to the spawning ground again. They identify obstacles these fish...