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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Estimating and Counting Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The purpose of this lesson from the Illinois Institute of Technology is to review estimating and rounding to the nearest dollar as well as gain skills and practice in counting money. The learners will define the meaning of estimate and...
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Curated OER

Cbc Kids: 10 of the Latest Inventions to Make Life a Little Easier

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about some of the nifty inventions that add more functionality to common objects. With the Smart toothbrush, your teeth will be clean in no time. The Albert Clock forces you to answer a Math question before it tells you the time....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Organism Power Points/ Booklets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson requires students to use technology to research information on any organism from one of the six kingdoms. Students use the information to produce a PowerPoint presentation or booklet to present to their classmates. This...
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The Digital Scoop: Using Skitch in Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 1st
In this article, a teacher explains how she taught kindergarten students to take photographs. They were then shown how to open an iPad app called Skitch and add words to accompany their pictures. This was followed by a Math activity...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wired for Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As part of a unit on electrical circuits, students will work in collaborative groups to create a video of how to construct parallel and series circuits. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Correlation Coefficient Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The correlation coefficient r measures the direction and strength of a linear relationship. Calculating r is pretty complex, so we usually rely on technology for the computations. We focus on understanding what r says about a scatterplot.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Signal Horn

For Students 9th - 10th
Build a signal horn to make low-frequency sounds that can be heard from far away in this STEM lesson. Use this interactive site to document your design process. Included on the site is a video explaining a possible solution to the problem.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Wave Machine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Take the design challenge to make a wave machine with simple materials on this site. Site contains a design challenge and an interactive journal to document the challenge. Find a video with an example of one way to make the wave machine.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Curiosity Machine provides a free, high-interest STEM lessons for students. In this lesson, students will construct a stegosaurus tail that is capable of breaking through a piece of paper. Site includes process and tips to solve design...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenge: Build a Blooming Flower

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you create a blooming flower that would attract pollinators? This Curiosity Machine project challenges students to make this flower using common household items. Site includes a place for students to document their process as well as...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dinosaur Shadow Box

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create a series of shadow boxes to form a complete silhouette of a dinosaur with this challenge. To complete this challenge, students will use everyday materials and this site to document their process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Bubble Switch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Curiosity Machine provides a free, high-interest STEM lessons for students. This challenge asks students to create a bubble maze where bubbles move through several on and off switches. This site includes a place for students to document...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Self Propelling Boat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to plan, document, and build a self-propelling boat that can travel a set distance. Students will use common materials to build this boat.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Mechanical Pegboard

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Are you ready to challenge yourself to make a peg board that lets you test multiple linkage systems and movements? This site contains not only the challenge but a platform to document your process as you solve the problem.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Wind Powered Water Pump

For Students Pre-K - 1st
With this design challenge, students can build a wind-powered turbine that can pump water up from the ground. This site contains tips to complete the design challenge as well as a place for students to document their engineering design...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Buoyant Catamaran

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Could you use plastic bottles, popsicle sticks, and tape to Engineer a catamaran that can hold 15 ounces of cargo without sinking? Use this site for lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer an Air Powered Spinning Machine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Engineer an air-powered spinning machine with this site. Site includes a teachers lesson plan, tips, and a place to document the process of creating this machine.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Root System

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Inspire students to make a root system to help a plant stay put with simple materials like pipe cleaners, string, and marbles. This STEM challenge allows students to not only solve a problem but get tips and document their process all on...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Pneumatic Creature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create a creature that uses air to create motion with this challenge. Site includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Rube Goldberg Machine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build a machine that accomplishes a task in an inefficient way with this Rube Goldberg challenge. Find some tips and a place to document your engineering process on this site.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Pine Cone

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using cardboard, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and strings create a pine cone that opens and closes. This site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Microexpression Zoetrope

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build a zoetrope machine where you can animate a facial expression and the machine plays the animation back with this site. Site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Control a Microraptor's Flight

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using common household materials students are challenged to make a flying raptor and control its flight with attached strings. Site includes lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Mechanical Leg

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This website challenges students to make a ball and socket joint that mimics the movement of a human hip or shoulder. Using only a tennis ball, rubber bands, cardboard, and tape, students will construct this mechanical device. The site...

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