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Words in the News

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students observe and demonstrate how read and comprehend a short news report. They read an article about AIDS and HIV testing, define key vocabulary terms, and complete a skimming activity. Students then take a quiz and complete a...
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Household Mysterious Chemicals

For Students 6th - 7th
In this household chemicals instructional activity, students fill in 10 blanks with answers about testing household materials. Students must also fill out a data table about what color each material turns when placed in cabbage juice....
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Newton's 2nd Law

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore Newton's second law of motion, testing and identifying the characteristics of objects that makes them easier or harder to push. They identify what types of objects are the hardest to move, then test a variety of...
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Forces in the Sport of Luging

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discuss force, gravity, and friction as well as examples of each based on what they viewed during a Discovery video. They examine first hand the effect of forces by building their own luge track, making predictions, and...
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Acid or Base? Toxie's On The Case!

For Students 5th - 6th
In this chemistry worksheet, students read about the differences between substances that are acids and bases. They read about Litmus dye and the pH scale. They experiment with six household substance by testing them with litmus paper to...
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Mystery Powder Lab

For Students 6th - 8th
In this mystery powder learning exercise, students determine the identify of 6 unknown samples by testing them with cabbage juice for pH, vinegar, iodine for starch and heat. Students determine the identity of the mystery powders using...
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Race the Track! Design Challenge

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students focus on a force and motion problem, explore it, reflect on it and apply it while completing experiments.  In this motion lesson, students experiment with force and motion by creating a track for testing cars.  
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Proteins

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students conduct a variety of experiments to explore protein. In this biology lesson, students solve a mystery by testing for the presence of glucose, protein starch and triglycerides. They explain how DNA transcription and translation...
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Wilderness Survival: A Field Practicum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are provided with hands-on-field testing of authentic applications from principles pertaining to: Psychology A. Develop a positive, can-do attitude with a high degree of self-reliance that is transferable to human interactions...
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Wilderness Survival: A Field Practicum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use hands-on field-testing of authentic application from principles pertaining to: Psychology- A. Develop a positive, can-do attitude with a high degree of self-reliance that is transferable to human interactions outside...
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Maple Syrup

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore maple syrup. In this natural resources lesson, students identify a maple tree in their neighborhood and observe the sap. Students sample maple products and create a graph of the taste-testing results.
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Science Lessons for Grade 8

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify the symptoms and causes of diabetes. For this biology lesson, 8th graders demonstrate how urine testing is used to diagnose illness. They explain why some metals are more reactive than others.
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Atomic Structure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate what is inside three different boxes using indirect observations and relate it to the discovery of the structure of the atom. In this atomic structure lesson plan, students explore the history of atomic structure by...
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Performance-based Assessment for Analog Integrated Circuit Competencies

For Students Higher Ed
In this electronics worksheet, students build a circuit based on schematic diagram and answer 33 problems about it. They make prediction before testing and compare it with the actual value.
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Interaction at a Distance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore magnetism. In this magnetism lesson, students discover the purpose of different magnets. Students perform an experiment by testing the magnetism through different items. Students collect data on the experiment.
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Catering Middle-School Science: Monomers, Polymers, and Macromolecules

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate foods. In this biology lesson plan, students will conduct testing on different types of foods as they learn about different molecules that make them up. Students will also learn about the shapes of the molecules.