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Design and Construct A Road Sign Support

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use simple materials to design, build, and test a model of a free-standing structure used to support overhead road signs. Students view a video on the engineering design process and conduct research by observing actual...
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Windmills: Putting Wind Energy to Work

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review engineering design process and discuss how wind can be used to help get work done. They look at a variety of windmills, focusing on different materials used in construction of windmills.
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Penguin Heights

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars use the worksheet from the first website listed below to collect data on the penguin heights on the Penguin Page.
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How Do We Utilize Flash Tools to Improve Research?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete Flash Movies. They identify how to use the Push Button Component in Flash and how to create Scenes. They demonstrate how to use buttons to move within a Flash Movie and finish movies for their Research Projects.
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A Study of Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils study and become familiar with parts of a plant by using multi-media resources. They publish a story about plants using a word processing program and include new plant vocabulary that they have learned.
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Scavenger Hunt Lesson Plan

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students familiarize themselves with the research being conducted on the Ronald H. Brown from San Diego, CA to the Galapagos Islands by completing a scavenger hunt using Mrs. Richards' daily logs.
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Penguin Homes

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the penguin research pages to locate the areas that our penguin species live in. Then have them create simple Venn diagrams to illustrate where penguins live.
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Research Cruise Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students track the research cruise of the Ronald H. Brown from San Diego to the Galapagos Islands. They match research groups with the key words, using the ship's daily logs to find the answers.
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Dinosaur History (Part 3)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners read the scripture that corresponds with this lesson on dinosaurs. Using the text, they try to determine the diet of humans and animals at the beginning of creation. They use the Internet to research animals with sharp teeth...
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Small

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research visual arts by examining a children's book. In this art identification instructional activity, students discuss the history of art after researching information on the Internet. Students read the book Small which...
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WWW, Part1: Hypertext

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore the World Wide Web and its interconnecting threads providing data. The activity was originally written for librarians with little or no net experiences.
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Virtual Lab: Weak Acid and Base Problems

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
You'll feel strongly about this weak acid and base virtual lab! Scholars experiment with the wonders of dissociation constants in a simulated lab environment. The accompanying written work includes buffer preparation, titration curves,...
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Virtual Lab: Temperature and the Solubility of Salts

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Can your scholars solve the mystery of why salts dissolve? A virtual workbench allows them to experiment with temperature and solubility with no solution prep and no post-lab clean up! Users determine the solubility of a variety of...
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Virtual Lab: Acid Dilution Problem

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
There's no risk of injury when working with virtual HCl! Challenge your young chemists with making calculations to create a 3M solution of HCl from the concentrated acid. They first calculate the correct ratios of HCl and water and then...
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Virtual Lab: Gravimetric Determination of Arsenic

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Arsenic in drinking water is a common problem in third world countries. Young chemists create a procedure to calculate the mass percent of arsenic in the soil. The virtual lab allows individuals to experiment with different methods.
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Virtual Lab: Camping Problem II

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
What happens to the enthalpy of a reaction as the concentration of reactants varies? Learners explore this question with a virtual lab activity. They consider five different solutions of the same reactants and monitor the temperature...
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Flip Books!

For Students 3rd - 6th
These aren't exactly worksheets, but rather a selection of pdf files of different atmospheric or solar events. Print your chosen pdf file for each aspiring astronomer in your class, have them cut out the individual mini pages, arrange...
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Number Sense and Numeration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students add and subtract integers. In this algebra lesson, students discuss number sense as they sort numbers in the correct order. They analyze and label numbers differentiating between rational and irrational numbers.
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Life before Humans Roamed the Earth

For Students 4th - 5th
In this sequence worksheet, students read the story, then they place the number, starting with 1 on the lines in the correct order as they happened in the story.
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Short Vowel Sounds

For Students 1st - 2nd
Some vowels make the same sound, like the vowels in grow and both. Read the words on the left hand side of the page (there are six) and match them to a similarly sounding word on the right hand side. 
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A Word Path

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this sorting words worksheet, learners read 30 words in a grid. Learners color red all things found in a cupboard, blue all things found in a castle, and green all things found in a forest.
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Counting

For Students Pre-K - K
In this counting worksheet, learners solve 10 problems in which a number at the left of the row is analyzed. Students then count and color the correct number of circles to match that number. All numbers are from 1 to 10, presented out of...
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Water Cycle And Clouds With Brainpop!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the water cycle and cloud formation. They choose Cloud movie from the drop down menu, watch the movie, and then take the quiz at the end. They choose the Water Cycle movie from the drop down menu and watch the...
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Monster Exchange

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students draw and describe their monster. They exchange papers with another student and recreate the monster based on the other student's description.