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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Identification of Variables

For Students 6th - 8th
An explanation of how dependent and independent variables are used during experimentation.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Independent/dependent Variables: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the difference between independent and dependent variables. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Independent/Dependent Variables."
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Independent/dependent Variables: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the difference between independent and dependent variables. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Independent/Dependent Variables."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Control and Variable Groups: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the difference between a control group and variable groups, when using the scientific method. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Control and Variable Groups."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Control and Variable Groups: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the difference between a control group and variable groups, when using the scientific method. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Control and Variable Groups."
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Control and Variable Groups: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the difference between a control group and variable groups, when using the scientific method. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Control and Variable Groups."
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Catapults: Controlled Investigations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this structured inquiry, students will investigate a catapult system. Having previously explored and identified the variables of the catapult system (length of lever, mass of shot, angle of catapult), students will conduct controlled...
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Control Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from an industrial control course taught at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. The course teaches basic characteristics of feedback control systems, frequency-response analysis, and...
Graphic
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Independent/dependent Variables: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the difference between independent and dependent variables. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Independent/Dependent Variables."
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Storing Data in Variables

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how computer programs instruct computers how to process data.
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Storing Strings in Variables

For Students 9th - 10th
When we're making a program, we often want to store sequences of letters. In programming lingo, we call each letter a character and we call the sequence a string.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Scientific Method

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describe how the Renaissance period in history changed the approach to science. Identify the steps of the scientific method. Differentiate between the independent...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mint Mobiles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design, build and test model race cars made from simple materials (lifesaver-shaped candies, plastic drinking straws, Popsicle sticks, index cards, tape) as a way to explore independent, dependent and control variables. They...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Scientific Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Experiments, experimental variables, and experimental controls are discussed.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Students as Scientists

For Teachers 6th - 9th
This curricular unit contains two lessons that let students actually do the work of scientists as they design their own experiments to answer questions they generate. In the first lesson and its associated activity, students conduct a...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Science Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the scientific experimental design.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Designing a Reaction Rate Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will design, conduct, and report the outcome of an experiment in which they investigate some factor that affects the rate of reaction between baking soda and vinegar. The dynamic nature of the reaction, coupled...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Force and Motion Investigation

For Teachers 3rd
Conduct an investigation collaboratively on the effect of force applied on an object to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence, by using fair tests in which variables are controlled and the number of trials are considered.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Inquiry: How Herbs Change Based on Growing Conditions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, learners will develop writing, math, and inquiry skills by investigating the taste of basil. Students will test basil in different growing conditions while also comparing it to a controlled variable. Learners will then...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Calculating the Effect of Mass, Length and Displacement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics lab activity young scholars investigate how mass, length and angular displacement affect the period of a simple pendulum. Students control variables, testing one variable at a time, using manual techniques (stopwatch,...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Obi Wan Adobe: Engineering for Strength

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students conduct an experiment to determine how varying the composition of a construction material affects its strength. They make several adobe bricks with differing percentages of sand, soil, fibrous material and water. They test the...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Gears: Determining Angular Velocity

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work as engineers and learn to conduct controlled experiments by changing one experimental variable at a time to study its effect on the experiment outcome. Specifically, they conduct experiments to determine the angular...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wide World of Gears

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In an interactive and game-like manner, students learn about the mechanical advantage that is offered by gears. By virtue of the activity's mechatronics presentation, students learn to study a mechanical system as a dynamic system under...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viscosity: The Flow of Milk

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the physical properties of different fluids and investigate the relationship between the viscosities of liquid and how fast they flow through a confined area. Student groups conduct a brief experiment in which they...

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