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The Mysterious Hexagon on Saturn!
In this Saturn learning exercise, students use a photograph of a hexagon feature on Saturn to solve three problems. These include finding the time it takes for the jet stream to complete one circuit around the hexagon, to find the size...
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Three Clouds Activity
Students explore how clouds are produced through three different age-appropriate hands-on experiments.
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Around the World
Students explore ways people from around the world are like them. They discuss how geography affects the way people live and work and how culture affects a person's day to day life. Students give a presentation over a chosen country to...
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Wonderful, Wild Weather
Students study the different types of weather, how it affect what they wear, and how it is related to the seasons. They compare the seasons and tell how they prepare for the change in seasons. They design a creative presentation about...
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Science: Avalanche!
Eighth graders examine avalanches after reading excerpts from John Muir's book, "The Yosemite." In small groups, they conduct experiments with flour, sugar, and potato flakes representing different snow consistencies. Then, 8th graders...
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Keep Your Eye on the Sky
Students examine the different types of satellites, cloud formations and weather patterns. In this weather lesson students use the Internet to research weather satellites, then write an article and create graphs.
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SkyHighScrapers
Students investigate quadratic functions. In this Algebra I/Algebra II lesson, students determine the equation of a quadratic function that closely matches a set of points. Students investigate the necessary information that would...
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The Science of Weather: How Doppler Radar reads weather
Students read about how radar detects changes in the weather. In this instructional activity on weather reporting, students read a diagram that shows how radar reads weather. This instructional activity includes discussion questions and...
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Naval Battles in the Age of Sail
Pupils compare and contrast British and American/Allied naval losses during the American Revolution. They recognize factors affecting the outcome of a naval battle and describe a naval battle from the age of sail.
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The Couplet
Students create the sounds of a thunderstorm with a symphony of body percussion to compose a couplet about rain using Microsoft word to publish. They are introduced to rhyming dictionaries and thesauruses and use Internet sources for...
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Sailing Through Bernoulli
Students participate in a class discussion about Bernoulli's principle while looking at cross-sections of an airplane wing, and discussing the sail on a sailboat and the spoiler on a race car.
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Avalanche!
Middle schoolers explain that when forces on an object are balanced, the motion of object does not change. They describe how an object changes its motion when forces on it are unbalanced. They plan and conduct a scientific investigation...
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Traffic Sign Matching
In this matching worksheet, students match pictures of traffic signs to the written description. There are twenty-nine different signs and descriptions for students to match.