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Sounds Like Science: Jamboree
Students create a jamboree using the science concepts learned in the other "Sounds Like Science" activities. Great for a music and science team.
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Bottle Habitat
Students create and observe an aquatic habitat. After recording observation students graph the changes.
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Fingerprinting: A Lesson on Classification
Who done it? Basic lesson plan to classify fingerprints. Students can classify their own and classmates fingerprints by taking prints and comparing them to the handout provided.
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Newton's Apple: Rain Forest Animals
Several activities to incorporate into your Rain Forest unit. This site does not focus only on animals.
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Twin Cities Public Television: Antarctica I
After learning why scientists go to Antarctica, students plan and go on an expedition of an "unexplored" territory themselves. Planning guide for the expedition is included.
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Michigan Reach Out: Antarctica Ii
This site provides basic reasons for Antarctica's importance to our planet. Young scholars can create their own treaty of governance for Antarctica.
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Michigan Reach Out!: Digging the Earth's Crust
Lesson plans from Michigan Reach Out! to help students understand the different soil types and what uses they would be good for.
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Michigan Reach Out!: How to Read a Thermometer
Basic lesson provided for by "Michigan Reach Out!" for students learning to read a thermometer.
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Nasa Teacher's Resource Center: Balloon Staging
Activity to show student how rockets reach high altitudes.
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Nasa Trc: Flying Wing
In this lesson plan students can make a flying wing and trouble-shoot until the wing glides smoothly.
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Nasa Trc: Liquid Bottle Rocket
This hands-on experiment has students launch a plastic pop bottle into "space!"
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Reach Out!: Making Paper Airplane Gliders
Students learn the fundamentals of aerodynamics in this hands-on exercise.
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Nasa Trc: Maple Seed Helicopters
Students study the aerodynamic properties of a maple seed and then apply what they observe making their own flying object.
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Nasa Trc: Match Stick Rocket
In this online lesson plan students can experience Newton's Laws of Motion in relation to rockets with this experiment.
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Reach Out Michigan: Ping Pong Ball Curves
This is an experiment that will allow observation on how friction will make a ping pong ball curve when it is thrown into the air.
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Sewer Science
Learn where wastewater goes and where drinking water comes from. Students can then make a model sedimentation tank to observe how sludge and effluent are separated.
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Reach Out: What Is an Insect
A thorough lesson plan site that explores the definition and characteristics of an insect. Contains several informative links. Suggests a number of hands on activities.
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Guess What! A Lesson About Atoms
A lesson plan outlining a very simple way to introduce students to how the structure of the atom was determined. Uses a mystery box with surprise items inside.
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Michigan Reach Out: Genetics: You Are Unique
For this lesson plan, students learn basic genetics by identifying their inherited traits.
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Reach Out Michigan: Have You Ever Met a Tree
This lesson plan has students identify trees, perform bark rubbings and sketches, collect leaves, and then introduce a tree to their classmates.
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Michigan Reach Out!: Making a Shoe Box Guitar
This site provides an experiment where students create a guitar to discover what variables will change sound.
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Nasa: Paper Rockets
Basic experiment allowing students to discover what gives a rocket stability.
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Nasa: Rocket Activity: Rocket Pinwheel
This site provides directions for a basic activity that allows students to explore Newton's Third Law of Motion.
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Sounds Like Science: Bottle Organ
In this lesson plan students are able to manipulate sound to arrange a musical scale. Can be used by both science and music teachers.