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Unit Plan
eSchool Today

E School Today: Energy

For Students 4th - 8th
Explains different kinds of energy, covering kinetic, potential, gravitational, mechanical, sound, thermal, chemical, electrical, and radiant energy. Also looks at storage, transfer, and dissipation of energy. Includes a short...
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Basics on Water Shortage

For Students 4th - 8th
Despite seventy percent of the world's surface being covered with water, there is a potential shortage of this natural resource. Only a small percentage is fresh water and much of that is inaccessible or threatened. Learn about fresh...
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Basics on Forest Preservation

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn about the different kinds of forests, how forests are structured, their importance, deforestation and its impact, forest degradation, and what individuals can do to protect forests.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Air Pollution

For Students 4th - 7th
Looks at air pollution, its causes and impact, common pollutants, and what individuals and governments can do to combat it.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Light Pollution

For Students 4th - 7th
What is light pollution and why should we care about it? Learn what it is, the different types, sources of this type of pollution, the impact it has, and ways to combat it.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Camera Lens Testing

For Students 6th - 8th
This activity helps students learn more about cameras, and how to take better pictures.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Learning Your A, G, C's (And T, Too)

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a project about the "molecular alphabet" of DNA. With just four "letters," it manages to keep track of the plan for an entire person, and keep a complete copy in nearly every cell. This project will help you start learning this...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Wright Stuff: Using Kites to Study Aerodynamics

For Students 6th - 9th
If you are interested in aerodynamics, wait for a windy day and go fly a kite. This Science Buddies project gives you many ideas to investigate as experiment with shape, size, and ways to fly the kite. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Are Antibodies Used for Blood Typing?

For Students 3rd - 7th
The human immune system has various ways of responding to an infection caused by bacteria or viruses. Our bodies produce proteins (antibodies) that are highly specific for the infectious agent as a part of our "humoral" immune response....
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Throwing You Some Curves: Is Red or Blue Longer?

For Students 6th - 8th
This a straightforward, but interesting, project in geometry. It is a good first proof to try on your own. You should be able to figure it out by yourself, and you'll gain insight into a basic property of circles.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Build a Motorboat Powered by Surface Tension

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you look carefully, you could find dozens of similar interesting phenomena that are all linked to the surface tension of water. Here is a project that will help you understand and measure the properties of water surface tension.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Paper Chromatography: Advanced Version 1

For Students 6th - 8th
This project will teach you the basics of analytical chemistry, which is a must for students who want to go into chemistry or materials science. The molecules in objects we see all around us are constantly attracting each other....
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Paper Chromatography: Advanced Version 2

For Students 6th - 8th
Chromatography is a method used to separate mixtures of compounds and to identify each compound in the mixture. You may have separated the different inks in a black marker by using a strip of paper and water. There are many different...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Writing a Simple Calculator Program With Java Script

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a good first-time programming project. You'll learn how to use JavaScript to create a basic calculator program that you can run in your Web browser.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Students will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will read and analyze...
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Article
Youngzine

Youngzine: Week of 11 05 12: An Hour More of Zzzz's..yay!

For Students 3rd - 8th
On Sunday, November 4 at 2 a.m, clocks in U.S were set back by an hour as Daylight Savings came to an end. What is DST? Who first proposed the idea? Is it practiced around the world? Let's take a look in this video. [0:37]
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Time Organizers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of five graphic organizers that help with organizing time.
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Website
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Gullah Net: Gullah Music

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore aspects of African music as reflected in the songs and music of slaves who lived in coastal South Carolina.
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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Counting on Art

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Several lesson plans available for grades K-8 that take a look at math and art. Each instructional activity includes printable resources, glossary of terms, an artist biography, and national math and visual arts standards.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Using Models to Connect to and Understand Volume Formulas

For Students 7th - 8th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The student will use models to develop formulas and connect them to the volume of prisms, spheres, cylinders, pyramids, and cones.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Graphing Data to Demonstrate Relationships

For Students 6th - 7th
Given problem situations, the student will graph data with a constant rate of change to demonstrate relationships in familiar concepts, such as scaling.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Teacher's Corner: Infectious Disease Epidemiology

For Students 6th - 8th
Through a series of lessons, teachers can introduce students to epidemiology. Each lessons includes activities with teacher background information. The lessons can all be taught together or teacher can choose ones most applicable to...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Create a Coral Reef

For Students 3rd - 8th
Detailed instructions, with photographs for every step, for how to build a coral reef diorama.