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Estimating Concrete Volume
Students identify rectangular volume calculations, and calculate using formula, concrete table, and calculator.
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Concrete Research
Students explore concrete. In this physical science and computer research lesson, students work in groups to answer specific questions about concrete. Each group of students completes a different worksheet with a specific subtopic....
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Prototype Production
Young scholars create a product out of concrete. In this concrete lesson plan, students also demonstrate safety when using the tools provided.
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Making Concrete and Safety Instructions
Students demonstrate using tools correctly in order to make concrete. In this concrete lesson plan, students brainstorm on how to use waste to make concrete and take a safety exam.
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Making a Miniature Concrete Girder
For this concrete girder worksheet, students use water, sand, cement and gravel to construct concrete girders. Students vary the proportions of the mixtures and label each concrete girder with the mixture's components.
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Integrating Technology Into the Curriculum
Students identify and apply appropriate number keys (1-10) for each booklet page, Students match the appropriate number of pictures to correspond to each picture. Students use the computer program KidPix to create a number booklet for...
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Language of Poetry
Students demonstrate a higher level of thinking in writing a poem that delivers a message of wisdom and is metaphorical in meaning. They study the use of metaphors in poetry as well as the meaning and use of concrete and abstract words...
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Determining the Proper Cement: Water Ratio for Quality Concrete
Pupils examine concrete samples and guess their strength. They determine the correlation between concrete strength and the cement to water ratio that was used in making each sample. They make a quality concrete based on their findings.
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Wikipedia: Gravel
This Wikipedia encyclopedia article shows how gravel is mined and used in building and paving.
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Wikipedia: Cement
Wikipedia provides this encyclopedia entry for cement that features its history, production, and use as a building material, as well as links to related topics.
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Wikipedia: Concrete
Wikipedia provides an encyclopedia entry about concrete that features pictures, diagrams, history and other information, as well as links to related topics.