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Indoor Air Quality

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine the role of pollution indoors rather than outdoors. They identify pollutant sources and complete a KWL chart. They also measure pollutant levels and discuss how they can improve air quality.
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Buddhist Art - Lost In The Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore new objectives for art and examine how Chinese painting reflects Buddhist principles. This lesson includes a vocabulary list and possible lesson extensions for various student levels.
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Parallel Studies in American/Afro-American Literature, Part II -- Black and White Images in Alienation

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students begin the lesson with a review of the elements of poetry. Individually, they read a variety of poems and literature one white and one black author focusing on decay, sterility and alienation. They identify these images within...
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Risks and Benefits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research "risk." They complete a guided worksheet to help them find relevant answers. They complete an analysis of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Students determine pros and cons of technology
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Physics: Angular Solution of Hydrogen Atom

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discover the angular solution of hydrogen activity. Depending on the undergraduate course, this activity can illustrate eigenvalue problems, to introduce Shrodinger's equation and particle wave duality, or to introduce...
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Symmetry and Tessellations

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate tessellations and their origins. Students trace triangles to form a tessellation. They measure the angle of equilateral triangles. Students locate the line of symmetry, they create geometric squares,...
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Symmetries of Strip Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars study strip patterns and identify symmetry. They create a paper doll chain. They experiment with different shapes. They determine if their chain is a strip pattern. They create snowflakes with triangles.
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You Can Count on Squares!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in and explore to develop mathematical, specifically algebraic, ideas. Although the tasks are built around measurement, they are algebraic to the extent that they require 'formulae' to be derived form the geometric...
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Pioneers In Space

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the meaning of the word pioneer by using a variety of different activities. They are introduced to some of the pioneers of aviation in Ohio. They use coins and conduct research about some of the persons who accomplished...
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Scientific Images & Animations

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students view a variety of scientific images and animations. They explore the world of science and visual art. Students enrich their knowledge through animation examinations of thoughts and feelings and awesome color rainbows of...
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How Far And How Long Will It Take

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students use a ruler to determine length and then fit the unit to a scale in miles. This unit will also give a geological awareness of altitude and the difference it makes in travel time. The travel time with Mapquest will obviously be...
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Paper Airplane Throw

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice their throwing overhand skill with an emphasis on the cue of "stepping with the opposite foot." The teacher could use activities of focusing on stepping with the opposite foot prior to this one for help of mastering the...
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss the effect of gravity on objects. In groups, they participate in different activities in which they observe the effect of motion on objects and how energy is transferred between objects. To end the instructional...
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Quadratics: vertex form

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice graphing quadratic equations to find the vertex of quadratic functions. They determine if the graph opens upward or downward as well as convert quadratic equations to vertex form from polynomial form. A lab version is...
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Quadratics: Vertex Form

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners practice graphing quadratic equations. They work to solve and equation involving finding the vertex using given formulas. Once their points have been graphed, students determine the direction in which the angle opens. Worksheets...
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Animating Motion

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners apply what they recall about objects in motion by animati ng sequences of pictures that model a set of physical conditions. They animate the orbital motions of the Earth, the space shuttle, and the Moon based on calculations of...
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Angles and Parallel Lines

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders draw parallel and intersecting lines to observe and examine the characteristics of alternate interior angles, vertical angles, corresponding angles, and supplementary angles. Through observation, they discover the...
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Mathematicians of the Month

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders become familiar with the history and times which influenced a featured mathematician each month. Through Internet research, they gather information about a different mathematician each month. Students solve mathematical...
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MT-A141Precalculus

For Students Higher Ed
For this precalculus worksheet, students examine the three problems critically and they find the solutions for the word problems.
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Which Article?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this which articles worksheet, students fill in sentences using a, an, or the. Students answer fourteen fill in the blank sentences within a given paragraph.
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TOEFL Practice Test- Vocabulary #1

For Students Higher Ed
For this language arts worksheet, students practice for the TOEFL test by answering 5 questions. Students read the sentence that has one word surrounded by apostrophes. Students choose the word closest in meaning to this word. Students...
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Comparative Groups

For Students 5th - 6th
For this ESL comparative groups worksheet, students practice conversation skills by discussing the differences between the different groups of thing listed on this page.
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Using a Dictionary-Sounds and Meanings

For Students 4th - 5th
In this dictionary worksheet, students use a dictionary to find answers to five questions. Each question requires students to use either the pronunciation key or the definition.
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Moving Magnetic Filaments Near Sunspots

For Students Higher Ed
In this sunspots worksheet, students observe two images taken by a solar observatory over a certain amount of time. Students determine the changes in the pictures and then calculate how fast and in what direction the particles are...