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NEW! Circuits And Electromagnets-A Total Inquiry Investigation
In this special lesson students must complete a series of 4 challenges after being given the objective and a few materials. Your job is stay back and let them figure things out.
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Atomic Model-Change Over Time
Bring history alive with a fascinating look at how the model of the atom has changed over the past 100 years.
Scientists like Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr make huge discoveries that force these changes.
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Circuit Boards
Perhaps the cheapest and most effective way to teach series and parallel circuits. Students build a series and parallel circuit from cardboard, aluminum foil, paper fasteners, and recycled lights.
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Interactive Question Asker
Looking for a cool way to review a chapter and touch back on how circuits work? This lesson does double duty. All you need is file folder, some foil, a battery, light, and some wire.
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Build A Simple Electric Motor
It's true-when you build something yourself you understand it much better because you've seen the parts come together and you see how they interact. As this lesson shows, electric motors are not hard to build or understand. Pick up a couple of rolls of magnetic wire (18-22 gauge) beforehand and have students cut their own 105 cm-long piece before assembling.
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Energy Consumption
See how well students can classify the power consumption of 21 common household items with this handout.
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Newton's Laws and Rocketball
In this lesson students won't have a chance to get scared of Newton's 3 laws. First, they will write a definition of each law in their own words. Then they'll get to observe Newton's 3 Laws of motion cause a ping pong ball to become like a rocket.
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Method Of Heat Transfer Quiz
Is it conduction, convection, or radiation? This 10 question quiz (which doesn't have to be used as a quiz) gives straightforward examples and illustrations that you can also review and teach with.
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Magnetism-Decode Encrypted Statements
Give students this puzzle without any help whatsoever and 2 things will happen- 1. students will learn 5 important things about magnetism, and 2. you will learn which students can rise to a challenge and find a way to get it done and which complain about why it can't be done.
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Forces- Drop Test
Send this handout home with students for them to find out for themselves which drops faster- a heavy or lightweight object. Almost all will be surprised with the results.
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States of Matter
Lessons don't come much easier than this- students observe a burning candle and write observations. Then let their own comments and observations lead them into what a solid and liquid is, and how they might change from one into the other.
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Electricity-Watts, Wire, and What it Costs
In this activity students will compare the Wattages of different devices, learn how to wire a home (on paper, at least), and then calculate the annual cost of several devices around their home.
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Electromagnets-6 Mini Investigations
In this lesson students discover 6 amazing properties of electromagnets with their own hands. They will assemble, disassemble, and make changes to a working electromagnet.
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Interactive Notes-Electricity
In this set of interactive notes students will: 1.move a ping pong ball in an unusual way, 2.light up a fluorescent tube, 3.observe ice on conductors and non-conductors, and 4.light a Christmas tree light bulb.
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Interactive Notes-Magnetism
In this set of interactive notes students observe: 1.a
paper clip quietly defying gravity, 2.some things can and cannot be magnetized, 3.a room full of bar magnets just
"happen" to all turn exactly the same way, and 4.iron filings reveal
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Solids Liquids, & Gases-Build, See, & Compare
Trying to teach the states of matter without anything to aid the imagination doesn't do enough to help students fully understanding how the atoms behave in each state. In this lesson, test tubes and split peas will make it feel like a mini-lab instead of another boring reading day.
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NEW! Chemistry Surprise
A complete lesson that not only hits the foundations of chemistry, but also emphasizes listening and good writing. A great day to be a science teacher.
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NEW! Wheres Newton?
Newtons Principia, written in 1673, explains the movements and attractions of everything in the universe. At its heart are Newtons 3 laws of motion, which we are searching for here.
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NEW! Mixtures
Proof that even the toughest topics to teach can soften with just the right illustration (in this case, chromatography). Good lessons are not supposed to be this cool!
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NEW! Distant Forces
Contact forces are fun enough, but in this lesson we explore 3 non-contact forces which, believe it or not, can move objects without even touching them!
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NEW! Heat Transfer
Bad news if you love to lecture- these 3 simple demonstrations in the hands of your students will teach heat transfer about 100x more effectively than your best talk.
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NEW! Convection Engine
An aluminum pie pan, coat hanger, and candle are all we need to understand convection.
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NEW! Meandering Marbles
A directionless marble ends all confusion about what speed and velocity are.
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NEW! The Great Adventure
Join a molecule of water as it magically experiences an increase in energy, resulting in a change of state. Once there, can we ever get back home?
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Interactive Notes-States Of Matter
In this set of interactive notes students will: 1.produce a gas by combining a solid and liquid, 2.observe a flapping penny powered by hot water, 3.use an ice cube to create cloud 9, and 4.discover Brownian motion using water and food coloring.
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Candlelight Journey Though The 3 States Of Matter
Teaching the states of matter doesn’t have to be
difficult. It can indeed be easy and even pleasant, as this activity
demonstrates.
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Energetic Atoms-Heat 'Em & Speed 'Em
Being told a 50 foot-long trash bag will float if it is filled air and heated by the sun is not that exciting. But take students outside and let them see this for themselves, and you’ve got an amazing lesson!
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Dunking Duckies-Endless Expansion And Contraction
Days like today will remind students why they like
science. And for good reason- the dunking duck is fascinating to
watch and simple to understand.
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Interactive Notes-Forces
In this set of interactive notes students observe: 1.a
ping pong ball become a rocket, 2.a strong-willed penny does
something we've never noticed before, 3.a marble is faced
with the choice of a lifetime, and 4."flippy boards" help us
understand roller coasters better.
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Interactive Notes-Heat Transfer
In this set of interactive notes: 1.an
ice cube helps us understand why cold things are cold and hot things
are hot, 2.the hottest and coldest things in the room demonstrate conduction, 3.a swirling purple stream shows convection, and 4.radiation explains a puzzling question.
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Interactive Notes-Why Is The Sky Blue?
In this special set of
interactive notes: students create a progressively thickening
"atmosphere". At first it's so thin that's it's nearly non-existent
(like the moon's). As it becomes thicker, all light is choked and
has no direct path through (just like Venus). Lesson Notes
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Interactive Notes-Light And Water
In this set of interactive notes students observe that:
1.money disappears, but then 2. it comes back doubled, 3.a pencil loses control of its
lower half, and 4.a top-secret message can only be decoded
with your students help!
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Interactive Notes-Sound
In this set of interactive notes students observe that: 1.a
child's toy illustrates what sound waves look and act like, 2.a piece of foam gives a coat hanger its
voice, 3.a vacuum stifles the ring of a bell,
and 4.the term "pitch" and "frequency" are explained using tuning
forks.
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