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Mining - Evaluating Sustainability

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

An overall view of mining, minerals, and their role in our everyday life. This lesson compares the past, present and future of mining and it's relativity to sustaining our way of life.

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Technology Sustainability

Floating Trains: An Exploration of Magnetism and MagLev Trains

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade

This is a lesson plan made to target the fifith grade standard on how noncontact forces impact one another. It can be adapted to grades 5-12. Students will explore magnetism and polarization, research

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Gravitational Forces Magnet Fields MagLev

We Are Water Protectors & Ozobots

Grades: 2nd Grade

This 2nd grade lesson incorporate the book, We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, and Ozobots. Students will discuss the beginning and ending of the story and discuss how characters respond to

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Ozobot Water Literature

Literature and STEM

Grades: 2nd Grade

This lesson uses a children's literature book called Rosie Revere, Engineer. The lesson is designed to support ELA standards along with Math and SEPs. (Science and Engineering Practices) The initial

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Engineering Engineering Design Process Literature

Nanotechnology: Nanoscale

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson on nanotechnology for 4th and 5th graders introduces students to the concept of scale by exploring the incredibly small measurements used in nanotechnology. Through engaging activities

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Scale

Hidden Figures Taking Flight: Airplane Aerodynamics

Grades: 5th Grade

In this lesson, students will explore scientific principles through the literature, Hidden Figures, about four black women who defied the limitations of segregation to become NASA's historic

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Aerodynamics Flight Forces of Flight

Penguin Protectors: Understanding Climate Change, Math, Properties of Water, Conservation of Matter and Teamwork with Penguins

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Most students are likely familiar with popular films like Happy Feet, Surf’s Up, Penguins of Madagascar, and classic books like Mr. Popper's Penguins. Capitalizing on this familiarity with penguins

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Habitats Natural Selection Climate Change

Sheep in a Jeep: Forces and Motion

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Learn about forces and motion while reading the book Sheep in a Jeep and doing activities to determine the average distances of objects in motion.

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Force and Motion Literature Gravity Mean Absolute Deviation

Building a Boat for the Gingerbread Man

Grades: Kindergarten

Students will design and build a boat for the Gingerbread Man using aluminum foil, straws, and popsicle sticks. They will test and improve their designs while learning about buoyancy and basic

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buoyancy Engineering Design Process Literature