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      • Thumb image for Getting the Lightbulb to Light UpResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Getting the Lightbulb to Light Up

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development
        This activity is a lab where the students try to make a lightbulb light up using two wires, a battery and a lightbulb.
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Chemical Reactions: Was the blood at the scene the "real McCoy"?

        Grades: TK/K to 9
        Subjects: Professional Development
        This activity provides students with the opportunity to gather data from a controlled experiment setting, interpret their findin...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Investigating Polymers: Comparing Two Liquid Glue Based Polymers

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development
        In this fun hands-on activity, students will create two different polymers, similar to Flubber and Silly Putty, using Elmers glu...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Who Wants To Live Here? Water Sampling At Our Local Pond and Stream

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Science, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Physics
        This activity is a field activity where students will perform various water quality tests to determine the types of organisms th...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Iron in my cereal

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies
        This activity is a hands on activity where students will gather information on their findings about iron in different cereals. T...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Atoms and Molecules

        Grades: 6 to 9
        Subjects: Professional Development, Atomic Structure, Physics
        Both of these lessons are classroom activities that require students to build models that display understanding of atoms and mol...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Egg Experiments

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Properties of Matter, Professional Development, Solution Chemistry
        These are activities where students explore chemical reactions, as well as the effects of concentrated solutions.
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Investigating Precipitation: Snow

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development
        This activity combines field and classroom investigations about snowflakes to develop a testable question.
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Water Quality

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Science, Physics, Earth's Resources
        This is a field investigation in which students test water quality in 2-3 areas using their own testable question.
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Combustion/Pollution

        Grades: TK/K to 9
        Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources
        Students observe a burning candle and the byproducts given off through the burning process. This observation leads to a discussi...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Changes in Gas Volume/Gas Laws

        Grades: 6 to 9
        Subjects: Professional Development, Science, Chemistry, Gases and Kinetic Theory
        This activity is a hands-on activity to help students learn the behavior of gas particles.
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Does It All Add Up?

        Grades: 9 to 12
        Subjects: Professional Development
        This lab introduces basic chemistry concepts in molecular interactions, measurements, prediction, and critical thinking.
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        The Lifestyle Project at the University of Redlands

        Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Current Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 2 additional..
        This three-week project begins with a measurement of "baseline" consumptive behavior followed by two weeks of working to reduce ...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Accuracy and Precision Lab (with measurement and density)

        Grades: 9 to 12
        Subjects: Professional Development, Mathematics
        In this lab exercise, students practice correctly using measurement tools, recording data, calculating density, using significan...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Investigating Wolf Behavior

        Grades: 6 to 9
        Subjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources
        This activity is a classroom investigation of wolf behavior where students use observational evidence to identify and describe w...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Our Place in the World (Long Island Series)

        Grades: No grades selected.
        Subjects: Professional Development, Science, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources
        Our Place in the World is a hands-on Google Earth activity designed to establish a local, regional, and global geographic contex...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        How Big is a Trillion?

        Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Mathematics
        Perhaps the first skill needed for successful quantitative reasoning is the ability to understand a single number. Newspaper hea...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        A Short Selection of Advertisements

        Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Mathematics
        Advertisers constantly thrust quantitative information in our face. Product claims, store enticements, health benefits, and scor...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Cost Effectiveness of Increased Fuel Efficiency

        Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Environmental Issues
        In this example students examine and critique an argument which implies that it is not cost effective to pay for an automobile w...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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        Calculating and Comparing Tax Rates

        Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Mathematics
        This example focuses on six letters to the editor. All six letters attempt to describe and compare the amount of taxes paid on t...
        Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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