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In the United States, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) lay out disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts that students should master in preparation for college and careers. Through a project with Achieve, Inc. and the New York Hall of Science, Teachers TryScience is providing a growing set of lessons that reflect some of the shifts in the NGSS, along with resources that will support you in aligning your own lessons to NGSS. |
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 Using the THINK app (free for iPad and 10" Android tablets), students will explore how progress is shaped through a common and systematic approach that follows a five-step process of Seeing, Mapping, Understanding, Believing and Acting (SMUBA). Your students will explore the process of innovation and participate in as many as three units, featuring hands-on lessons that will to help them become innovators in their own right and to take actions that can help them become forward-thinking citizens of the world. |
Lessons
176 Lesson Plans
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Mar 21 2011
Source: NYSCI
This lesson challenges groups of students to design and construct a wind generator with the most electrical output. |
EQuIP-reviewed Jun 29 2015
Source: NYSCI
In this lesson, students investigate where their electricity comes from and consider the tradeoffs between different sources of energy. They then design, test, and evaluate wind turbines that can be used to generate electricity to answer the driving question: How can we design a wind turbine that effectively converts one form of energy into another form of energy? |
 EQuIP-reviewed Jun 11 2015
Source: NYSCI
In this lesson, students will use information about the connection between changes in biodiversity and changes in water quality to articulate criteria and constraints for a water filter design. They will answer the driving question:
What factors are considered when designing a water filter in response to a change in biodiversity that affects ecosystem services?
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EQuIP-reviewed Jun 11 2015
Source: NYSCI
In this lesson, students will use the criteria and constraints they articulated in You Are What You Drink Part 1 to build and evaluate a water filter. They will answer the driving question:
Based on a set of criteria and constraints, how do we build and evaluate a water filter that will lead to an optimized system that meets the needs of clean water for human use and consumption?
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Mar 21 2011
Source: TeachEngineering Digital Library
In this lesson, students will design and build a model filter and compare it to processes used by engineers in water treatment. |
 May 01 2013
Source: CyArk
Construct a topographic model of Mount Rushmore. After the model is complete, students will use concepts of scale and proportion (similarity) to calculate the scale of their model by comparing it to real-life measurements. |
 May 06 2014
Source: pharristx
The students will participate in a scavenger hunt for different types of weathering, erosion, and deposition examples discussed in class. |
 Jan 05 2012
Source: wolfie76
This lesson is designed as an introduction to worms. Students will observe real worms to discover the structure of their anatomy. Students will also create an indoor habitat to observe worms in their natural environment. |
 Jan 05 2012
Source: Tina Kacandes
In this lesson, students select an area of interest to explore, using maps, walking the terrain, and constructing an elevation profile. |
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Feb 27 2015
Source: santhiyams
A branch of mathematics in which symbols, usually letters of the alphabet, represent numbers or members of a specified set and are used to represent quantities and to express general relationships that hold for all members of the set.
A set together with a pair of binary operations defined on the set. Usually, the set and the operations simultaneously form both a ring and a module. |
Mar 20 2014
Source: safaab
Summary Information
Force –Air pushing force –motion – applications –pulling rope game
In this lesson ,student will focuses on the role of the force in our daily life through doing some activities and some games |
 May 03 2013
Source: CyArk
Using 3-D archaeological data, students will build scale models of a Mayan pyramid using sugar cubes. Using the sugar cube pyramids, students will then conduct an experiment on erosion to learn about its effect on archaeological sites. Who said science can't be sweet? |