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Higher education critical thinking laboratories
Nervous System Lesson (5 Senses)
Investigating The 5 Senses - A Series of Lab Activities for the Nervous System UnitIncluded:-A student worksheet for each of the "5 Senses" labs. (Some labs have multiple activities!)-A teacher guide slideshow to facilitate and run the lesson smoothly from-Teacher tips and preparation guides for each of the lab activities-ASL alphabet-Braille alphabet-Snellen vision test posters-Ishihara Color Test for Color Blindness-data tables-guided questions/ pre and post lab activity analysis questionsThis
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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STEM Marshmallow Challenge
The Marshmallow Challenge is an exciting STEM design challenge that will push your students to think like an engineer, problem solve, and collaborate with their peers. Students will have to manipulate limited materials to make sure they can successfully build a structure to support a marshmallow!
The Marshmallow Challenge has been used by teachers and developers alike in classrooms, professional development meetings, on business retreats and so much more. To learn more about The Marshmallow C
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Harry Potter Chemistry Inquiry Based Lab
In this project, students will design and make a magical object and a wand! Both of which work! They will use their knowledge of chemistry and explain how each of their items actually works. (Sorry no magical explanations allowed.) This open inquiry project takes 7 class periods if done to its full length, but can be made shorter. This is my students FAVORITE lab and they never forget it!
This product includes:
Instructions
Examples
Project Rubric
Presentation rubric
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Cajas de Cartón thematic questions for interpersonal speaking or writing
Cajas de cartón is a story about a teenage migrant worker who longs to be a student. The story is found in AP books and on-line. These are high level, thought-provoking questions designed for AP, IB, or Native speaker courses.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Creativity Test Intelligence Psychology
You can play this in your thinking, language and intelligence unit….or maybe in any class…. You can play as a class or have volunteers play against each other a couple at a time. Make sufficient copies. Contestants have 3 minutes to make as many mini pictures as they can. You can simply measure how many they get. In the event of a tie or if you really want to find the kids who are different you can go through and have the kids cross off every one their competitors have THEN count how many are le
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Particular Concepts Secondary Models (Secondary Activities Companion)
The detailed building instructions for the models featured in the Particular Concepts Secondary Activities.
Creative hands-on activities on their own, your students will relish turning Duplo into physics laboratory tools and demonstrations.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Psychology Lab Optimism Bias AP Psychology Cognitive Bias
Optimism Bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the likelihood of good things happening to them and to underestimate the likelihood bad things will happen to them. Through this lab we will attempt to identify “optimism” in our friends and acquaintances. Survey 27 students; ask them if they think they are going to be more or less healthy than the average American. Record and graph your results.Here we have 4 versions, we survey each other about money, success, health and car
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Pre-Calc: Graphing and Comparing Exponential & Logarithmic Functions
This worksheet uses the graphing calculator and is a discovery lesson detailing the properties of the graphs of exponential and logarithmic functions. It is divided into two sections so that it can be done during two class periods. The last page asks the student to make comparisons between the graphs and the properties of the two functions, leading to the inverse property between the two.
This activity lends itself easily to collaborative learning and that is encouraged. Students are also enc
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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STEM - Dollar Store Design Challenge - Marshmallow Tower
This is a great discovery-based activity!Many teachers' favorite store is their local Dollar Store. I personally am willing to spend a little of my own money for a great lesson plan.The Design Challenge idea is not new, but has gained tremendous momentum with the increase in STEM education focus over the last few years. These challenges force learners in to a growth mindset but requiring multiple trials, being creative with limited supplies and by relying on group members for suggestions.I typic
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-2
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DIGITAL SCIENCE LABBOOK NGSS/ADI ALIGNED
Here is an ALL in ONE stop for a digital lab notebook. This notebook follows ADI/NGSS standards and activities. You can also add additional slides or information that you may need. A slide for notes, proposal, CER, and data collection are included. Just add text boxes :). If there are any tips or adjustments I can make on this resource to make it more useful for you please let me know!
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Parapsychology Lab Psychology Psychic
Ready to broach Parapsychology with your students? Here is a lab I called “Parapsychology.” In the lab the students are asked whether or not they are psychic, and do they know anyone they think is psychic. The students then take a 100 question test of “psychic ability.” The test is simply a 100 question multiple choice test where the answers have been assigned randomly. The students are simply shown A, B, C and D and asked to pick one. The students collaborate, and do some data comparison. As th
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Parapsychology The Luck O'The Irish Psychology Critical thinking
Ready to broach critical thinking or parapsychology with your students? Here is a lab I called “Luck O’The Irish.” In the lab the students are asked whether or not they are lucky, and do they know anyone they think is lucky. The students then take a 100 question test of “luck.” The test is simply a 100 question multiple choice test where the answers have been assigned randomly. The students are simply shown A, B, C and D and asked to pick one. The students collaborate, and do some data compariso
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Programming in BASIC: Golf Anyone?
This activity can be used in conjunction with any of the other computer science labs (Physics: Introduction to Programming I, etc.) offered by Creative Curricula. This lab can also be used as a stand-alone activity. Experienced code writers understand a variety of computer languages. BASIC is the first computer language that reached the masses in the 1970s and early 1980s. While it is not used much today, a great deal can be learned about coding by using BASIC. This activity requires students to
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-4
Bungee Drop
Using extrapolation skills in order to “save” a load of pennies from going splat when dropped from a two-story height. The bag of pennies must come to within one foot of the ground without touching it. There are several combinations of rubber bands and pennies that will work.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Kore.ai Chat Bot Tutorial to Create a Bot and Make a Weather API Call Beginner
The website is a STEP BY STEP guide to help you make your first API call and the video will show you how to build, deploy, and publish your very own Kore.ai chatbot that will be live on the web. This gives you a quick overview of how to build questions and conversations, test and debug your tasks, deploy to the web, and publish your updates.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Rotational Motion Experiment Planning sheet
** Editable **
Help students design, plan, and organize their own experiment investigating the relationship between linear and angular motion.
Planning sheet contains
1. Objective
2. Materials
3. Questions to consider (What is your hypothesis? What data will you collect? How will you organize it? What are you predicting? Can you calculate a % error?)
4. Report Requirements
5. Grading Rubric
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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