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Free middle school basic operations laboratories
Field Trip to a Grocery Store and Bank
If you study family finances and healthy foods with your class, have you ever considered taking a field trip to a local grocery store and bank? Both need to be prearranged with the bank and grocery store.The bank is usually happy to plan an hour or two with your students. My bank breaks the kids up into groups and different department personnel discuss that aspect of the bank’s service. Very interesting! For the grocery store visit, you usually only need to tell the manager that you will be c
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4th - 6th
Surface Tension/Cohesion Lab
The Penny Drop Lab
Your students will be WOWED by this fun and easy experiment.
-Calculate mean/average
-Test a hypothesis
-Construct a bar graph
-Analyze data
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2nd - 8th
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Economics Laboratory: Factory Simulation
Coupled with a dynamic, interactive web simulation, this lab activity takes students into the fascinating world of the factory. "Think you have what it takes to run a complex machine, control the flow of manufacturing and production, minimize waste and MAXIMIZE profits? And can you do this this while listening to campy 1990s 8-bit music? Let’s find out…" Getting students interested in what manufacturing may involve can be challenging, but this simulation takes up this challenge and succeeds w
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Order of Operations and Chemical Reactions Elephant Toothpaste
In this lesson, students are exposed to order of operations in math and use the order of operations to solve problems to get the correct numbers of ounces, cups, etc for ingredients for a science experiment - elephant toothpaste.
Students will be using order of operations, following a set of directions in the correct order, and exploring an exothermic chemical reaction all while have a great messy fun time!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Dino Ratios - Using Toy Dinosaurs to Understand Ratios
Students use toy dinosaurs to practice concepts of measurement, ratios, proportions, fractions, decimals.
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6th - 8th
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High Roller - Unit Rate Lab
The main focus of this task is calculating unit rates, but I turned it into a lab to give students the opportunity to think like scientists. You can shorten it and give more distinct parameters to fit your classroom. I left some of it open for students to explore and explain for themselves. Enjoy!
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5th - 8th
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