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7th grade physics resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Earthquake Jello Lab Activity STEM
This lab or activity is a hands-on and collaborative learning lesson that incorporates the following:
STEM
Earthquakes
Geology
Engineering
Design
Real-World Connections
Problem Solving
Inferencing and Predicting
Materials: this handout, mini-marshmellows, toothpicks, jello
Overview: Students will work together to tackle a real-world problem: engineers are constantly working to design and build buildings that can survive the impact of serious earthquakes. I show students some videos and picture
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5th - 10th
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Motion Review Worksheet: Distance Time Graphs
A nice, simple review of motion and interpreting distance-time graphs. I put together various different distance-time graphs to allow students practice in interpreting them. Great for middle school or introductory high school courses. I have included a key.
Main topics: motion, speed, reference point, velocity, speed (distance time) graphs, slope
If you like this activity, you can follow these links to other lessons and activities in my motion and forces units.
Motion PowerPoint Presentat
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Integer Project Bundle
Integer Projects Bundle
Need an integer project idea? This bundle includes 5 Integer Projects that you can use in your classroom. This is great for grades 6-8. I have used these in the past for an alternative to a written integer test. These projects are 21st century and provide real-world application. Great part about this – completely editable.
Projects Included:
-Budgeting Your Money with Integers (with rubric)
-Integer Timeline (with rubric)
-Integer Rules Comic Strip
-I am an Integer
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6th - 8th
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Rube Goldberg simple machine project
This is a 2 page description/procedure/rubric for a Rube Goldberg project. I gave my class 2 full weeks to work on this. They are provided with minimal materials, the rest is gathered from home (recyclable materials, toys, etc..). A PowerPoint presenation accompanies the Rube Goldberg machine. My students LOVED doing this and they learned a lot about simple machines as well.
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5th - 12th
Paper Airplane Lab: Gravity and Air Resistance
This activity helps demonstrate some of the unbalanced forces, namely gravity and air resistance, that affect us every day. Students should predict why paper airplanes do not stay in the air forever. After testing their paper airplane, they should create a force diagram and answer some questions regarding these unbalanced forces.
Materials needed: paper, meter stick
Main topics: unbalanced forces, gravity, air resistance (friction).
Quick, easy, and effective in demonstrating gravity and
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Math Project-Create Own Dream Home-Blueprints and Floor Plan (perimeter & area)
Create blueprints and/or floor plans for your own dream home!!
Your little architects will love dreaming big with this project. Using their imaginations and graph paper, they will create their own blueprints.They will be learning area, measurement and perfecting those problem solving and critical thinking skills. The bonus is they won't even know it because they will be having fun.
This project is very "real life" oriented.
For the younger grades this would be better for the GT students. Or
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Newton's Third Law of Motion Practice Problems
The Newton's Third Law of Motion Practice Problems has questions and diagrams to really help students break down and understand the meaning of this law of interaction. In the first part, students look at simple examples to describe the action reaction force. Then, they identify the magnitude and direction of the reaction force given the magnitude and direction of the action force. Lastly, they look at several examples including a spring scale, air balloon, and car collision example to explain
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6th - 9th
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Newton's Second Law of Motion Practice Problems
This file helped my students understand and solve for force, mass, and acceleration using Newton's second law of motion. There are 22 word problems with varying degrees of difficulty. I also included a detailed answer key which detailed step by step explanations and answers. The answer key can be printed out for student reference and review.
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6th - 9th
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"Inertia Games" Lab Activity - Newton's 1st Law of Motion
Students are introduced to the concept of Newton's 1st Law of Motion and inertia by completing six (6) different challenges/games in this lab activity. Example of one of the game challenges:a. Get a plastic cup, index cards, and a quarter. b. Place the index card on top of the cup so it is centered over the opening. Put the quarter on top of the index card. c. Using your finger pull the index card out from under the quarter. You are trying to get the quarter to drop into the cup. d. Compl
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5th - 10th
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Wave Energy Lab (slinky) w/key
Two day lab dealing with transverse and longitudinal waves using a slinky. Students observe Amplitude, Wavelength, Crest, and Trough and draw where these are in the wave. Constructive & Destructive interference. Five page lab with great questions Comes with answer key.
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7th - 9th
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Mythbusters Breaking Glass Episode Mechanical Waves Worksheet Movie Guide (+Key)
*** Currently looking for link to free video for you ***- Comes with Complete Teacher Key- No Prep, just copy!- 11 Short Answer Questions - 50 Min Mythbusters Episode covering Mechanical Waves called 'Breaking Glass'- Could be done along with the video, or given as an assessment afterwards. - 'Real World' example of Mechanical Waves for students
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Grades:
7th - 12th
SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-
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4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Simple Machines Marshmallow Catapult Lab Experiment - Newton's Laws
Really fun way to teach simple machines, levers, and Newton's Laws. This is a lesson plan with the full description of how to make marshmallow catapults to launch in class. This is a formal lesson plan, usable for any observation. This was a big hit in the classroom!
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3rd - 10th
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Small Group Reader's Theater Twisted Fairy Tales - Book Two
In this second book of Reader's Theaters for small groups, I have placed 7 scripts. They are: Sleeping Homely, The Princess and the Pizza for 3 people, The Princess and the Pizza for 4, Peter Pants and Captain Looks, Beauty & the Beets (and the Turnips and the Onions), Romeo and Juliet, Hansel and Pretzel. I realize that Peter Pants and Captain Looks as well as Romeo and Juliet are not strictly fairy tales but they are very well known and fun for the students. You can buy each of these indiv
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Motion Review Worksheet: Speed Time Graphs
A nice, simple review of motion and interpreting speed-time graphs. I put together various different speed-time graphs to allow students practice in interpreting them. Great for middle school or introductory high school courses. I have included a key.
Main topics: speed, velocity, acceleration, speed vs. time graphs, slope
If you like this activity, you can follow these links to other lessons and activities in my motion and forces units.
Motion PowerPoint Presentation
Acceleration PowerP
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Types of Forces: Gravity, Friction, Applied, Normal Force Worksheet
The Type of Forces Practice Problems includes 28 questions to help students understand the different types of forces (applied force, normal force, gravity, friction, tension, spring force) and its effects on motion. In the first part, students match the different types of forces with the definition and description. Next, students find the net force and describe what happens when balanced and unbalanced forces act on an object. Lastly, students look at different examples and determine the type
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6th - 9th
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Sound and Light Wave Review
A simple worksheet I use in class for reviewing sound and light waves. Simple vocabulary and wave anatomy is presented. Worksheet is suitable for elementary or high school although it would probably be overly simplistic for a high school physics course except as a pre-test. Satisfies CA Physics Standards 4a, 4b,and 4d. Created by Rob Whitbey.
Keywords: Wave, Sound, Light, Wavelegth, crest, trough, longitudinal, tranverse.
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5th - 10th
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Sound Waves Webquest
This webquest was designed to provide students with an opportunity to use technology while learning about sound-related concepts such as characteristics of sound waves (pitch, frequency, Doppler Effect, etc) QR code and the web address is included!
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5th - 10th
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Electricity Webquest
Students will explore the basic fundamentals of electricity, such as static & current electricity, circuits, conductors and insulators, etc. . QR codes are included for easy access to the required websites!
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5th - 10th
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STEAM Kid Engineering -- The Playable Golf Course Design Unit for GATE
In this unit, students will build a contraption to hit a small, wooden golf ball through a scaled version of a golf course which they and their classmates have designed. They’ll make a trundle wheel for measuring and marking the course, write down their scores on a scorecard, design putters, and learn background in physics through their work in the engineering and design process.
The Playable Golf Course is not just fun. It’s a challenging engineering, design, and construction unit including
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Inertia Lab: Testing Newtons First Law of Motion
Students always enjoy testing inertia. This activity takes students through three activities that demonstrate Newton's First Law of Motion. Students should notice that an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Materials needed: coins or washers, beaker or cup, note card, toy car.
Main topics: inertia, Newton's First Law of Motion
Quick, easy, and effective in demonstrating inertia. Great for middle school or
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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