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High school precalculus laboratories for special education
Make Multiple Vectors Fun! Pirate Treasure Hunt - Physics, Trigonometry
This is one of my student’s favorite activities. Who doesn’t want to go outside and map out some vectors? It works well in physics or trigonometry for understanding how to add and subtract multiple vectors. 10 different maps are provided for student groups to make their way from a single point of origin to a designated, X-marks-the-spot, using compass headings of N, S, E, and W and specified distances. The groups all have a different path but end up at the same place. At the end, students dr
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Plate Tectonics LAB: Yummy! Eat Your Boundaries (Graham Crackers and Fluff)
EAT YOUR PLATES AND YOUR ASTHENOSPHERE! Graham cracker based plate tectonic boundaries lab. A dynamic tutorial on plate boundaries and model manipulation that kids LOVE! You can eat it too!
Loaded with COLOR and IMAGES!
This is a can’t miss lab! You can use the images provided OR use actual lab materials to mimic the lab procedure provided!
This lab includes the following:
-Terminology-asthenosphere, lithosphere, plate boundaries, convergent, divergent, transform, oceanic crust, contin
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion: ELLIPSE LAB - Loaded with FUN!
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Come explore a beautiful marriage of both math and science. Experience Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion like you never have before. In this dynamic ellipse lab, content and inquiry go hand in hand. This special creation is applicable to many ability and grade levels. This is lab is LOADED starting with Kepler’s 3 Laws. First, the law of ellipses. Second, the law of equal areas. Third, th
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6th - 12th
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Diffusion and Osmosis Lab Packets
This lab packet contains 1 Skittles Diffusion Experiment and 1 Osmosis Gummy Bear Experiment. Both labs come with a list of materials needed, directions for setting it up, student data sheets to record their observations, and questions about each lab. The packet also includes quick wrap-up notes for the following day to reinforce the skills discovered in the experiment. and eliminate any misconceptions. I'm also including a FREE watercolors diffusion art activity that both you and your studen
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9th - 12th
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Plate Tectonics, Pangaea, and Continental Drift LAB (Lots of FUN!!!)
Meet the ULTIMATE Super Continent! PANGAEA! Come experience an in depth tutorial and analysis of Pangaea, its before, and its after. A variety of fun and engaging pedagogical strategies (some you have probably never seen before) including:
-Puzzle construction: colorful with differentiated symbols to denote: cynognathus fossils, mesosaurus fossils, glossopteris fossils, lystrosaurus fossils, young rock formations, and old rock formations. Using a color/symbol coded key students assemble a
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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LAB - Sugar Cube Weathering
This is a lab activity about physical weathering (abrasion) and chemical weathering (affect of temperature and surface area). Students will model abrasion by shaking sugar cubes in plastic bottles. Then, they will model the affect of temperature on weathering and the affect of surface area on weathering using sugar cubes.
This is a fun lab for students and is very cost-effective. I have students bring in empty gatorade bottles (they are hard plastic and will last for years). Sugar cubes can be
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8th - 12th
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Scientific Method Sequence Display Cards
Scientific Method Display Cards are a great resource to reinforce the steps to the scientific method as well a supporting science fair project work. This product includes two levels of differentiation, one with picture supported text and the second level using sight word sentences. It is recommended that the two levels are attached to the front and back of sentence strips to create an instructional activity that can be used to address diverse literacy skills within the same activity.Scientific
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K - 12th
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Polar Graphs Investigation
Students will investigate circles, rose curves, limaçons, and lemniscates. They will note observations based on patterns they see. Instructions for setting up various calculators (TI, Geogebra, and Desmos) are included.
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11th - 12th
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Life Skills Scrambled Eggs | Cooking Competition Cooking Lab | FCS
Grab your aprons and chef’s hats for this fun and eggciting scrambled egg cooking lab to teach life skills. Students will turn eggs into a delicious masterpiece in this eggcellent cooking activity. In this lesson, students will come up with their own scrambled egg recipe and have it be presented to judges! They will practice creativity, time management skills, and use teamwork to put their best eggs forward. Students will be placed into groups of three or four for this scrambled egg competition
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Life Skills Cooking Competition Bundle Part 2
Cloud in a Bottle LAB (BEST LAB OF THE YEAR!)
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-Southern Science Specialists - Chapel Hill, North Carolina-
KIDS SAY - Their FAVORITE LAB OF THE YEAR! A lab for all ages! Check out the preview! Cloud in a bottle lab. Incorporates the properties of the troposphere, where clouds form, recipe for a cloud, scientific method, data collection, data analysis, and conclusion questions. In color with a color coded in order answer key. This lab can be dif
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4th - 9th
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Force, Motion and Work Unit
In this download you will find:- Introduction Power Point for terminology (can be printed as a word wall)- Introduction Power Point for Newton's Laws- Note sheet to go with the two power points- Force practice Sheet - Force do now - Work guided practice sheet- Work independent practice sheet- Work homework- Force and work quiz- how does this ball move lab*** for the set up of the lab, you need two pencils and rubber band between them and a ball that you can flick with the rubber band. Set up a r
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: FORCE, MOTION & WORK - Digital and Printable
Rock Cycle CRAYON LAB (A MUST HAVE! Unique and So Much Fun!)
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CRAYON LAB! So much fun!!!
Kids LOVE THIS LAB! Instead of using crayons to color, use crayons to demonstrate the rock cycle! 2 separate activities for differentiated levels.
Pairs great with the DICE GAME found at the link below:
ROCK CYCLE DICE GAME
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3rd - 10th
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Plate Tectonics: Make Your Own VOLCANO LAB! (Extended Version; EASY TO DO; FUN)
This is the extended version complete with actual procedural photographs.
MAKE YOU OWN VOLCANO! IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
This version provides pictures in case one does not actually have the materials below. If materials are available to you, see below for must haves and optional materials.
Material MUST HAVES: Flask, stopper or cork, baking soda, and vinegar.
Optional materials to enhance the experience: paper towels, tape, ruler, beaker, goggles, and scissors.
This kid and adult frie
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3rd - 9th
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Rotational Inertia of a Roll Of Masking Tape Lab - Honors or AP Physics
Determining the Rotational Inertia of a Roll of Masking TapeThis activity is designed for Honors or Advanced Placement Physics and can be done with nothing more than ordinary lab equipment - meter sticks, a balance, and an inclined plane (I use foam core science fair boards) and slow motion video capture software. I use Technique Hudl as an app. It’s free, easy to learn and collects data beautifully but you can use any slo-motion app you'd like or even use a stop watch though your data won't be
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Projectile Motion Video Analysis Jericho Missile Iron Man
Students love this activity and it changes how they look at movies and at the physics in film. Video analysis is a powerful tool in a physics class and your students will look forward to the next one.
I created this teacher driven activity around a short clip from the first Iron Man movie that is available on YouTube. You can use this in any level of physics class where students use the sine, cosine and trig functions, even if they aren’t very good at it. Because you drive the analysis, thi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Adapted Science: States of Matter Experiments
The adapted science curriculum is designed for learners of all abilities to be able to access the science state standards and common core curriculum. This activity is specific to the topic of states of matter and enables learners to demonstrate their knowledge through a permanent product in the form of a lab experiment. There are 2 experiments included.Each experiment has 2 versions of visual directions and 4 levels of the lab hand out. The hand out aligns with the scientific method steps that
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Adapted Science: States of Matter Unit Bundle
Minerals: Table Salt and Epsom Salt LAB with BONUS Crystal Activity
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Mineral Crystal Systems
Mineral crystal system tutorial and lab starts with cut, paste, and identification crystal system images. Crystal systems include: isometric (cube and octahedron), tetragonal (tetragonal prism, dipyramid, and pyramid with prism), hexagonal (dypyramid, prism, and rhombohedron), orthorhombic (rhombic prism), monoclinic (m
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3rd - 9th
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Ball Toss Projectile Motion Activity - On Level, Trig Based or AP Physics
This is an excellent activity to develop the mathematics of upwardly fired projectiles. It has low error, uses a free app for measuring motion and students must work as a team.Students work in groups of 4 to toss a tennis ball or similar item a horizontal distance of 4-6 meters between them and video capture the event. They then record the time data, measure the toss angle, calculate the vertical and horizontal components of motion and determine the resultant launch speed. It takes students 4
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9th - 12th
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Pringles Ring Physics Challenge
This super fun engineering activity only takes one class period to complete – 55 minutes. There is some real math with this as well. I used this as my physics final this year. This is a terrific activity to reinforce engineering concepts and could really be put anywhere in your IPC, physics, engineering, or physical science class Students work in pairs or alone to build a vertical ring out of Pringles Chips/Crisps with a minimum diameter of 12.0 cm and the least number of chips possible. Student
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9th - 12th
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LAB - Lake Effect Snowfall in New York
In this lab, students will compare the amount of snowfall in Buffalo, New York to Albany, New York by constructing bar graphs.
Students will also:
- plot the latitude and longitude coordinates for these cities on a map of New York State to see how close Buffalo is to a large lake
- draw the prevailing wind direction across Lake Erie that causes lake-effect snow in Buffalo
- recommend essential items for an emergency preparation kit for homes
- recommend essential items for an emergency prepa
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8th - 12th
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Geologic Time Lab: GO BACK IN TIME! (Enhanced Version-Fun and Popular with Kids)
Enhanced version of the original (images only) in which detailed TEXTUAL information and factual data is assigned in combination with the colorful images. Go BACK IN TIME! A COLORFUL and ENGAGING time sensitive chronological breakdown of the major geologic eras complete with correlating images and event summaries. Fascinating cut and paste or Velcro activity where students can match significant fossils and geologic episodes on a color coded geologic time scale present with the time frames of:
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5th - 9th
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Easy Experimement: Making Recycled Paper; Boardmaker; Earth Day
This environmental science experiment is modified from the middle school environmental curriculum. It is excellent for special education students who require an alternate or modified curriculum. It is a fairly inexpensive project that the kids will love!The worksheet and experiment in combination align with Maryland State Curriculum Standards: ~Environmental Science (grade 6) : 6.B.1.c Identify and describe that ecosystems can be impacted by human activities. • Recycling • ~1.D.3.a - Given vocab
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2nd - 12th
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Complete Water Quality Investigation
This product provides a complete investigation unit to teach students how to determine the quality of a water source. Guided notes (with answer key) provide students with the background knowledge they need to conduct a variety of water tests including pH, phosphates, nitrates, temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity and flow rate. Student recording sheets for their collected data as well as other observations about the stream will help to draw conclusions about a stream's quality. Students w
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6th - 9th
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Minerals: Crystal Types and Structure (COLORFUL - 3 Versions and Modified)
Great introduction to minerals using crystal shapes and internal crystalline structure. Teachers often avoid crystal structure instruction due to the complex nature of the specific crystal shapes and terminology. This activity will make this difficulty a NON ISSUE.
Mineral crystal system tutorial and lab starts with cut, paste, and identification crystal system images. Crystal systems include: isometric (cube and octahedron), tetragonal (tetragonal prism, dipyramid, and pyramid with prism
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3rd - 9th
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