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Buildings Have Lives Too: Gingerbread House Demolition
In this lesson, students construct and then demolish a gingerbread house. As they demolish the gingerbread house, they must take care to separate their building materials so that they can be recycled. Recyclers will not accept material if it has been contaminated with other materials. All materials that cannot be separated must be landfilled and cannot be recycled. The group that recycles the most total material wins!
Buildings Have Lives Too: Disasters
Students research a disaster they are interested and search for the answers to four major questions. They then describe their disaster and put answers to the questions on a poster that they present to the class.
Bats Do It - Why Can't I?
In this lab students will determine how far away from a wall humans
need to be in order to hear both a sound and its echo. They will
also learn how bats locate objects using echolocation.
Go Car, Go
In this lab students will build a balloon powered car, without
directions, using the materials provided by the teacher. Students
will evaluate their cars for velocity, acceleration and momentum.
After class races, students will reevaluate their cars and suggest
changes for improvement.
How Do You Move Along the Earth?
In this lesson students will learn about velocity and how to measure
it. They will accomplish this through a lab where they calculate
their own walking and running velocity. At the end of the lab
students compare human speed to that of horses.
Marble Madness
In this lab, students will learn about velocity, its components and
how it is measured. This is accomplished by rolling a marble down a
ramp from 6 different heights. Students will calculate the velocity
of each roll and construct a graph.
Marble Madness II: Momentum
In this follow up lab to Marble Madness, students will learn about
momentum, its components and how it is measured. This is
accomplished by rolling marbles of 2 different sizes down a ramp
from 4 different heights. Students will calculate the momentum of
each roll and compare the momentum of a small marble to a large
marble.
Waves
Students learn about the
properties of waves and complete a worksheet. Next they explore how
waves are used in nature and discuss the conflict between the Navy’s
use of LFA sonar and whales.
Wow Waves
Students rotate through 7 lab stations where they explore waves
using a number of different media and origins. Using her
observations, the student forms and tests a hypothesis about waves.
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