Mon, Dec 15, 2014 7:31 PM in Roller Coaster Physics
I have seen some amazing K-Nex roller coasters, but when I teach my gifted workshop we make them more simply out of pipe-foam insulation, postal mailing tubes, and whatever else is in the recycling bin (TP tubes, popsickle sticks, plastic cups, etc.).
They are so creative in what they do - no two have ever been alike! I make all kinds of conditions they have to fulfill to successfully complete ...
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Mon, Dec 15, 2014 6:44 PM in Forms of Energy Lesson
It depends on if you are doing an introduction or a set of lessons and how old your students are.
When I introduced this, I set up stations and had the students visit each station and tell me the following: what kind of energy goes into this system, what kind of energy is in the middle (being used or transferred), and what kinds of energy comes out.
So, station 1 was a flashlight (chemical ...
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Mon, Dec 15, 2014 6:07 PM in Weather Projects
I am working on tweeking a climate unit where the students downloaded one of many weather apps and then used those to do a daily weather journal for their assigned location. We were working on global climate patterns, so I assigned them locations from different parts of the globe, but this could also be done for their country alone.
Since I wanted the students to do a climograph and compare it ...
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