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Physics activities for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
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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"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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First Week of Physics | Back To School Bundle with Icebreakers
Perfect bundle for the first week of your physics class. This bundle includes differentiated syllabuses, icebreakers, math reviews, a student survey, pacing guides, lab safety guidelines, and a formula sheet. Additionally, we've added a day-by-day guide for the first week of school, so you know exactly what to do each day.Purpose:1) To encourage familiarity among students and between students and the teacher.2) To provide clear expectations for the course.3) To equip students with the skills to
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
HS-PS2-2
, HS-PS2-1
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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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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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
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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Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS Energy Activity BUNDLE
SAVE 30% OFF list prices plus a FREE BONUS! Includes 6 NO or LOW PREP activities! Includes engaging activities, graphing practice, hands-on stations, a low-prep lab, and a fun project for energy transformations - all designed to SUPPLEMENT and add FUN to an existing energy unit! ⭐ Looking for a FULL ENERGY UNIT? Click here!This bundle includes the following:Hands-On Forms of Energy Stations (Free bonus!)Energy Transformations MatchingEnergy Claims and Evidence ActivityPotential and Kinetic En
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7th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-PS3-1
Grant: Winning Proposal for LEGO Mindstorm Robotics Kits
This is a winning grant proposal to purchase LEGO Mindstorm Invention System robotics kits to use for science, physics, technology and engineering activities. A state electrical cooperation awarded $1500.00 for this grant in 2002. This proposal is customizable and can be adjusted to compensate for the variations in prices and costs of the equipment so please adjust this grant as you see necessary to meet your project needs. The customizable parts of this proposal are highlighted in yellow. The R
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4th - 12th
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
Work and Power Lab - Running the Stairs
INTRODUCTION
Most of us love the dear old Earth – in fact we’re quite attracted to it. That attraction arises from the Earth’s large mass and thus the Earth’s pull of gravity. When we lift a book away from the center of dear old Earth, we do work on that book. We do work because we must counteract the book’s attraction to the Earth in the process. We do work by applying a force over a distance. What does that do for us? Well, it tires us. The book, however, gets energy out of the deal. Any
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7th - 9th
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Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust
Questions for Eve Bunting's "Terrible Things - An Allegory of the Holocaust". The last questions ask students to compare theme with the poem "First They Came for the Jews", and to rewrite poem using modern situations.
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7th - 10th
Teach Tone, Mood, and Paraphrasing Using The Raven by Edgar A. Poe HALLOWEEN!
Teach an engaging, high interest lesson on tone, mood and paraphrasing using "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe! This flexible lesson plan can be used with cooperative groups and includes links to audio and video to use with "The Raven," as well as the text and a list of definitions for difficult words, a jigsaw paraphrasing activity, a word splash activity where students choose words from "The Raven" that contribute to the tone and mood, and finally, a Venn Diagram where students choose from a lis
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7th - 12th
Calculating Speed Practice Task Cards (15) Speed, Distance or Time EDITABLE
15 Calculating Speed Practice Task Cards ...
Students practice finding Speed, Distance or Time using formulas given.
Record sheet and answer key included.
EDITABLE
This activity pairs nicely with:
Calculating Speed Experiment & Practice using ramps, marbles- Scientific Method
AND it is part of the following BUNDLE:
Introduction to Motion and Calculating Speed Experiment Task Cards Bundle
More Great Force Stuff!
*Simple Machines Examples Cut and Paste
*Simple Machines Mini Book
* Force an
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5th - 8th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
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K - 3rd
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Newton's 2nd Law of Motion Lab Activity
This lab is a great way to reinforce the concepts tied to Newton's Second Law of Motion. It uses everyday materials so it is easy to use and set up.* Updated Nov. 2018 to include a Teacher Notes/Hints sheet and a diagram of the lab setup! Thanks for your feedback!* This lab is editable so you may fit your students needs. (Word document - 4 pages)There are two parts to the lab. In the first students increase mass by adding pennies (mass) to the cup. When students create bar graphs with their
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6th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-PS2-2
Potential and Kinetic Energy Pendulum Lab
This lab is an excellent way for students to demonstrate their understanding of Potential and Kinetic Energy and practice basic algebra skills. In addition, the lab equipment is easy for the instructor to acquire and set up. This assessment covers a few key concepts in physics, such as transformation of energy, inertia, potential and kinetic energy. Students create a pendulum on their desk out of washers, string, tape and a pencil and then calculate the velocity, potential and kinetic energy of
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8th - 11th
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STEM Project, Making a Catapult: Force, Work, Power and Energy
This is an exciting, hands-on STEM project in which students make small catapults with classroom supplies and collect data to calculate force, work, power, momentum and kinetic energy. At the end of the project the class can set up and compete in mini battles with their catapults in whatever type of games you want to come up with. Some game suggestions are given.
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9th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-PS3-2
, HS-PS3-1
, HS-PS3-3
CAN/CUP PHONE SOUND WAVE LAB
Remember making a phone by connecting two cans with a string, and talking through them? This project is an excellent opportunity to teach how sound travels through matter. Cans may be used, but large plastic cups work better. Paper cups are another option. Have string, fishing line, and wire available to use, adding variables to the lab. The kids will have great fun while learning about sound waves. The step-by-step worksheet includes desired learner outcomes and sound activity background. There
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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First Day 3D Metaphor Nameplate and MORE!
On the very first day, your students will have created a personal metaphor, completed a cool 3D visual art nameplate which can be used as an effective classroom management strategy throughout the year, completed a public speaking opportunity straight from the Common Core Standards, and will have proven themselves to be a supportive listener in the classroom. Yep, all in this one interactive critical thinking activity . . .
In this introductory lesson, students use a graphic organizer to brains
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CURRICULUM 1st-8th GATE
The Victorian Era - Pre-Reading Research Project and Simulation
For years I have taught A Christmas Carol, and each time I have tried to find an interesting way to teach my students about the Victorian setting of the novel. This activity I created has worked perfectly for my gifted students, but can be easily accommodated for any level of learning!What I have created is a three-part activity that doesn't just give students a research project, but also a role as a character from Victorian England. Adding the personal element has allowed my students to not j
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7th - 8th
Ratios Scale Comparison 6 Pack GIFTED AND TALENTED Hands-on Real World Math
Low prep! Get started tomorrow! Here are math selections from my most popular math and STEM units for GATE students.
Included in this collection are a baker’s half-dozen activities for real-world, high-interest hands-on math projects with ratio and scale. The activities often extend into art, science, engineering, or other areas of math as well.
You get at least 6 hours of contact time here. These activities are challenging for my 5th grade gifted and talented students and will still be
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4th - 7th
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