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Solar System Modeling

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

This hands-on science lesson will help students get a more accurate view of the solar system by making a scale model with play dough, balloons, rulers, and tape!

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Solar System Modeling Scale Measurement Critical Thinking

Living In A Closed System

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

In this hands-on lesson, students will consider what they think about several different closed systems. Then students will design and carry out investigations of living things to inform their closed

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Ecology Soil Model Critical Thinking

Lego Seismographs

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

In this engaging lesson, students use LEGOs to create a working seismograph. Included are all the materials you will need, video links, a pre and post assessment and rubric. Students will enjoy this

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Invasive Species: Lionfish

Grades: 6th Grade

Can one organism turn an ecosystem upside down? In this engaging lesson, students use an interactive site (hhmi biointeractive) to understand and answer how a species becomes invasive, analyze

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Ecology Invasive Species Graphs Data Critical Thinking

The Water Princess - A Water Filtration Lesson

Grades: 1st Grade

In this hands-on lesson, students will listen to "The Water Princess" by Susan Verde and then create their own water filtration system in a small group. Students will consider questions like, "How can

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Edison Robots and the Spiraling Spider Trap Part 2

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Building on the programming concepts explored in part 1, this lesson asks students to re-imagine the ‘spiral-out’ program to be a spiral-in program instead. Designed to be a stepping-stone activity to

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Edison Spider Trap Lesson Part 1

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

In this engaging lesson students are introduced to the key computational concept of variables using Edison robots and the Scratch-based programming language EdScratch4. Variables, which can be created

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Edison Robot Challenges

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

In this hands-on lesson students review the Edison robot and coding in Edscratch. They will then work together to solve math problems and then code the Edison robot to match their solution to the math

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Introduction to Edison Robot

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

In this lesson students will be introduced to the Edison Robot and coding. They will work collaboratively to code a program in EdScratch for Edison to complete. Students will work together to test and

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