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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells icon
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells

Resource ID: TXLSR14.049
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will categorize cells as prokaryotic or eukaryotic by identifying the presence or lack of a nucleus.

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Resource ID: TXLSR7.004
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy by creating a real-world model through a movie.

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Newton's Second Law

Resource ID: TXLSR13.047
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will work in partners to investigate Newton’s second law by testing a series of experiments with varying conditions.

 

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Does it have Potential?

Resource ID: TXLSR13.048
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will work with partners to investigate how mass, potential energy, and kinetic energy act on objects dropped from varying heights.

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How Newton's Laws Apply Every Day

Resource ID: TXLSR11.023A
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students collaboratively determine how the characteristics of a real-world job correlate with each of Newton’s Laws and why that is relevant to their own lives.

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Got Force?

Resource ID: TXLSR11.023B
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students use various surfaces and a weighted car to see how far the car will travel using balanced and unbalanced forces.

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Convergent Plate Boundaries

Resource ID: TXLS135
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will design and test models that will identify crustal features formed by convergent plate boundaries.

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Full Speed Ahead

Resource ID: TXLS006
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will use hover pucks to measure speed over a distance of six meters. Once speed has been calculated, students will determine velocity using the same data. Finally, students will be able to label all points of acceleration.

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Push Back, Pull Forward

Resource ID: TXLS118
Grade Range: 3
Subject: Science

Students will conduct an experiment to demonstrate force such as pushes and pulls.

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Motion Pictures

Resource ID: TXLS028
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of motion representation using distance vs. time graphs. Students will recognize labeling of axes, steepness related to speed, horizontal lines as non-motion, and downward slope as return to origin.

 

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Earth: A Tilted Affair

Resource ID: TXLS059
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

After a brief review of direct and indirect sunlight, students will arrange heat maps and globes around a drawing of the Sun based on the tilt of Earth and how it affects Earth’s temperature.

 

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What's going on with our plates?

Resource ID: TXLS232
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

The students will work collaboratively in small, ability-based groups in stations that will require them to use their academic vocabulary, academic language, and self-assessment to generate a product showing what they have learned.

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Let's FIND Speed!

Resource ID: TXLSR5.004
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

This research lesson requires students to distinguish between speed, distance, and time. Students will use formulas to calculate the three using a checklist. Students will also create their own speed, distance, or  time word problem using the knowledge gained in this lesson.

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Gravity in Space

Resource ID: TXLSR7.005
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will participate in stations that reinforce their understanding of gravity, especially gravity in space.

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Biotic and Abiotic Factors of an Ecosystem

Resource ID: TXLS252
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will explore abiotic and biotic factors in various ecosystems by working through stations. Students will be able to identify and describe abiotic and biotic factors within an ecosystem.

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OnTRACK Grade 8 Science: Force, Motion, and Energy

Grade Range: 6 - 8
Subject: Science

Students will explore the relationship between force, motion, and energy. 

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1 Electric Charge and Electric Field

Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: Science

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Instructional Support Ancillaries for TEA Physics

Grade Range: 1 - PreK
Subject: Science

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Investigating Balanced and Unbalanced Forces

Resource ID: TXLSR13.019
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will investigate balanced and unbalanced forces through a series of lab stations.

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