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Circuit Designers

Resource ID: TXLSR12.007
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students will work in small groups of two to three on a structured challenge around circuits which includes requirements such as including using a switch or a conductor. They will then use that knowledge to work on a collaborative challenge to solve a relevant problem related to elephant poaching. Students will create a containment system that will have an alarm system, a lighting system, and a way to pass through. Finally, they will review the other projects and discuss similarities and differences in the design.

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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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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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Earth’s Movements

Resource ID: TXLSR5.012
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students will work in small collaborative groups to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth as it revolves around the Sun which creates a day and night cycle.

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Stop, Collaborate, and Rotate

Resource ID: TXLS092
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students will explore the Earth's rotation and its relation to the Sun and the Moon. Then, students will create a visual representation of this relationship and present it to the rest of the class.

Teacher doing Introduction

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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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Uses of Energy Lab

Resource ID: TXLS018
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students will rotate through lab stations equipped with objects and videos as they explore the uses and conversion of five different types of energy.

 

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Going on an Expedition

Resource ID: TXLS127
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students observe how dunes and canyons are created through agents of erosion by weathering and erosion.

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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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Drumming Up Some Sound Energy!

Resource ID: TXLS096
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: Science

Students will explore sound energy by creating their own drums using a variety of materials. Then, students will listen for the loud and soft sounds that each of the drums creates.

Introduction of Lesson using a video of drums

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Manifest Density

Resource ID: TXLSR14.018
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students will design a foil boat and add mass to test relative density.

Students describing how they got their boat to float.

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Scientifically Magnetic!

Resource ID: TXLS060
Grade Range: Kindergarten
Subject: Science

Students will review the steps of the scientific method and conduct an investigation that involves sorting magnetic and nonmagnetic objects.

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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

Ancillaries for TEA Physics

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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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