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FOSS Variables FOSS Lifeboat Investigation: Developing Investigable Question, Investigation (Experimentation), and Communicating Results
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FOSS Variables FOSS Lifeboat Investigation: Developing Investigable Question, Investigation (Experimentation), and Communicating Results
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This activity is an extension of the FOSS Variables Lifeboat investigation. Students choose a lifeboats variable to investigate, write up an experiment based on the variable to be tested, test the variable, and create a lifeboats investigation poster to share their results.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
amy walvatne
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Family Economy of 19th-Century Industrial Workers
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Family Economy of 19th-Century Industrial Workers
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This activity teaches students how to formulate research questions and perform empirical analysis. Students analyse family budgets from late 19th-century industrial workers.

Subject:
Economics
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
George Alter
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Famous Scientists
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Famous Scientists
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This lesson is a presentation of famous scientist throughout history where the students will learn and take notes about the contributions and discoveries made in science.

Subject:
Life Science
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Pam Schilling
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Field Activity: Exploring Glaciers, Ancient Seas, and Volcanism
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Field Activity: Exploring Glaciers, Ancient Seas, and Volcanism
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In a field investigation to Interstate State Park, students determine lava flow boundaries and observe an ancient rift valley. They also examine differential erosion rates that create a waterfall, and examine the local basalts for evidence of glaciation, including the world-famous potholes.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Ann Berg
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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First Class Levers
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First Class Levers
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This activity is an investigative introduction to class 1 levers. Students create levers and record observations to determine the use and components of a lever.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jennifer Krings
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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First Class Levers: Investigating the Relationship Between the Force of Effort, Force of Resistance, and the Placement of the Fulcrum
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First Class Levers: Investigating the Relationship Between the Force of Effort, Force of Resistance, and the Placement of the Fulcrum
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This is an exploratory activity where students in small groups discover the relationship between the force of resistance, the force of effort, and placement of the fulcrum in a first class lever.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Cynthia Ward
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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First Grade Collecting Leaves with the Book "Leaf Man"
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First Grade Collecting Leaves with the Book "Leaf Man"
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This activity is takes place in nature and in the classroom. Students are gathering different types of leaves and naming characteristics of each then sorting them by those characteristics. Students then make a picture with leaves and writes 2-3 sentences about their picture using the characteristic words.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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The First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins
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The First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins
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This activity will provide the students with an opportunity to use inquiry. This activity will also help them to begin to understand friction and inertia,.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Vicki Hanson
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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The Five Senses - Differentiated Lesson for ESL/Special Needs Students
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The Five Senses - Differentiated Lesson for ESL/Special Needs Students
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This guided inquiry activity is designed to help students understand that people get all of their knowledge from their senses, and that is why our senses are so important.

Subject:
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Flame Test
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Flame Test
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This activity is an observation lab where students observe the colors emitted by various metal ions in salt solutions.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Sylvia Hoffstrom
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Floating Foods and Underwater Eruptions: An Exploration of Density
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Floating Foods and Underwater Eruptions: An Exploration of Density
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This is a classroom lab where students will explore the concept of density by investigating how various solids and liquids interact.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Tony Hartmann
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Floating Metal Pins - Discrepant Event/Guided Inquiry on Surface Tension
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Floating Metal Pins - Discrepant Event/Guided Inquiry on Surface Tension
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This activity is a guided inquiry on surface tension where students design their own lab experiment based on a focus question, make predictions, collect data and compare the outcome with their predictions.

Subject:
Mathematics
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Flow Characteristics of the Crow River
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Flow Characteristics of the Crow River
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This activity is a field investigation where students make observations, formulate a question, construct and collect data on that question on stream flow on the Crow River in Central Minnesota

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Hydrology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
David Dziengel
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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The Flow of Energy: Balancing Ecosystems
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The Flow of Energy: Balancing Ecosystems
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This activity is a guided inquiry by students into balancing ecosystems through food chains and webs.

Subject:
Ecology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Bill Dent
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Fluids in Motion: Introduction to Bernoulli
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Fluids in Motion: Introduction to Bernoulli
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This is an in-class activity that helps introduce the idea of Bernoulli's Principle and fluid of motion. Based on original activity from Adrienne Evans.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Alison Stortz
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Foiled Again! Using Macroscale Measurements to Determine Microscale Quantities
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Foiled Again! Using Macroscale Measurements to Determine Microscale Quantities
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This activity is a guided inquiry activity where students take simple measurements and use unit analysis to determine the thickness of a sheet of aluminum foil, the volume of an aluminum atom, and the radius of an aluminum atom.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jim Dahlman
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant
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Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant
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In these life science activities, students will participate in field observations of living things & do research of animals they observe to create a food chain & present it to the class. Students will participate in a food web simulation game.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jane Schaffran
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Food Web and Chains Activity using Differentiated Tiering by Level of Challenge and Complexity
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Food Web and Chains Activity using Differentiated Tiering by Level of Challenge and Complexity
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By using this tiered assignment students at different levels are able to review characteristics of living things by either creating a food web or food chart.

Subject:
Ecology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Leah Ol
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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