Students are introduced to the concepts of stress and strain with examples that illustrate the characteristics and importance of these forces in our everyday lives. They explore the factors that affect stress, why engineers need to know about it, and the ways engineers describe the strength of materials. In an associated literacy activity, while learning about the stages of group formation, group dynamics and team member roles, students discover how collective action can alleviate personal feelings of stress and tension.

In this activity students add and subtract log distances on their Log Tapes to discover that the corresponding numbers multiply and divide. This will lead them to an experiential understanding of the laws of logarithms.åÊThis is activity B2 in the "Far Out Math" educator's guide. Lessons in the guide include activities in which students measure,compare quantities as orders of magnitude, become familiar with scientific notation, and develop an understanding of exponents and logarithms using examples from NASA's GLAST mission. These are skills needed to understand the very large and very small quantities characteristic of astronomical observations. Note: In 2008, GLAST was renamed Fermi, for the physicist Enrico Fermi.

Students generally do not know the complexity that goes into building and programming a robotic arm. In actuality, creating such an arm comes from a design that involves mechanical, electrical, and computer science engineers. This activity allows students to control a robotic arm from both a machine's and a computer science engineer's perspective by letting them perform a simple task with a few entertaining instructions and constraints.

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To introduce the two types of stress that materials undergo compression and tension students examine compressive and tensile forces and learn about bridges and skyscrapers. They construct their own building structure using marshmallows and spaghetti to see which structure can hold the most weight. In an associated literacy activity, students explore the psychological concepts of stress and stress management, and complete a writing activity.

This is a Zuni play about an ant in the search to find out who is strongest of all. The ant talks with numerous characters to find out who is the strongest. At the end, he learns the lesson that everything is stronger than something else.

In this lesson the students will learn how the heart functions. Students will be introduced to the concept of action potential generation. The lesson will explain how action potential generation causes the electrical current that causes muscle contraction in the heart. Students will be introduced to the basic electrical signal generated by the heart; P, QRS, and T waves. The lesson will approach the heart from an engineering standpoint and encourage students to design ways to improve heart function. Students will also learn the basic steps of the engineering design process.

These short videos (about 5 minutes on average) teach all about how words and reading works!

There are videos for:
*Phonemic awareness
*Syllable types
*Blending words
*Grammar skills
*Vocabulary
*Story elements

I suggest you click "playlists" as well to find playlists for: fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, syllable types, etc.

This is an activity about the Kp index, a quantification of fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field due to the relative strength of a magnetic storm. Learners will take a reading from a magnetometer site and make a Kp index estimate to predict whether or not an aurora display will occur near that site. This resource is designed to support student analysis of THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) Magnetometer line-plot data. This activity requires the use of a computer with Internet access. This is activity 18 in Exploring Magnetism: Earth‰Ûªs Magnetic Personality.

This hands-on project is an impactful way to show students how truly immense our solar system is! You get to decide if you want your model to show scale planet sizes or the scale distances between planets. You can combine a planet-size model of one scale with a distance model of another scale. But if you want size and distance to be the same scale, you’ll need to spread your model across at least half a mile!
Specific directions on how to calculate size/distance scales are included.

Teachers and students at Loreburn have been developing and implementing a Guided Math course in the Elementary and Middle years. This was to address the issues of students’ gaps in knowledge and skill as they progressed. In addressing this issue, teachers have used the same philosophy of student responsibility and mastery to guide students to show their higher level thinking by creating outlines and creating lessons on Smartnotebook, Educreations and Explain Everything. Students have a specific guideline and template to follow but have total control of what outcomes they wish to create lessons for and how they want to show and demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

Les jeunes artistes peuvent réaliser des projets étape par étape, apprécier des oeuvres d'art contemporain, pratiquer des techniques variées, explorer des thématiques de l'art de Riopelle, et exposer leurs propres créations dans la Galerie Rio!

« Le Studio Riopelle a été mis sur pied dans le cadre des célébrations du centenaire de Jean Paul Riopelle en tant que programme éducatif.
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La création de la Fondation Jean Paul Riopelle a été inspirée par le rêve de l’artiste, qui souhaitait transmettre sa passion pour l’art, sa vision, et insuffler aux prochaines générations d’artistes le désir d’explorer, d’innover et de surpasser leur potentiel créatif. »

« Chaque projet comporte une multitude de ressources qui peuvent être exploitées de façon granulaire, c’est-à-dire par petits éléments indépendants. Ainsi, on peut utiliser une vidéo, une technique, une œuvre ou une autre ressource de façon autonome selon les besoins. »

This is a lesson about the electromagnetic spectrum. Learners begin by arranging a set of picture cards; in the discussion afterwards, this activity is related to the electromagnetic spectrum as an arrangement of energy waves. Next, using a clothesline to model a logarithmic scale, they add in the electromagnetic spectrum. Finally, learners conduct several simple tests to detect other types of radiation. This activity requires access to a sunny outdoor location and the use of ultraviolet light-sensitive beads.

In this activity about spectroscopy, learners build a spectroscope, learn about graphing spectra, and then identify elements in gas tubes using their spectra. The activity concludes as learners graph the spectra of different materials. Essential materials required for this activity include spectrum light tubes, the power source for spectrum light tubes, and diffraction grating material.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about multi-step subtraction of weights with compound units (metric units) - word problems.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about subtracting compound units in years and months.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of conversion between units of weight (english units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of subtraction (numbers to 100).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about finding the different weight from tables (metric units).

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about subtracting 3 numbers - word problems.