Students explore the basic magnetic properties of different substances, particularly aluminum and steel. There is a common misconception that magnets attract all metals, largely due to the ubiquity of steel in metal products. The activity provides students the chance to predict, whether or not a magnet will attract specific items and then test their predictions. Ultimately, students should arrive at the conclusion that iron (and nickel if available) is the only magnetic metal.

This is a lesson plan for an activity to introduce several terms scientists use to discuss Earth's magnetic field. Learners will explore a website, read about the main features and regions of the Earth's magnetosphere and its functioning within the Sun-Earth system, and compile a lab book in which to keep notes about Earth's magnetosphere, space weather, and magnetometer data. This resource is Activity 12 of Exploring Magnetism: Magnetic Mysteries of the Aurora.

In this activity, students will learn about the Richter Scale for measuring earthquakes. The students will make a booklet with drawings that represent each rating of the Richter Scale.

La grand-mère de Torill Kove lui racontait souvent des histoires. L'une en particulier tournait autour du repassage des chemises du roi de Norvège. Et si ce détail insolite n'était que la pointe de l'iceberg? Peut-être avait-elle travaillé secrètement dans la résistance norvégienne...? ou avait-elle même pris la tête d'un mouvement de guérilla d'un genre nouveau! Tissant l'intrigue à partir de faits personnels, Torill Kove suit le fil d'une histoire familiale, qu'elle enjolive en chemin avec beaucoup de drôlerie. Elle rend de façon inventive la vie et le travail de sa grand-mère à Oslo, particulièrement pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Elle mêle avec brio et imagination les contes qu'elle lui racontait avec les événements historiques et la fantaisie et montre comment un épisode de la vie familiale peut atteindre au mythe.

This art history video discussion examines Rene Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), 1929 (LACMA).

Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.

Over the past 40 years, some lobstermen in South Thomaston, Maine, say that they could "set their watches” by the start of the lobster shedding event each season. In 2012, though, extreme warm ocean temperatures—an ocean heat wave—combined with early and repeated lobster shedding. The obvious changes in lobsters during this event galvanized many lobstermen to take the impacts of climate change seriously.

This week we introduce sociology’s three major theoretical paradigms, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of each paradigm.

The purpose of this task is for students to find different pairs of numbers that sum to 9.

"Brush Ninja is a free tool for creating animated GIFs. Unlike some similar tools, Brush Ninja works equally well in the web browser on a Chromebook, Windows or Mac laptop, iPads, Android tablets, and iOS and Android phones.

To make an animated GIF on Brush Ninja simply go to the website and start drawing on the blank scene editor. You can draw as many scenes as you like in Brush Ninja. When you have drawn all of the scenes for your animation press the play button to preview your animation. If you are happy with your animation, you can download it by clicking the export option. If you don't like a part of your animation, you can go back and edit any of the scenes that you need to adjust. Watch my video that is embedded below to see the whole process in action." (Richard Byrne)

The site includes a link to the application as well as a video to explain how to use it.

This is an introductory course to computer science using micro:bits as the physical tool, and MakeCode as the language. The course covers basic computer programming commands like variables and loops. It also incorporates elements of design thinking, making and problem solving to work towards the completion of tasks and activities. The course takes about 4 weeks to complete with regular work, (1 week on lessons and 3 weeks on the final project). It is recommended for grades 6-8.

Create a realistic text exchange between two characters in a novel, or use texts to explain a difficult concept.

You can use this site to create fake text conversations!

A tutorial on how to use the site is on the bottom of the page near the left.

"Kindness in the Classroom® is a CASEL approved, highly effective, evidence-based, social emotional learning curriculum used all over the world, with focuses on equity, teacher self-care, digital citizenship and kindness.

Science Videos, Cool Facts, Educational PPT's, Jokes For Kids, Tests & Quizzes for Kids K-7.

In this activity, students use their own creativity (and their bodies) to make longitudinal and transverse waves. Through the use of common items, they will investigate the different between longitudinal and transverse waves.

How to adjust where the start and end position for a servo motor inside a Servo Sock.

Analog meters are all around us!. They are used to visually represent measurements and data. One of the most common analog meters is the fuel needle in a car. This converts a reading of the fuel level in the tank to an empty to full reading on the meter.

In this build, we will use one servo to build an electronically controlled meter. We will first simply use the knob on the control the board to move the needle converting the knob position to movement of the needle. Then, a sound sensor will be connected to convert sound level (ie music) to a meter reading. This will make it what is commonly known as a “VU-meter”

SKILLS + GOALS
Carpentry
- Use of basic tools and hardware
Construction
- Following visual assembly instructions
Code
- Understand math/code behind converting input readings to output readings (meter)
& more!

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Welcome to Make Stuff Move coding lessons. This first lesson is going to show you how to set the colour and brightness of the pixel and turn it on, on our Make Stuff Move animate shield.

Welcome to another Make Stuff Move coding lesson. This second lesson is going to show you how to move a servo using the knob on your animate shield.