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Archimedes Meets Silver Dollar City

This unit follows constructivist learning strategies using the 5E Learning Cycle and the Essential Nine by Marzano. The students will use various activities to identify simple and compound machines. The final activity is conducted at Silver Dollar City where they choose a ride or a craft booth and identify and analyze the simple or compound machines used.

Roller Coaster Energy

Students will learn about energy and work in this unit including calculation to show the law of conservation of energy.

Lab Safety

This unit teaches safety in the science lab through recall, analyzation, and illustration.

Cancer and the Cell Cycle

Identify the phase of the cell cycle when looking at diagrams of cells or cells in different phases. Analyze the cell cycle and explain the major events that occur within the cell during the cell cycle. Explain the control or preventative mechanisms in cells that prevent cancer from occurring.

Explorer Probe

Elements and compounds have unique physical and chemical properties.

Using Momentum and Impulse to Prevent Injury

Students apply momentum and impulse concepts to real-world safety devices that protect people and property during collisions. Students will calculate the momentum and momentum change (impulse) of an object of their choosing during a collision. Students will also describe how safety devices (such as airbags, seatbelts, bumpers, crash barriers, etc.) reduce forces by lengthening the duration over which a collision occurs.

DINO Project

After completing this lesson, students will be able to demonstrate the importance of rock, fossil and prehistoric evidence in determining geological timelines.

Scientist Lesson

The students will have to identify how the advances brought on by these scientists have changed society for better or worse. They can successfully convey to their peers why the contributions from their scientist/inventor is either helpful or harmful to society. They will have to be able to do this using the technology provided.

Watershed

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the size of the watershed areas are for our water district, and how the actions of citizens in the area can affect the quality and supply of water.

A Trip Around the Solar System

After students investigate the eight planets, research their characteristics and examine their distance from the sun, etc., they will construct a model of one of the planets and put together a PowerPoint presentation. After the group presentations, they will attempt to create a planet that will sustain life by choosing the proper combination of characteristics on an interactive activity on a NASA sponsored web site.