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Next Generation Science Standard

In the United States, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) lay out disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts that students should master in preparation for college and careers. Through a project with Achieve, Inc. and the New York Hall of Science, Teachers TryScience is providing a growing set of lessons that reflect some of the shifts in the NGSS, along with resources that will support you in aligning your own lessons to NGSS.

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THINK: The Process of Innovation

Using the THINK app (free for iPad and 10" Android tablets), students will explore how progress is shaped through a common and systematic approach that follows a five-step process of Seeing, Mapping, Understanding, Believing and Acting (SMUBA). Your students will explore the process of innovation and participate in as many as three units, featuring hands-on lessons that will to help them become innovators in their own right and to take actions that can help them become forward-thinking citizens of the world.

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Partner Contributed Chair Lift Challenge Jun 19 2014 Source: IEEE 0 Lesson focuses on unique challenges in transportation engineering, such as devising a method for skiers or hikers to get to the top of a mountain. Students work in teams to design a "chair lift" out of everyday items that can transport a ping pong ball in a chair of their own design from the bottom of a "valley" to the top of a "mountain" along a clothes line or wire without the ball falling out. Students design their chairlift and chair on paper, execute their design, test it, reflect on the challenge, and share their experiences with the class...	Partner Contributed Critical Load Jun 19 2014 Source: IEEE 4 Lesson focuses on issues civil engineers face, including critical load and how to reinforce the design of a structure to hold more weight.	Partner Contributed Electromagnets Nov 02 2015 Source: engineeringgood 0 For students who are physically challenged, experiential learning may be difficult as there are not enough products commercially available that are adapted to their learning needs. The apparatus in this experiment have been specially customised to their level of motor skills. These will enhance the learning experience of the students as they can grasp scientific concepts more easily through hands-on experiential learning, having fun in the process.
Partner Contributed Magnet Tetris Oct 31 2015 Source: engineeringgood 5 For students who are physically challenged, experiential learning may be difficult as there are not enough products commercially available that are adapted to their learning needs. The apparatus in this experiment have been specially customised to their level of motor skills. These will enhance the learning experience of the students as they can grasp scientific concepts more easily through hands-on experiential learning, having fun in the process.	Partner Contributed Magnet Wands Oct 31 2015 Source: engineeringgood 0 For students who are physically challenged, experiential learning may be difficult as there are not enough products commercially available that are adapted to their learning needs. The apparatus in this experiment have been specially customised to their level of motor skills. These will enhance the learning experience of the students as they can grasp scientific concepts more easily through hands-on experiential learning, having fun in the process.	Partner Contributed Shadows Oct 29 2015 Source: engineeringgood 0 For students who are physically challenged, experiential learning may be difficult as there are not enough products commercially available that are adapted to their learning needs. The apparatus in this experiment have been specially customised to their level of motor skills. These will enhance the learning experience of the students as they can grasp scientific concepts more easily through hands-on experiential learning, having fun in the process.
Partner Contributed Shake it Up with Seismographs! Oct 02 2014 Source: IEEE 0 Lesson focuses on exploring how the development of seismographs has helped save lives around the world. Students work in teams to design their own seismograph out of everyday items, and test its ability to record a simulated classroom earthquake. Students evaluate their own seismographs, those of classmate teams, and present findings to the class.	Partner Contributed Trash Talkin' Sep 09 2011 Source: TeachEngineering Digital Library 3.666665 Students collect, categorize, weigh and analyze classroom trash and discuss ways that engineers have helped to reduce solid waste.	Applications on using force in our daily life Mar 20 2014 Source: safaab 0 Summary Information Force –Air pushing force –motion – applications –pulling rope game In this lesson ,student will focuses on the role of the force in our daily life through doing some activities and some games
Archaeology and Erosion May 03 2013 Source: CyArk 2.5 Using 3-D archaeological data, students will build scale models of a Mayan pyramid using sugar cubes. Using the sugar cube pyramids, students will then conduct an experiment on erosion to learn about its effect on archaeological sites. Who said science can't be sweet?	Bridges Jan 05 2012 Source: Tess 3.5 This is a STEM lesson about bridges. Students will use problem solving skills, new knowledge and prior knowledge to design a strong, safe, economical bridge.	Cheerio for the Planets! Jan 05 2012 Source: Irishganesh 5 This lesson is a fun and creative way to compare the diameter of each of the planets (to scale) using Cheerios!
Dave's test/example Jun 19 2015 Source: davejong 0 Test and example	Electrical Liquids Jan 06 2014 Source: krcrowe 4 Students build conductivity testers and identify liquids that can conduct electricity. After building a desalination system to remove the salt from a salt water solution, students use their conductivity testers to determine if they have removed all of the salt.	Energy from Food Apr 20 2011 Source: MDominguez2 4 In this inquiry based lesson, the potato clock is investigated to 'see' how chemical energy in 'food' is transferred into electrochemical energy.
Global Warming: Effects of Rising Sea Levels on Cities May 01 2013 Source: CyArk 0 Using an online, interactive map application created from scientific data, students will observe the potential effect of rising sea levels caused by global warming. Students will then conduct their own experiment to observe what would happen if glacial ice were to melt and how it could affect cities. Students will then locate local cities and famous monuments on the online global warming map and write what could happen to these cities if sea levels were to rise. After the lesson, students will discuss ways that they can help the environment.	How does electricity flow? Designing a strand of lights. Jan 05 2012 Source: Tess 4 In this STEM lesson, students will design a strand of lights that is most efficient. The lesson will be tiered. Students will first construct a simple circuit, then a series circuit with more than one light and later a parallel circuit.	Schmahl Science Workshops: Liquid Nitrogen (LIN) Mar 16 2015 Source: belssw 0 Workshop Description: Liquid Nitrogen is an extremely cold, liquefied gas. It can be used to demonstrate lots of interesting effects from superconductivity to the properties of gases & liquids, and a whole lot more! We use liquid nitrogen to investigate how cold temperatures affect materials. We also discuss the phases of matter and how the Kinetic Theory of Gases models these phases.
Schmahl Science Workshops: Science Rocks and Minerals Do Too! Mar 19 2015 Source: belssw 0 Workshop Description: Students become familiar with minerals and identifying their different properties. This workshop also introduces students to the deductive process where they will use the results of each property test to identify the name of the mineral from an established key. Workshop Summary: Students learn how to identify and classify rocks using the MOH hardness scale, color, texture, and cleavage. Students learn that the properties of rocks and minerals reflect the processes that form them.	The Solar System Feb 12 2014 Source: hesham10370 4 The Nature of Earth as a planet , and the sun with other planets and description for the other celestial bodies of the Solar System like moons,asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites.