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STEM Education in the Middle School Classroom
In this chapter, find out how STEM lessons were first incorporated into a sixth-grade classroom in the Lebanon Special School District, a small commun...
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Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your clothes or your hair? What happened? Perhaps you noticed that the balloon somehow made your hair stand up. May...
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Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
The big idea for an area of study that challenges students year after year but yet is essential to life processes is the relationship between matter a...
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Next Time You See a Maple Seed sample
The Next Time You See books are not meant to present facts to be memorized. They are written to inspire a sense of wonder about nature and foster a de...
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Phenomenon-based learning (PBL) is built on observations of real-world phenomena. PBL is not so much a teaching method as it is a route to grasping th...
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Friction is very common and experienced every day. It is a force that pushes on things and that you notice when two objects’ surfaces are in contact...
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There is always a force between the Earth and other masses. This force is called gravity or gravitation. Gravity affects all objects on Earth. It does...
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Gravity pulls the air molecules toward the ground, and the molecules push on the ground. This pushing is called air pressure or atmospheric pressure. ...
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All electrical gadgets and gizmos need an electric current to work. To make it easier to learn about and make circuits, you will need to know the symb...
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A magnet attracts objects made of iron and this phenomenon called magnetism has many uses. In this chapter, you will explore and experiment with magne...
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Energy is everywhere in several different forms and can be moved from place to place in many ways. In these experiments, you will find out more about ...
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In everyday life we often talk about pressure—high pressure and low pressure. We speak of the pressure in car tires, atmospheric pressure, pressure-...
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Thermodynamics is the physics of heat, mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other. All systems follow the laws of thermodynam...
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Energy is an essential part of all branches of physics. In mechanics, energy appears as both potential and kinetic energy. In this chapter, the experi...
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Color theory is an area of physics that can explain how the appearance of colors changes when colors are mixed, for example on a computer screen or wi...