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STEM Lessons - Model Eliciting Activity
In this Model-Eliciting Activity (MEA), students will look over data and rank locations from the most attractive state to the least attractive state and help their friend's grandparents decide what locations would be the best states to move to, based on their needs and wants. Students will consider the following factors: natural disasters, seasons, landforms, bodies of water, climate zones and yearly precipitation.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought processes. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx
Original Student Tutorials Science - Grades K-8
Learn to identify precipitation as rain, snow, sleet and hail in this interactive tutorial.
Computer Science Original Student Tutorials
Expand your coding skills with Boolean logic as you use the inverter NOT function to make decisions while learning about different biomes.
This is part 1 of 4 in a tutorial series about Boolean logic and biomes.
- Traveling With Boolean Logic Part 1: NOT Gates
- Traveling With Boolean Logic Part 3: OR Gates
- Traveling With Boolean Logic Part 4: NAND and NOR Gates
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Learn about the water cycle's major stages and the importance of the ocean in the water cycle with this Interactive Science Research Page.
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Expand your coding skills with Boolean logic as you use the inverter NOT function to make decisions while learning about different biomes.
This is part 1 of 4 in a tutorial series about Boolean logic and biomes.
- Traveling With Boolean Logic Part 1: NOT Gates
- Traveling With Boolean Logic Part 3: OR Gates
- Traveling With Boolean Logic Part 4: NAND and NOR Gates
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to identify precipitation as rain, snow, sleet and hail in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
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This is an accessible, easy-to-read book about the water cycle. It can be downloaded in Power Point, Impress, or Flash formats. For struggling or non-readers the book can be read aloud in a variety of voices. All of the books on the Tar Heel Reader site can be used with the Intellikeys keyboard with a custom overlay, a touch screen, and 1-3 switches. The text and background colors can be modified for students with visual impairments.
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Precipitation is water that falls from the sky, such as rain or snow. Precipitation can affect your day-to-day life, even though it is just one aspect of the weather. However, precipitation is also vital to the water cycle as it returns water from the atmosphere back to Earth's surface. In this video clip three different types of precipitation are observed - rain, hail, and snow.
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This is an accessible, easy-to-read book about the water cycle. It can be downloaded in Power Point, Impress, or Flash formats. For struggling or non-readers the book can be read aloud in a variety of voices. All of the books on the Tar Heel Reader site can be used with the Intellikeys keyboard with a custom overlay, a touch screen, and 1-3 switches. The text and background colors can be modified for students with visual impairments.
Type: Presentation/Slideshow