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Green Tools and Toys In this task, students will learn about electricity and magnetism and then work in groups to create new types of environmentally friendly electrically-powered tools and toys. This task includes: |
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Half-Ball In this task, students will be examining how a ball and half-ball relate to Newton's Laws of Motion and the Law of Conservation of Energy. This task includes: |
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Heat Retention This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the knowledge of Heat Transfer. Students must test, measure, and graph their findings to determine which of four substances would be the best as a heat mass. This task includes: |
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Heating Crystals In this task, students will experiment with and observe the effects of heating various crystals. This task includes: |
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Heating Crystals In this task, students will examine how heat effects crystals. This task includes: |
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Height of Bounce This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the knowledge of Motions and Forces. Students must determine a relationship between the height at which a ping pong ball bounces and the height from which it was dropped. This task includes: |
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Hooke's Law This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on Motion and Forces. Students must design and test an experiment that focuses on Hooke's Law, which has to do with the relationship between force on a spring and its stretch. This task includes: |
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Hydrated Salt This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on Chemical Reactions. Students must design and test an experiment that will determine an empirical formula for a hydrated salt that will reveal when the moisture has completely left the sodium crystals. This task includes: |
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I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet In this task, students will create a presentation based on their research of plate tectonics and how they structure our planet. This task includes: |
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Ice Cold In this task, students will explore how salt effects ice and determine if there are some salts that work better for melting. This task includes: |
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