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Students will examine wind power and learn to hardness it by creating a wind turbine.
- 9–12
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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In this activity, students will investigate how laboratory diagnostics are used in obtaining healthcare information.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will compare samples of monomers and polymers in powder and thread form (sugar/cotton candy and cotton flock/cotton balls).
- 9–12
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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Students will explore the parts of a sound wave and learn about human reception of sound. Then, they will research and analyze the types of ultrasound before making a claim as to the most beneficial type to human health and well-being.
- 9–12
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Students will explore how satellites send images from telescopes in space, which we can access on Earth via the Internet.
- 9–12
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Students will learn about the concept of low impact development: practices that use or copy natural processes such as absorption or evaporation to protect water quality.
- 9–12
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After learning about the amount of paper that the United States uses every year, students will observe how homemade recycled paper is made. Upon examining the result, students will be challenged to refine this process in order to produce a paper product.
- 9–12
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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Students will investigate the prosthetic industry as they explore the design and functionality of artificial limbs.
- 9–12
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Students work together to build an algorithm for drawing a pixel picture using coordinate directions and color assignments on graph paper. Then, students follow the algorithms of other groups to create the images on a larger scale with post-it notes.
- 9–12
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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Students will learn what causes type I and type II diabetes and investigate what is happening in the body of a person who has diabetes, including the function of the pancreas in insulin production and how insulin allows for glucose to enter cells.
- 9–12
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Students will work in small groups to investigate constraints of starting a business. Each group will be assigned a specific constraint. Small groups will then write a linear inequality and graph the inequality on a group capture sheet.
- 9–12
Funded by The Healthineers Fund of the Siemens Foundation
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Students model how a medication is filtered from the blood using colored water. They make predictions about how much medicine remains in a person’s system over time by comparing their predictions to observed data.
- 9–12
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In this lesson, students will work in teams to design a pair of headphones specifically for children under three.
- 9–12
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In this investigation, students will design three different circuit arrangements with a switch capable of lighting a small light bulb. They will use the results of this investigation to determine the best configuration for wiring holiday lights.
- 9–12
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In this lesson, students will work in teams to create a structure that will withstand simulated hurricane force winds
- 9–12
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In this activity, students will investigate factors that influence the temperature of an isolated system and relate this to average kinetic energy and thermodynamic properties.
- 9–12
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Working in groups, students will select a city and then use U.S. government census data to develop an algebraic relationship between time and population size.
- 9–12
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In this activity, students work in teams to develop a method for creating a mathematical model of the path of a ball. The teams measure the height from which a ball is thrown, and the time taken for the ball to reach the ground.
- 9–12