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Challenger
Students investigate acids and bases, rocks and minerals and the use of robots in preparation for their visit to the Challenger Learning Center of Greater Rochester.
To schedule a Challenger Mission, please call 585-249-7063.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 2-3 weeks
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Challenger ELA
ELA companion kit to the Challenger unit. Life on Mars, dust storms on Mars. Asteroids, meteoroids, comets, constellations. International Space Station, islands in space? "Together, Everyone Accomplishes More".
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 4 weeks
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CSI
Using science to solve a mystery.
Suggested Grade Placement: 2-6Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Ecosystems
Students create their own terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and gain an understanding of ecological systems and their interdependence. Live material cards included in this kit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Ecosystems ELA
ELA Companion kit to the Ecosystems unit. Before reading strategies: activate prior knowledge; During reading strategies: become a self-monitoring reader; and After reading strategies: reflect and remember.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Owl Pellets
Students dissect and investigate owl pellets to determine the diet of owls. The concepts of food chains and interdependence are explored.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-6
Scheduling: 4 weeks
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Owl Pellets ELA
ELA Companion kit to the Owl Pellets unit.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-6
Scheduling: 4 weeks
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Reasons for the Seasons - Rotation & Revolution of the Earth (Cycles in the Sky)
Students will understand, demonstrate and explain the concepts of revolution and rotation and how they affect the condition of the planet earth.
For cost and scheduling video conferences, please call 585-249-7063.
Suggested Grade Placement: 3-6
Scheduling: 1 week (kit) - 60 Minutes
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Rocks
A data collection based unit where students investigate rocks and minerals by applying basic field geology skills. Detailed data sheets and assessments.
Suggested Grade Placement: 5-6
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Simple Machines Kit and Video Conference
Students explore 3 simple machines in depth. All simple machines are addressed before students focus on 3 types. Students video conference with our science expert as they experiment with pulleys, levers and inclined planes. To schedule a video conference, please call 585-249-7063 for more information.
Suggested Grade Placement: 4-6
Scheduling: 90 minutes Kit: 1 week
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Waste to Energy
Convert used cooking oils into useful biodiesel
Students can explore how waste materials can be converted into useful products that offer both economic and ecological benefits with a series of hands-on classroom and laboratory activities. Students synthesize biodiesel from both pure and waste cooking oils. Then, they study the energy content of biodiesel by burning fuels using a home-made calorimeter and also examine the pollution caused by different fuels. Students also use hands-on experiments to investigate the properties such as density, viscosity and gelation temperature of different fuels to determine whether they can be used in Rochester winters.
Suggested Grade Placement: Middle School
Scheduling: 6-8 weeks
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Waves & Electronic Radiation
BOCES4Science
In this unit of study, students create and revise their own models of how light travels, is reflected, absorbed and transmitted. Students contrast white light with the light from a laser pointer. Students learn about frequency, wavelength, and the energy of a wave by contrasting the properties of light from a laser with those of the light from a flashlight or a light bulb. Students also integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information than analog signals.
Suggested Grade Placement: Middle School
Scheduling: 10 weeks