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Nasco currently offers a wide variety of products and ideas to help you teach students about biology, chemistry,
and physics. A FREE lesson plan is available for many of these products and can be downloaded for your use. Feel free to download the PDF and print them.
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Animal Track Adventures |
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Make plaster-of-Paris animal tracks from real animal molds to study natural diversity and adaptation. (Lesson plan from Mike Mansour's in-booth demonstration at NSTA 2008) |
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Cavendish Gravitational Balance |
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Demonstrate the existence of gravitational forces between masses, measure the Universal Gravitational Constant, verify the Inverse Square Law for gravitational forces. (Hands-on activities from Dr. Martin Taylor’s Workshop at Texas CAST Conference.) |
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| Chemistry |
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| Students will predict whether various household products (consumable and nonconsumable) are acidic or basic and test predictions
with homemade litmus paper |
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| Completing The Circuit |
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| To build a circuit tester using problem solving skills. Students will be able to think about a variety of ways to use circuit
testers as well as developing skills to check their circuits for troubleshooting. |
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| Current Electricity |
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| "Closed" and "Open" electrical circuits direction of electron flow |
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| Egg Observations |
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| An osmosis eggsperiment |
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| Evaporation Experiment |
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| To determine evaporation affects the mass measurement of a given object. |
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Free Fall Apparatus |
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Calculate the average time and the acceleration due to gravity. (Hands-on activities from Dr. Martin Taylor’s Workshop at Texas CAST Conference.) |
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Green Light Laser Pointer |
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Conduct ray optics experiments; ray paths, refr/action, reflection, flare, internal reflection. (Hands-on activities from Dr. Martin Taylor’s Workshop at Texas CAST Conference.) |
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| Heat |
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| Factors that affect the quantity of heat that a material contains |
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Inertia Demonstrator |
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Illustrate the effects of acceleration, force, inertia, friction. (Hands-on activities from Dr. Martin Taylor’s Workshop at Texas CAST Conference.) |
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| Light |
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| How we see opaque and transparent objects |
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| Magnetism |
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| Quick quiz on magnets and magnetic materials |
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Optical Bench Set |
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Experiment with magnification of a real image formed by a convex lens, the phenomenon of parallax, and the terrestrial (refracting) telescope. (Hands-on activities from Dr. Martin Taylor’s Workshop at Texas CAST Conference.) |
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Refraction Tank with Laser |
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Explore reflection and refr/action. (Hands-on activities from Dr. Martin Taylor’s Workshop at Texas CAST Conference.) |
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| Sound |
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| The velocity of sound |
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The Burning Question |
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| A Conservation of Matter Experiment |
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| Thatsa Pasta! |
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| A delicious density experiment |
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| The Sun, The Energy Source For Weather |
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| Characteristics of the earth responsible for changes in weather |
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| What Is The Matter |
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| To determine what type of material each cube is made of through the investigation of volume, mass, and density. |
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| Who's Hoo - An Owl Pellet Comparison Activity |
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| Students will be able to identify an owl's prey by analyzing the size, weight and contents of various pellets. |
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