Twenty 10-minute lessons
Produced 1996
School use rights: 1 year
Grades 6-9 / Science, Technology
Teachers Guide
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Inquiring Minds is a resource that will increase your students' understanding of essential science content by examining mysteries outside the classroom. Middle school science concepts such as energy, motion and forces are explored through their relevance to phenomena in our everyday world. Building on the knowledge that students already have about each topic, programs will stimulate students' natural curiosity.
Inquiring Minds I
1. Why is the Sky Blue?
2. How Do People Survive Lightning Strikes?
3. Why Does Breathing Helium Make Your Voice So High?
4. Why Don't Satellites Fall Out of the Sky?
5. How Does the Dry Cleaning Process Work?
6. Why Are Hurricanes Seasonal?
7. Why Do Voices Sound Different on Recorders?
8. How Do Astronauts Land on the Moon?
9. Why Do High and Low Pressure Systems Bring Good and Bad Weather?
10. Why Do Some Rock Concerts Sound So Bad?
Block Feed 10/8
Inquiring Minds II
11. How Do "No Tears" Shampoos Work?
12. How Do Artificial Flavors Fool Our Taste Buds?
13. How is Snow Manufactured?
14. How Are Athletes Timed in a Race?
15. How Do Bulletproof Vests Work?
16. Why Do Some People Wear Glasses?
17. Why is the Ocean Salty?
18. What Are the Pros and Cons of Being a Vegetarian?
19. How Do We Determine the Age of Dinosaur Bones?
20. Why is Gold So Valuable?
Block Feeds 10/8 & 10/9
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