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Green Roof PowerPoint
16 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Bryan Hubbard, James Daniel Lehman
PowerPoint slides from the green roof design task during the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.
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Graphic Organizers PowerPoint
29 Jun 2017 | Contributor(s): Nikki Rumpler, James Daniel Lehman, Stacy VanDerWeele
This PowerPoint presentation accompanied the session on graphic organizers at the SLED summer workshops in 2017.
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Getting Started with SLED
30 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
This short guide for teachers and school administrators provides basic information for how to get started using SLED materials for integrating engineering design in elementary science teaching and learning.
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Generating Evidence to Improve Practice
23 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman
PowerPoint slides for mini-workshop on Generating Evidence to Improve Practice.
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Follow-Up: Introduction to Data Visualization with Excel
11 Jan 2012 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
This narrated PowerPoint presentation introduces this SLED online follow-up activity on using Excel to create various kinds of graphs or charts to visualize a data set.
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Follow-Up: Creating a Scatterplot in Excel
11 Jan 2012 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
This narrated video shows how to create a scatterplot or XY graph in Excel using data from the measurement of the circumference and diameter of various circular objects.
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Follow-Up: Creating a Pie Chart in Excel
11 Jan 2012 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
This narrated video shows how to create a pie chart in Excel using data about a set of coins that can help with concepts of probability.
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Follow-Up: Creating a Line Graph in Excel
11 Jan 2012 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
This narrated video shows how to create a line graph in Excel using data from measurements of the shadow cast by a stick at various times throughout one day.
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Follow-Up: Creating a Bar Graph in Excel
11 Jan 2012 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
This narrated video shows how to create a bar graph in Excel with data from the M&M activity.
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Exploring Whirligigs
09 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman
This inquiry lesson, for grades 3-4, involves students conducting a fair test investigation to determine the way an object (a whirligig) falls through the air and how this fall depends on its mass, surface area, and other factors. This lesson is an adaptation of a lesson developed by...
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Exploring Packaging Design PowerPoint
23 May 2011 | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman
PowerPoint slides for Exploring Packaging Design activity from teacher orientation.Brenda Capobianco
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Erosion Lesson (Canal) PowerPoint
10 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, David C Eichinger, James Daniel Lehman
PowerPoint slides for the erosion lesson associated with the canal design task from the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.
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Engineering Design Assessment PowerPoint
29 Jun 2017 | Contributor(s): Colleen Cooper, James Daniel Lehman, Aaron Hamilton
This PowerPoint presentation accompanied the session on engineering design assessment at the SLED summer workshops in 2017.
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Electricity PowerPoint for Light Just Right
13 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
These PowerPoint slides accompany the Light Just Right design lesson.
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Earthen Dam PowerPoint
10 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, David C Eichinger, James Daniel Lehman
PowerPoint slides for Earthen Dam activity during the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.
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Earthen Dam Design Task
03 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, James Daniel Lehman
This grade 3 design task focuses on earth materials and the construction of an earthen dam.
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Drink Pouch
11 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Bryan Hubbard, Alyssa Panitch, Kari Clase, Tahira Reid, Nancy Irene Tyrie, James Daniel Lehman
This 3rd grade design activity is focused on creating a drink pouch that can keep a drink cool in the hot sun.
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Dog gone it!
08 Jun 2015 | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, Todd Richard Kelley, Chell Nyquist, James Daniel Lehman
This design challenge, for students in grade 3, focuses on simple and compound machines. The objective of the challenge is to design a compound machine to help a large breed of dog to get into and out of the back of a car.
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Designing Safer Roadways Support Materials
03 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Kendra A Erk, James Daniel Lehman
These materials are intended to support the Designing Safer Roadways design task. The materials include videos of successful and unsuccessful trials as well as a PowerPoint slide that illustrates the roadway zones.
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Designing Safer Roadways Slides
11 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Kendra A Erk, James Daniel Lehman
PowerPoint slides for the Designing Safer Roadways activity in the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.
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Designing Safer Roadways
03 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Kendra A Erk, James Daniel Lehman
This grade 4 design task focuses on forces, motion, and transportation systems by challenging students to design a roadway that will slow and then stop vehicles from running off the road.
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Designing Professional Development Template
08 Jun 2015 | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman
This template is for SLED teachers to design professional development experiences for other teachers. It was developed for use during the 2015 summer institute.
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Design Team Developed: Reasons for Seasons
30 Nov 2012 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
The Reasons for Seasons lesson, designed to meet 5th grade standards, addresses an important science concept involving the movements of the Earth around the Sun and the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis.
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Design Team Developed: Plastic Water Bottle Design
30 Nov 2012 | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
This lesson plan, intended for grade 6, focuses on using mathematics to design the shape of a plastic water bottle to optimize the surface area to volume ratio and so reduce the amount of plastic used to make the bottles.
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Design Team Developed: Compost Bin Lesson Plan
05 Apr 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman
SLED project lesson plan for compost bin design task.