Eleventh Grade Projects, Lessons, Activities (315 results)

Do you think you could figure out if two different anonymous messages were written by the same person? What about telling the difference between text written by a human and something written by artificial intelligence (AI)? How about identifying the author of a historical text? Each individual author may have their own personal style, and analyzing text mathematically can help you identify that style. Can you write a computer program that takes a passage of text as input, and calculates the… Read more

Students investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating. They learn how insulation, window placement, thermal mass, surface colors, and site orientation play important roles in passive solar heating. They use this information to design and build their own model houses, and test them for thermal gains and losses during a simulated day and night. Teams compare designs and make suggestions for improvements.Engineering Connection Passive solar heating… Read more

Students learn how astronomers use the transit method to detect exoplanets, by measuring how the brightness of a star changes over time. Animations illustrate how light curves vary for systems with single versus multiple planets, and for planets of different sizes. Students interpret and analyze light curve data from actual exoplanet discoveries, and make connections to Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Read more

This lesson plan enables students to describe a transit and the conditions when a transit may be seen, describe how a planet’s size and distance from its star affects the behavior of transits, and interpret graphs of brightness vs time to deduce information about planet-star systems. Read more

The star TRAPPIST-1 has seven earth-sized rocky planets. Students calculate planet densities, travel time to reach TRAPPIST-1, and how much they would weigh on each planet. Read more