Transforming Education
Self-Efficacy Toolkit
A PowerPoint presentation prepares instructors for teaching learners about self-efficacy, a key competency of social-emotional learning. The 29-page presentation is designed to give administrators and teachers a deeper understanding of...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Making Observations and Drawings
This lesson will help students develop their scientific observation skills and encourages students to make detailed observations. They will draw and describe insect specimens so another classmate can identify it.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Observing Physical and Cultural Landscapes
In this lesson, students examine photographs of Europe as they learn to distinguish between physical and cultural characteristics of a landscape, and make observations and inferences about the places and people in the photographs. They...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Webcams in the Classroom: Animal Inquiry and Observation
Observe animal behavior patterns and their habitats using one of the many webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world in this inquiry-based activity that focuses on observation logs, class...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Making Observations About Capacity Metric Units
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice finding capacity using metric units.
Other
Edu Media: 2. Make Observations at Different Times of Year
Choose from four animations that show why the amount of daylight is different throughout the year. Topics include the seasons, the sun's apparent path, and days and nights over the year.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Making Observations and Inferences Test
A test with four multiple choice questions over inferencing, quantitative observation, and qualitative observation.
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PBS
Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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PBS
Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Making a Water Cycle
In this lesson students are required to observe a simple model of the water cycle constructed of sand and ice in a plastic shoe box.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Make Your Own Weather Station
Students can plan and carry out investigations of local weather patterns by building their own weather stations to collect observations of various weather conditions: rainfall, wind direction, and air pressure.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Making Motion Graphs With Toys
Intended for the beginning lessons in derivative and function graphs, this activity uses motion detectors and battery operated toy cars to generate constant velocity graphs on a TI-83/84. Then students take a free-wheeling car and roll...
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 17: Observing Plants Through a Journal
This lesson engages students in learning about plant growth. Students will observe changes in a growing plant and then will write in their discovery journals to write observations and hypotheses about the plant growth. Students will also...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Which Plant Part? [Pdf]
A lesson in observing a plant or plant community in different seasons for the purposes of recording observable changes.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Chaco Canyon: Observation: Make Your Own Petroglyph!
This lesson scratches at the surface of early forms of written communication and teaches readers how to make their own petroglyph.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Making Observations and Inferences: Match
Play this match game with four vocabulary terms and definitions over making observations.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Making and Breaking Bonds
A look at the processes of association and dissociation in chemical bonding. Observe simulations that show the influence of temperature on making and breaking of bonds, how diatomic molecules form, and what determines the speed of...
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Make a Rainbow
Make a rainbow by changing angles and placement of the observer, the sun, and the rain.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Make a Tornado
Students explore factors that influence why certain areas in the United States have more tornadoes than others and observe a model to visualize what is happening during a tornado.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Elementary Globe: To Spread or Not to Spread
Students will explore the difference between the three types of contrails. Then they will make observations of contrails outside, record their observations, and then make follow-up observations 15 minutes later to see how the contrails...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Alma's Way: Neighborhood Notebook
As Alma explores, she appreciates all the great things about her neighborhood. How can we make observations and celebrate our communities? Students will use a printable Alma's Way My Neighborhood Notebook to observe the people, places,...
Other
Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: How's the Weather? [Pdf]
Students make their own weather station by using homemade version of real weather measurement equipment and use their equipment to make observations and predictions about the local weather.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigation of a Mealworm
A lab activity where students make observations about mealworms to form questions and decide what direction their investigation will take. While studying mealworms, students will choose a variable to change to observe changes to the...
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