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Science Questions
Explore the concept of generating questions. Your curious learners choose a scientific question from a bowl and, as they listen to an article being read, they use that question starter to come up with their own questions. Then, they have...
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Community Helpers
Differentiate instruction with a unit focused on community helpers. A pre-assessment levels scholars into three groups. Learning contracts offer participants the choice of activities to complete and show what they know about specific...
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Albert Einstein Word Search
In this Albert Einstein worksheet, students locate ten words that pertain to the discoveries of Albert Einstein in a word search puzzle.
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What Kind of "Person" Would Become a Scientist?
"Scientist Stereotypes" could be another name for this instructional activity! Begin by drawing from middle schoolers' preconceived notions and media portrayal of scientists, and then explain that anyone can be a scientist. Even though...
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This is Your Life
Middle or high-school pupils choose a scientist to research. They collect biographical information and explore their contributions to scientific understanding. With all that they compile, they create a scrapbook of the scientists' life....
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Hippocratic Medical Rounds
A very interesting way to model Hippocrates allows your clas to to compare world views and to illustrate how ideas have changed at key times throughout the history of science. This simulation has students role play patients and physicians.
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Inventing Inventions
Students identify how inventions can be used in different ways. In this inventions lesson students brainstorm different uses as a group and fill out a worksheet.
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Niels Bohr
In this online interactive history quiz worksheet, students respond to 51 multiple choice questions about Niels Bohr. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Albert Einstein
In this online interactive history quiz worksheet, students respond to 50 multiple choice questions about Albert Einstein. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Charles Darwin
In this online interactive history quiz worksheet, students respond to 45 multiple choice questions about the accomplishments of Charles Darwin. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Johannes Kepler
In this online interactive history quiz activity, learners respond to 50 multiple choice questions about the accomplishments of Johannes Kepler. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Influential Scientists Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this science vocabulary instructional activity, students read the names of science professionals. From three choices, students choose the correct definition for each word.
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Influential Scientists Vocabulary Quiz
In this science vocabulary worksheet, learners match the names of 19 science professionals with the definition. Example: Ichthyologist (studies fish).
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If I Could Be An Inventor, I Would Invent...
Students create an invention. In this scientific technology lesson plan, students discuss inventors and how their inventions helped others. Students brainstorm ideas for inventions and their rationale behind it. In small teams, students...
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DNA Scientists
Students navigate through information about scientists who contributed to our understanding of DNA. For this interactive lesson plan, students gain historical understanding of scientists through a web-based timeline. They complete a...
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Literature and the Scientific Method
In this scientific method worksheet, students read a poem and describe how the poem illustrates the importance of observation in the scientific method. This worksheet has 3 short answer questions.
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Scientist/ Webelos Activity Book
In this physical science worksheet, students write short responses for each scientific law in 14 different questions to obtain a merit badge.
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Energy and Energy Resources
In this energy and energy resources worksheet, students complete 14 fill in the blank questions in the form of word scrambles, twisters, and teasers.
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Earth, the Universe, and Culture
Students view segment of documentary, Swift: Eyes Through Time, explore famous scientists, their theories, places of origin, and culture, document scientific viewpoints of famous scientists throughout history, and discuss geographical...
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Meet the Weather Scientist
Fourth graders collect, record and analyze data using simple weather instruments or use weather resources to comprehend weather. They comprehend that scientists are very important people in today's world. Pupils look at cloud types to...
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The Geniacs-Biographies of Genetics Researchers
Students examine the lives and contributions of people who have worked in the fields of genetics and biotechnology. Students work in small groups and read a biography of a person associated with genetics. After filling out a comparison...
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How The Scientists Really Work
Students question the accepted practices of science by scientists and their interactions with technology and society. They devise and conduct appropriate interview procedures for scientists to question their understanding and...
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A Nobel Cause
Students research the lives and accomplishments of Nobel Prize-winning scientists and compose stories about what the world would be like without the accomplishments of these scientists.
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Eyeing the Next Einstein
Students complete a KWL chart on Albert Einstein. After they read an article, they discover more about his iconic status and how future scientists view him. In groups, they create trading cards about Einstein and another scientist of...