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Word Wall "Active-ities"
Students build word walls using a variety of fun games and activities.
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Glaciers of Canada
Students examine photos, a poster, maps and an article series by National Geographic to determine characteristics of glaciers and the process of glaciation. They both answer guided questions and develop their own questions about the...
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Signal Transmission in the Nervous System
Young scholars determine the speed of nervous transmission in an integrated nervous system. Students understand the differences between signal transmission in a single neuron and in a nervous system. Young scholars create a little group...
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Show 303: New Research into Dyslexia
Students explore the causes of dyslexia. They view CT sans and MRIs to view the brain and how it responds. Students read reports about dyslexia. They discuss the nature of dyslexia, its cause, how to diagnose it, and its permanency.
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Globalization
In this globalization worksheet, students, with a partner, discuss and complete a variety of activities associated with global warning and phrases connected to it.
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Listen To Your Heart Beat
Young scholars listen to their heart beats. In this biology lesson plan, students explore pulse rates and factors that cause them to change. Young scholars also construct both a graph to show variation in pulse rates and a simple...
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From Vibration to Sound
Young scholars observe a series of demonstrations to illustrate wave movement. In this sound wave instructional activity, students witness how objects create waves when dropped in a dish of water, use a rope and slinky to produce...
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Guess What?!
Students explore how scientists work. In this scientific method lesson, students use their senses to identify objects they cannot see. Students are asked to think like scientists and make observations, comparisons, and interferences, as...
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Hidden Values
Students split geode rocks to see that they are beautiful inside. In this geodes lesson plan, students split the geodes and talk about how they have beautiful insides just like people, even if the outsides aren't that pretty.
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This One is for the Birds
Middle schoolers create a bird feeder to form their technological skills and create a better bond with nature. In this nature lesson plan, students use websites, technology, brainstorm ideas, and build models.
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Gulf Oil Spill:What Happened, and Who is Responsible?
Students investigate the Gulf Oil Spill. In this environmental issues activity, students watch video clips about the oil spill and discuss the devastation caused by the spill as well as who is responsible. Students also consider how many...
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What Do We Mean by "Living Things"?
Students discuss the characteristics of life. In this living things lesson students complete a lab while working in groups. Students examine different organisms and create a poster to present to the class.
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Lesson 2-Explore/Explain Sound Communication
Students watch and listen to human speech and explore visual and audio cues that aid their understanding. During a short walk, students listen to the sounds around them and classify them as environmental, voiced, or musical.
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The Wind-Up and the Pitch
Students consider how sound affects one's experience at a ballpark and the ways that the acoustics at a baseball stadium might be improved. Students then recommend their own designs for a "soundly built" baseball stadium.
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Using Weather Reports In The LCTL Classroom
Students use authentic weather reports in order to investigate the processes involved in the creation of types of weather. They practice using key words for vocabulary. Then students analyze the weather reports and convey the information...
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Visual Learning: A Slow, Press-ious Process
Students observe a photograph and make inferences. In this investigative lesson students study how to find facts in pictures and draw inferences from them.
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Rain Gardens for Controlling Excess Runoff
Students address the idea that human beings live within the world' ecosystems. They discuss how humans modify ecosystems as a result of population growth, technology, and consumption. Students discuss how the human destruction of...
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Learning About Weather
Students decide what type of weather they would like to write about such as tornadoes, hurricanes, snow, hail, floods, or another type of weather.
Then, they look up the information and jot down notes about that particular subject....
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OK...Just Whose Water Is It, Anyway?
Students recognize that each person has a right to clean, safe drinking water. They explain that changes in behavior may be necessary when considering water usage. They role play a water rights courtoom dispute.
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Echo Location
Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
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Crazy Crazy Bones
Students practice labeling the bones of a human skeleton. Students reword the song "Dry Bones" with the accurate names of the bones listed.
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Local and Global Impacts
Students conduct an interview with Dr. Hajo Eicken to discuss local and global impacts. They hold an audio conference to ask about characteristics of the Arctic environment, climate, climate change, the greenhouse effect and global...
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Parasites: Our Tiny Companions
Young scholars consider parasites that seek human hosts. They prepare nutrient agar plates and cultivate samples of bacteria taken from their own bodies. They experiment with disinfectants and soaps to determine which method kills the...
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Wilderness
Students examine the wilderness of New England. They create in their journals what they believe wilderness is.