Lesson Plan
Trash For Teaching

The Light-House Project

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Groups work together to design a lighthouse, from designing and drawing the wiring diagram, to creating prototypes of the switch and circuit, to envisioning and building a scale model along with a blueprint. By including different...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Symmetrical Snowflakes

For Teachers 1st
First graders, exploring lines of symmetry, follow directions to create a symmetrical snowflake from their own homemade icing. As a class, they discuss lines of symmetry and determine if specific shapes are symmetrical. After the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Integration by Parts

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore integration by parts and use it to solve equations. In this calculus lesson, students sing a song about integration, and practice solving equations using integration by parts twice. They solve integrals and discuss when...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Does Santa Claus use the Coriolis Force to Travel East?

For Teachers K - 9th
Young scholars are given a visual demonstration of the Coriolis Force in the Northern Hemisphere. They are encouraged to find locations around the globe and try to predict what the weather circulation patterns might be like.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Logs of Straw: Dendocronology

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars investigate the age of trees by analyzing tree rings.  In this dendocronology instructional activity, students examine sample images of tree rings and identify their age by the amount of rings.  Young scholars...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Farm Animal Friends

For Teachers All
Students apply basic communication and math skills to situations. They apply prior knowledge to list characteristics of different animals. They listen to music to engage multiple senses. Then images of animals are shared with them to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mine Is! Is Yours?

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a lesson plan which teaches the concept of symmetry through the use of letters in the student's name. They use a piece of yarn to see if they can make symmetrical pieces out of their own names.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Heating Up!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders measure the heat created at each center.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chinese New Year

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the culture and celebrations associated with Chinese New Year in this unit of lessons
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lights On!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work together to build their own simple circuits. They discover how electricity is conducted through light bulbs. They compare and contrast the differences beween a parallel and series circuit.

Other popular searches