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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 4
For this sight words worksheet, students participate in a sight word bingo game where they match up the sight words away, blue, come, down, funny, jump, make, play, three and two to sentence strips on a game board.
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The Last Total Solar Eclipse...Ever!
In this total solar eclipse worksheet, students solve 7 problems about the angular size of the moon, the distance the sun and moon should be to match in diameter, the number of years it will take for the moon to be at a certain distance...
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Asteroids!
Students explore how to visually identify asteroids in SDSS images. They are able to explain that stars are so far away that they do not appear to move, even over the course of a human lifespan. Students identify the location of most...
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Molehill or Mountain
Students explore the concept of waste management. In this environmental stewardship activity, students consider the trash generated by people per day and discuss what steps they can personally take to reduce waste.
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Butterfly Pavilion
Students learn about butterflies through books and observation in a butterfly pavilion. In this butterfly pavilion lesson, students use hand lenses to observe the metamorphosis of the butterfly and record in their journals. Students feed...
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Triangulation Experiment
In this triangulation worksheet, students solve and complete 11 steps of an experiment to determine the distance to a far away object using triangulation and trigonometry. First, they select a far away object and create a baseline far...
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Phases of the Moon
Learners explore why when you examine the moon depends on its location in relationship to the sun and Earth. The moon never goes away or changes shape-we just see a different fraction of sunlight being reflected from the moon to Earth.
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Topos, Compasses, and Triangles, Oh My!
Learners triangulate using a compass, topographical (topo) map and a view of outside landmarks. They take a field trip to another location away from school and mark discernible landmarks (like mountains or radio towers) and changes in...
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What's Her Story?
Students research Lady Liberty and her history. Students research why this female symbol is so important to our country. Students tie in Lady Liberty to their own freedoms that many of them take for granted. Students discuss how they...
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Magnetic Forces and Kinetic Energy
In this magnetic forces and kinetic energy activity, students use the formula that relates the speed of an electron in a plasma cloud to its energy to find the speed of 6 different plasma cloud electrons. They answer 5 questions that...
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My Tree Observations
For this tree observation worksheet, students pick a tree that they observe over the course of a school year. They make observations, they sketch the tree, they take photographs of the tree, they get a leaf sample. They estimate the tree...
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It's How You Play the Game
Students assess and explain the qualities that they believe are possessed by great professional athletes. They examine whether or not getting away with breaking a rule in a sport is considered cheating or gamesmanship.
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It's a Gas!
Students investigate gases and their properties by completing 4 activities. In this gases lesson plan, students perform activities to show that gases take up space, they diffuse, and that odors and vibrations pass through gases. They...
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Rainy Day Games And Lessons
Bad weather can be a great reason to take a break from the regular curriculum and learn using the imagination, and games.
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Test Taking Strategies for Teachers and Students
Test taking can be stressful, but using these test taking strategies can be beneficial for both students and teachers.
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Core
Eighth graders take their own "core sample" with clay and/or play-dough and correlate the layers of the earth.
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Exponential Decay
Learners study exponential decay and its application to radiocarbon dating. In this exponential decay lesson plan, students use candy to model the time it takes for something to decay. Learners also graph the data they collect and...
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Safety With animals
Students recognize that they need to take appropriate steps when approached by an unfamiliar animal. In this dog lesson, students identify reasons not to approach an unfamiliar dog. Students learn the steps to take if a dog...
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Weather Observations
Learners record the weather using an outdoor thermometer. In this weather lesson, students compare their recordings to that on the weather map online. Learners explain the differences of each weather reading. Students continues taking...
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Who Took the Cookies
Learners find the missing cookies. In this language arts instructional activity, students solve the mystery of who is taking the cookies from the cookie jar. Learners are read several books with the same mystery of cookies being taken...
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Math in Science-Sound Reasoning
In this basic math skills worksheet, students use division, decimals and multiplication to calculate the speed of sound in water and compare it to the speed in air. They calculate distances sound travels in water and the time it takes...
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Social Studies: Exploring Boston's Big Dig
Students, in a high school class for autistic children, take a virtual tour of Boston's "Big Dig" and the artifacts discovered there. During weekly lab sessions, they discover the processes involved in artifact preservation. Using...
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Digital Mitosis and Claymation
Take mitosis and meiosis out of the biology textbook and onto the screen! An innovative class project prompts young biologists to create an animation movie using clay, showing the phases involved in mitosis or meiosis by...
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100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet
Students examine the possible ways to recycle, reuse, and re-imagine products and objects in order to reduce pollution and waste on our planet. In this 100 things you can do to save the planet instructional activity, students take three...