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Is It There?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a instructional activity designed to illustrate these concepts using simple materials. They use Science process skills to observe, measure, predict, make inferences, and communicate while completing the activity....
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Quadrat Studies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use quadrats to investigate plants, animals, soils and weather. They answer questions as they fill in each quadrat. They share their information with the class.
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Three Methods of Heat Transfer

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students participate in a variety of experiments designed to illustrate types of heat transfer including conduction, convection and radiation. They complete worksheets as an assessment of the experiments.
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How Does Convection Happen in Our Atmosphere?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils explore convection and how it happens in the earth's atmosphere.
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The Atmosphere and Flight

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate evaporation and condensation, and apply the concepts to understanding cloud formation.
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What is Heat Transfer?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore heat transfer and how it affects weather.
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Reading Weather Maps

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders the symbols that are used on weather maps. They develop five day forecasts based on information they gather from weather maps in the newspaper and on the Internet.
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Outdoor Survival

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students are introduced to basic outdoor survival concepts. They identify the seven basic needs for survival. Students describe the symptoms and treatment for frostbite and hypothermia. They compare and contrast the value of different...
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Solution Shapes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine different solutions.  In this solution material lesson students complete a lab activity and several worksheets. 
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Quiz: Weather Prediction

For Teachers 3rd
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will focus on the weather. Students will respond to ten fill in the blank questions regarding weather prediction.
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Ozone Pollution: Smog Alert

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students examine factors the create smog.  In this pollution lesson students complete an activity about ozone. 
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Quiz: Weather Phenomena #2

For Teachers 3rd
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will focus on the weather. Students will respond to eight multiple choice and fill in the blank questions about various aspects pertaining to our weather.
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Convection in a Pan

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore convection. In this lesson on heat and energy, students investigate how heat moves in convection currents. They use their finding to better understand how convection currents effect the movement of tectonic plates.
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Salinity

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners define and discuss salinity, conduct classroom experiment to determine salinity of water sample by using hydrometer, record predictions, and demonstrate understanding of how salinity influences object's ability to float in water.
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Your Own Fresh Water Aquarium in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore aquariums. In this fish and ecosystems lessons, students establish a freshwater aquarium environment using materials provided. Students read about and care for the classroom fish.
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Windy Weather

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Make wind detectors with paper plates, ribbon, and streamers. Go for walks over an extended period of time to observe and record the effect of the wind on the detectors and other observable objects (leaves, grass, etc.).
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Dew Point

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate saturation conditions and measure the dew point. They conduct an experiment, record data on a worksheet, and measure the dew point in the experiment.
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Surface Meteorological Observation System (SMOS)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars investigate local surface weather conditions. They log weather conditions for thirty days, develop a graph, plot cloud cover, and compare/contrast the graphed lines of various weather factors.
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Activity #14 Floating Bubbles

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students comprehend that Carbon dioxide gas is relatively easy to generate. They comprehend that one way to produce it is with dry ice. Pupils comprehend that carbon dioxide gas can also be produced by combining baking soda with vinegar.
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Working for Water

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats lesson students view a video and plan a school restoration project. 
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The Shape of Things

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils explore dome shape construction. For this dome shape construction lesson, students explore the history, strength, and endurance of the dome shape design.
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Measuring Thermal Energy Transfer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers conduct an experiment to calculate and quantify heat transfer. They conduct the experiment, and complete a data and lab conclusion sheet.
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Thermal Energy and Heat Unit

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explain that heat energy in a material consists of the disordered motions of its atoms or molecules. They know and explain that transformations of energy usually transform some energy into the form of heat, which dissipates by...
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Melting Ice

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students observe the melting of ice and explore the basic physical changes that occur. They gain information of how different substances change the rate of melting. Students discuss the properties of water and ice, the definition of...

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