Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tomb Explorer/Temple Explorer

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders build an explorer vehicle which they program through an obstacle course to enter the tomb or temple to discover artifacts.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Your Weight on Other Planets

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore their weight on other planets. In this science lesson, students view a presentation about the other planets and complete a worksheet in which they make predictions about their weight on the moon and other planets.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Create a Non-native/Invasion Species

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners view a video about non-native/invasion species. They create a non-native/invasion species that they think would have an impact on farming, industry, recreation, or water in the local environment.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Collecting and Recording Data# O

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students observe plants growing over time, measure specific plant growth, and gather and record data on plan growth.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Unknown Liquids

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students must design and conduct an experiment to determine which unknown liquid has a greater density based on basic information about the liquids and containers. Students are given specific materials to work with.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lotic Environment Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create and conduct experiments on a "classroom river habitat." They manipulate the biotic and abiotic factors so that they are able to compare an artificially prepared river model to a naturally occurring lotic ecosystem.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Don't oZone Out

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students study the ozone and measure its concentration in different areas. Students use Ecobadge strips and other equipement for measurement. Then they share their results on an on-line forum. Also, students study environmental problems.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Control Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from an industrial control course taught at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. The course teaches basic characteristics of feedback control systems, frequency-response analysis, and...
Lesson Plan
Other

Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Would You Rather? (Part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will create a customized Google Form that will showcase the four dilemmas defined by the game cards from Would You Rather...? and then share the form with others to collect data for analysis. Lots of Would You...
Website
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Yrbss Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

For Students 9th - 10th
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.
Handout
Other

Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Catapults: Controlled Investigations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this structured inquiry, students will investigate a catapult system. Having previously explored and identified the variables of the catapult system (length of lever, mass of shot, angle of catapult), students will conduct controlled...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wide World of Gears

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In an interactive and game-like manner, students learn about the mechanical advantage that is offered by gears. By virtue of the activity's mechatronics presentation, students learn to study a mechanical system as a dynamic system under...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Population Growth Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Avida-ED freeware, students control a few factors in an environment populated with digital organisms, and then compare how changing these factors affects population growth. They experiment by altering the environment size (similar...
Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Applied Mathematics Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Over a dozen topics in the field of Applied Mathematics are explored here. Each link contained detailed explanations of the area in question, along with examples and sketches that both teachers and students will find helpful.