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Life in a Forest Stream
Students assess macro-invertebrates from a stream. In this science lesson plan, students observe, classify and identify organisms found in a stream. A lab station is constructed at the stream sight and students study the different...
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Pollinators and Wildflowers
Students explore how plants depend on pollinators to reproduce. In this pollination lesson students dissect a local flower and collect and identify pollinating insects.
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Is It Grown or Mined?
Students are introduced to how to identify various minerals. In groups, they compare and contrast raw materials that were grown and mined. They discuss their views on mining and identify the ore minerals and their purpose to end the...
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Forecast Fever
Ninth graders investigate what high-tech tools are used to gather weather data and make weather forecasts. They view a video and a PowerPoint presentation, and conduct research on a cloud chart website. Students make local weather...
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Current Interactions
Students design an experiment to see how wind, temperature, and salinity work together to influence ocean currents and present it in a report format. They explain to their classmates how experiment findings relate to ocean currents.
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Rain Machine (Solar Still)
Students experiment with a solar still. In this distillation lesson, students find a simple way to use evaporation to make salty water drinkable.
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Solar System: Let's Take a Trip
Third graders consider outer space. In this introductory solar system lesson, 3rd graders complete a KWL chart and listen to the story The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System, by Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen. They will contribute...
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If It Smells Good, Is Edible, and Attracts Wildlife, Then It's a Practical Garden
Students explore landscape design. In this practical gardening lesson, students design landscape plans that call for shrubs, trees, and plants that can be used for aesthetics, cooking, and wildlife.
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Frozen Film
Learners discover how light reflects off surfaces. In this hands-on demonstration, students examine how variations in color are produced by light interference.
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Consider the Issues
Students develop and express opinions on personal and societal issues in biology through journal entries (written and other forms), oral position statements and group discussions.
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Anatomical Female Reproductive System
Students dissect internal female reproductive organs and take digital pictures that are exported onto a disc for use with power point technology.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Evaporation
Learners build a model of a water molecule and design an experiment to see if adding energy affects the rate of evaporation.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Life Cycles
In this lesson, students will extend their knowledge of matter and energy cycles in an organism to engineering life cycle assessment of a product. Students will learn about product life cycle assessment and the flow of energy through the...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Be One With the Water [Pdf]
Fourth graders will explore states of matter and the water cycle by bringing water to life with their bodies. By enacting the changes that water molecules experience, 4th graders will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: 5 Ls2 1: Environmental Matter Cycling
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard: 5-LS2-1: environmental matter cycling.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls1 6: Photosynthesis Matter Cycling and Energy Flow
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS1-6: photosynthesis - matter cycling and energy flow.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls2 3: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS2-3: matter cycling and energy flow in ecosystems.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: All About Clouds
This lesson uses hands-on activities and trade books along with websites to explain the formation of clouds. This lesson may be used in conjunction with a weather unit.
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