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What is the Problem of Boston Harbor?
Students recognize the affects of technology on the environment. They examine data to determine methods to improve waater quality. A research paper is written to desribe recommendations for improving water in the future.
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Waste Audit
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of mental math. They perform calculations as following: recognizing a half, three quarters, and tenths. Students are also challenged to extend skills to making calculation...
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Fun With Graphs
First graders read about making graphs and lean how to make graphs using "The Graph Club" software.
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Weather... Or Not
Students observe and discuss the local weather patterns, researching cloud types and weather patterns for cities on the same latitude on the Internet. They record the data for 6-8 weeks on a graph, and make weather predictions for their...
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Who Would Have Figured?
Students investigate what happens when a coin is tossed a few times versus many times. They analyze, in groups, the data from tossing coins, and the Law of Large Numbers.
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Watershed Management
Middle schoolers investigate the concept of a watershed. They conduct research into the concept using a variety of resources. Students take a field trip to a local watershed to make observations. The outcome is a report concerning the...
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Coal Ash Analysis
Learners use ash contnet, one of the important environmental concerns, that can be determined by massing the residue remaining after buring a sample of coal under controlled conditions. They complete a lab making ash content. Students...
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Investigating Volume
Ninth graders investigate and make conjectures about volume. For this geometry lesson, 9th graders analyze data and predict the outcome. They calculate volume using different tiers.
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Good Vibrations
Students demonstrate sound waves and make changes in the waves
resulting in changes in pitch. Students associate changes in pitch in various "musical instruments"with size and shape and the sound waves they produce.
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Is It Alive?
Eighth graders define the boundaries of living organisms. They determine what makes something a living organism and identify factors that constitute "living." Pupils write a conclusion about the evidence they found that yeast is alive...
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Micro-Magic With Sticky Ions
Pupils view a video about the formation of precipitates. They complete a worksheet that asks them to identify what makes a compound form and what holds it together.
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Flow Rates of Faucets and Rivers
Students work together to discover the flow rates of faucets and rivers. They relate their results to engineering and applied science concepts. They make predictions on the flow rate of a nearby river in their local community.
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Polluted Soil
Students take plants of their own choice and pollute the soil with a pollutant of their own choice or one assigned by the teacher. They regularly record observations such as plant growth, health, and soil pH.
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A Seed Grows
Second graders begin the lesson by planting their own bean seed. Individually, they make predictions about how many leaves and roots their plant might grow and each day record their observations. They graph the results of the length of...
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Allele Frequencies and Sickle Cell Anemia Lab
Students investigate how selective forces like food, predation and diseases affect evolution. In this genetics lesson, students use red and white beans to simulate the effect of malaria on allele frequencies. They analyze data collected...
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Look Mom, No Wings!
Students explain how drag, weight, lift and thrust work together to make something fly. In this physics lesson, students measure their jump height and record data on the table. They reason out why they can't remain airborne for long.
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Arsenic Contamination: Water Filtration
Students work in groups to design a filtration process that will separate clean water from polluted water. They organize data in tables or graphs and present their findings to the class. Students identify further safety protocols that...
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Key Problem 1
Learners find relationships between two variables. They use given data in an Excel worksheet to examine the pitch of a cricket chirp and the approximate temperature. Student determine if the recorded pitch of a cricket can actually...
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Social Studies:Anglo-Saxon Dress Accessories
Students discover the materials and designs used by Anglo-Saxons. By examining an ancient village, they determine materials and shapes most frequently used to make brooches and strap fittings. Finally, students draw pictures of the...
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PowerPoint Probability
Sixth graders investigate film making by creating a video about probability. In this math visualization lesson, 6th graders create a presentation for their class demonstrating the probability of random events taking place in the...
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Revised “Understanding Nutrition” Activity
High schoolers evaluate their current food choices. In this health science lesson plan, students test different drinks to rate the amount of Vitamin C content. They discuss results in class.
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Cell Works
Students identify the different parts of the cells and their functions. In this biology lesson, students create an analogy of a cell and its organelles. They make a poster and present it to class.
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Who Is Average?
Students investigate the average sizes for males and females. They discuss averages in relation to the amount of material needed to make underwear. In teams, they create a data table of small, medium, and large sizes and calculate the...
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What is a Hurricane?
Students research hurricanes on the Internet. In this hurricane lesson, students use the Internet to find out the basic shape of hurricane winds and classify three characteristics of hurricanes. Students then classify at least three...