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Everything Esl: Siop: Making Content Comprehensible for El Ls
Learn what is involved in using the SIOP Model. The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) will help teachers in making content material comprehensible to English Language Learners.Ideal for staff in-service.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Symbiotic Relationships in Marine Ecosystems
In this lesson learners analyze videos to make observations about species, populations, and communities of organisms and discuss their symbiotic relationships. Then they create a hypothetical marine ecosystem and describe the adaptive,...
NASA
Nasa: Predictions for the 2004 Transit of Venus
NASA site provides detailed information on the 2004 transit of Venus across the sun. Also explores the modern value of Venus transits and how they aid in the study of astronomy.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F if Graphing Rational Functions
In this task, students interact with a Desmos app by moving sliders and making observations about features of the graphs and the structures of the expressions of the functions. Aligns with F-IF.C.7.d.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Incline
This applet allows the user to make observations about the relationship between speed and position and how both of these are affected by initial velocity and the incline on which the biker is traveling.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weather Detectives
This is an introductory lesson to a second grade weather unit. The young scholars will be observing the weather each day for one week and recording their observations in a chart. The students will be integrating information from the...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Fast Fats: An Analysis of America's Obsession With Fast Food
Analyze parts of a food label, and determine the amount of fat and calories in average foods. Conduct an observational experiment and examine the food choices of classmates.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Erosion in Our World
Students collect evidence to investigate erosion and deposition around the schoolyard.
EL Education
El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide
Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Minerals, Crystals, and Gems
Through this series of three lessons, students will gain an understanding of the basics of mineral science. In their investigation they will also work through the scientific process as they practice their observation skills, form...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Bio Build Up
This activity allows students to make a simple model food chain and observe how toxic chemicals can become concentrated in the bodies of consumers at the top of the chain.
Indiana University
Indiana University: Plants in Motion
Plants grow and change on a time scale that is too slow for us to observe in real time. Time-lapse photography is a simple technique that allows us to see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrates that plants are living and...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Systems Game
Systems thinking is an important concept across the Earth sciences. In this game, students either are a part of a system or serve as scientists tasked with observing and making sense of the system moving in front of them.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Fermentation in a Bag
A hands-on inquiry activity using zip-lock plastic bags that allows young scholars to observe the process of fermentation and the challenge of producing ethanol from cellulosic sources. Students are asked to predict outcomes and check...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Fred Smith
Acting on observations he'd made in a college economics paper, Smith built a unique hub-and-spoke delivery network to keep pace with the developing computer industry. In 1973, Smith launched Federal Express with his own money and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.6 Used Subaru Foresters
Help Jane sell her Forrester! Using the data given, young scholars will make an appropriate plot with well-labeled axes that would allow you to see if there is a relationship between price and age and between price and mileage. Students...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.sp.4 Music and Sports
This task looks at a possible relationship between playing a sport and playing a musical instrument. Students collect data from classmates, summarize the data into a two-way table, make some observations, and construct a bar graph of the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Equations of Lines
For this task, 8th graders are presented with two intersecting line graphs and their linear equations. No values are shown on the axes. They are asked to interpret the constants in the equations in terms of their graphs, and make some...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Mud Fossils
Two part lesson allows for students to observe real fossils then make and recover their own fossils using mud.
Michigan Reach Out
Nasa Trc: Maple Seed Helicopters
Students study the aerodynamic properties of a maple seed and then apply what they observe making their own flying object.
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