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Sea Ice Research
Students study sea ice and its importance in climate and climate change. They discuss sea ice as a presence of a food source for marine animals in the arctic and complete a lab activity. After completing the lab, they watch a video...
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Dr. Teeth and Dr. Gums To The Rescue
Second graders role play as dentists researching teeth and their care. They create a slide show showing how a character, Bear, can take care of this teeth explaining habitats, diets and teeth.
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Magnetism and the Magnetic Force
Fourth graders investigate magnetism and the magnetic force.
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Aruba Cloud Cover Measured by Satellite
Learners analyze cloud cover and to compose written conclusions to a given related scenario. They submit a letter of response and a report detailing their calculations and conclusions.
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Can You Identify Arthropods?
Third graders sort and classify the four Arthropod classes. They are given puzzle pieces of one Arthropod example. Each group is to put their puzzle together, glue it on a piece of construction paper and label the ir puzzle.
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Building a Scale Model
Third graders create a model of the solar system. In this solar system lesson, 3rd graders create a scale model of the solar system. Working in pairs students solve mathematical problems to correctly measure the distance each planet is...
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Chills And Thrills
Students learn what happens when ice melts. They explore melting, and devise ways of speeding up and slowing down the melting process.
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Ecology - Biodiversity Lab
Studnents examine the degree of biodiversity that exists in one's everyday environment, in order to develop an understanding of how scientists classify organisms and to explain why biodiversity is important for living things.
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Mean and Median
Students define mean and median. In this "average" lesson, students calculate the mean and median for a list of given numbers.
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Curiosity Does Not Kill The Cat
Young scholars list the different ways they could test a guinea pig, a dandelion, and their brother (or sister)? They create a data chart in their group that lists the organism, what they could measure, and how they could change that...
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Modeling With Quadratics
Students investigate quadratics through word problems. In this algebra lesson, students models the number of registered males in apprenticeship programs. They investigate the transformation of quadratic function on a coordinate plane.
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Using Linear Models
For this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders examine models whose behavior can be described by a linear function. The four page worksheet contains explanation of topic, three guided problems, and eight practice problems. ...
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Heathly Foods Makes Heathly Body
Young scholars examine and identify foods on the food pyramid. They catergorize food and place them on the correct level. They discover why they should eat foods in moderation.
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Water Pressure - Disparity of Resources
High schoolers examine the disparity of resources between developing and industrialized nations, and research the problem of water availability as world populations increase and natural resources are stressed.
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The Statistics of Coins
Middle schoolers use skills of observation, recording, and calculation to provide an overview of years of cents (pennies) in circulation in the local area.
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Green Leaves
Third graders, after having conducted one experiment three times, record their observations results in a chart. They predict what hidden colors they believe that a leaf holds. Students record their predictions in their science note books...
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Weather Or Not
Students use the internet to find pen pals to share in their weather experiment. Individually, they research the high and low temperatures for cities within the United States and email the results to their pen pal. They also develop a...
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Mapping the Ocean Floor
Students study the bottom structure of underwater habitats and how they can be mapped.
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It's A Gas
Students build an organic waste methane generator and learn by running a scientific experiment to see what happens when people alter nature's way of recycling.
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Smallest to Tallest - Where is the Middle?
Third graders measure each other's height and find the mean, median, and mode for the height of students in their class. They line up tallest to shortest and discuss the most appropriate measure of central tendency for the class.
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The Talking Earth: a Research Lesson
Fifth graders read the book, "The Talking Earth" and research an animal that is found in the Everglades.
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Conducting A Survey
Students identify the types of information gathering styles and different surveying styles. They distribute a survey around your school to determine the different forms of transportation used to get to school.
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Can You Dig It?
Young scholars investigate a fossil site and diagram a site map. They role play as paleontologists.
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WATTS UP?
Second graders research the Internet as they classify different forms of energy, investigate electrical energy and how to conserve energy.