Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Everyday Science of Eggs [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lab where students can investigate eggs and what happens to egg whites after they are beaten. Lesson plan includes teacher background, standards, and a procedure for students to develop their own experiment.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Cushion It! [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the best way to cushion wrap a sugar cube to protect it from a collision in this lesson plan. During their investigation, students learn about collisions and variables that affect collisions.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Interaction at a Distance [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An experiment where students investigate the strength of magnets. This site includes a lesson plan with both teacher and student information for completing the experiment.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: In the Mix [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students use different types of filters to separate the mixture. This lab requires the students to use engineering skills to solve a real-world problem of filtering water.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: How Strong Is It? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan students will learn how strong a Post-it notes adhesion really is! Students will experiment pulling a Post-It note to collect quantitative data to explore the adhesive properties of the note.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Strong as Newspaper [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students use their engineering knowledge to construct a structure made of newspaper. Students test the strength of their structure with weights! Lesson plan includes teacher and student instructions.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Right Back at You! [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What make a good reflective surface? In this lab, learners will investigate different surfaces with a reflectivity tester. Lesson plan includes information for students and teachers.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: It's Getting Hot in Here [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore solar energy in this lesson plan by collecting and analyzing actual temperature data from a simple model house.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Drive It Green [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, plan students design greener transportation solutions for their community. Lesson contains three parts that ask students to look at their impact on the environment.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Don't Slip! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan students experience friction by sliding a block of wood over sandpaper. Students will experiment with frictional forces by measuring with spring scales or rubberbands.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Oil Spill Clean Up [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan students experiment with cleaning up an oil spill. This lesson begins with students learning about the effects of oil spills on the natural environment. Then students will explore the most effective way to clean up an...
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Light and Shadow [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students experience how light interacts with the environment by investigating relationships between shadows and light. Students will experiment with light by observing how light travels through materials and distances.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: It's Too Loud! [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan students will experiment with ear protectors to investigate sound reduction. This lab has students collecting, analyzing, and organizing sound level data. Lesson plan includes instructions for teachers and students.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Fun With Adhesives [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan students experiment with making their own formula of glue after the art teacher runs out of store bought glue for her classes. While making their glue, the students learn about adhesives.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Chemical Changes in Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource lists the different types of chemical reactions and gives examples of chemical changes that are seen in everyday life.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Testing the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony

For Students 9th - 10th
Think back to the last time you went to the grocery store. How well can you describe the person who was ahead of you in the check-out line? How many details do you remember about the person? Here is a project to investigate the accuracy...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Force and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
In this student-paced module, students apply Newton's Laws of Motion to everyday life, calculate mathematical relationships involving force and motion using algebraic formulas, and understand the difference between mass and weight.
Interactive
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Science of Everyday Life: Dishwasher

For Students 3rd - 8th
A video detailing the history of the dishwashing machine. [3:13]
Interactive
Other

Reciprocal Net: Crystals and Chemicals in Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive students will understand crystals and chemicals in everyday life. The animation takes you through a household and explains various crystallogrophy we use all the time. Objects include light bulbs, items in a bathroom...
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Chemistry in Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives examples of chemical interactions occurring in the human body, in the world around us, in foods, and in products we use.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Uses of Titanium in Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the properties of titanium and the many ways we use it in our daily lives, in medicine, in industry, and in monuments.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Examples of Pulleys in Daily Life

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn how pulleys work and their many uses in everyday life, industry, recreation, and other activities. Includes many pictures of pulleys and pulley systems.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Discuss: Algorithms in Your Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners are invited to express algorithms in their everyday life, sports, games and apps.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Radiation / Half Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will evaluate their personal radiation dose. They will develop an understanding of the term radiation and how it relates to everyday life. The will simulate how radioactive material decays and apply the term half-life....