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Working for Water
Students examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats lesson students view a video and plan a school restoration project.
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Earthworm Dissection
Students identify the external features of the earthworm. They view a video about different features of an earthworm. They research information about annelids on the Internet. They compare and contrast the earthworm with another annelid.
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Cell Cycle Duration
Students examine the cell cycle and how its duration can vary. In this cells lesson students complete a worksheet and answer questions.
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A Canadian Inventory: The Way We Are!
Students, in groups, explore major thematic sections of the Atlas of Canada. They use their findings to produce a wall display, consider and incorporate the issue of sustainability into their material and deliver a presentation to the...
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Exploring the Circulatory System: Getting to the Heart of It All
Seventh graders study how the heart functions and its parts. In this circulatory system lesson students learn how to take their pulse, blood pressure and respiration.
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Reproductive Lottery
Students explain that fishes that reproduce externally have to release great numbers of eggs and milt (sperm) in order to ensure fertilization.
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Using Chromatography to Identify Unknowns
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of chromatography. They practice using new vocabular and observing experiments. They answer discussion questions to end the lesson.
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Sampling Rocks
Students study rocks they find on the playground. In this investigative instructional activity students collect and analyze rocks they find and answer questions about them.
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Going to Extremes
Students compare and contrast Archaea with bacteria and other organisms. In this ocean lesson students complete diagrams.
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Where There's Smoke......
Students use fundamental relationships between melting points, boiling points, solubility, temperature and pressure to develop explanations. In this chemistry lesson students complete an activity.
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Outta Gas
Students explore practical problems that are related to scuba diving. In this oxygen lesson students complete a lab activity.
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Let's Get Specific
Young scholars explore how different species thrive. In this speciation lesson students research and complete a lab activity.
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Now Take a Deep Breath
Students research to answer questions related to deep sea diving. In this deep sea diving lesson, students answer questions on a worksheet using the Internet. They discuss pressure, gas laws, and the physiology of diving in the deep sea.
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By Land or by Sea...or Both?
Students research a video and participate in a discussion. In this watercraft lesson students review material and answer questions about what they learned.
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The Puzzle of the Ice Age Americans
Students describe alternative theories for how the first humans cane to America. In this human origin instructional activity students study the origins of the first Americans.
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Now, Take a Deep Breath
Students define several laws of pressure and see how they relate to scuba diving. In this ocean explorer lesson students answer questions and complete an activity.
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The Periodic Table
Students research an assigned element using the library, an encyclopedia, the Internet and other appropriate resources in order to write a research paper, a project, and an oral presentation.
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Shadows
First graders measure how a shadow changes over the course of a day. They write about what they would do if they lost their shadow, and make silhouettes of themselves. Students make up a shadow dance and read stories about shadows.
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The Ups and Downs of Weight and Mass
Students explore the concept of mass, and how it differs from weight. They also calculate their weight change as they ride up and down on an elevator. They record the changes in their weight as the elevator moves
graph the collected data.
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An Introduction to the Ocean World
Students comprehend how the organisms that exist within the ocean biome, and categorizing each into producer, consumer, or decomposer. They place various human actions under the headings of "hazard" or "help," illustrating how humans can...
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Biomes
Students explore the worlds biomes and see how organisms adapt to these ecological communities. In this world's biomes lesson students research and write a paper about one of the world's biomes.
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Where's My Bot?
High schoolers estimate geographic position based on speed and air travel. In GPS instructional activity students use GPS to estimate the set and drift of currents.
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The Robot Explorer
Students design a robotic vehicle to explore underwater caves. In this robot technology lesson, students brainstorm, research, and report about a robotic vehicle design capable of sensing objects and taking appropriate actions to avoid...
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What's the Big Deal?
Students define terms and describe where they are found and formed. In this methane instructional activity students complete an activity and describe ways in which methane hydrates impact our lives.