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Database Detectives Record Clues
Students collect and organize data from their classmates. They create a database of the information and analyze it. They discuss the role technology has in the world today.
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Writing - Story Ideas
Young scholars write their story in first person as a non-fiction story, or they can write the story in third person as a fictional story and use different characters. They can choose an idea from one of the story starters provided.
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Lost Baby
Students simulate the steps involved in creating a DNA fingerprint by the RFLP technique. They analyze RFLP patterns to determine the parentage of a missing baby.
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Can You Name that Town
Young scholars, after becoming familiar with different names of towns in Arkansas, practice using a map grid and map index.
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Monitor Marine Migrants
Students, in groups, track the seasonal journey of a species, such as a shorebird, sea turtle, or marine mammal, using various sources of migration data
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Mysterious Music
Eighth graders investigate how to compose music for a detective program. The goal is for them to discover the method needed. The idea was simple, they were told to compose the music with emotional tension that climaxed and then relaxed...
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THOAN -Think Of A Number
In this puzzle learning exercise, students think of a number and follow twelve computations to do with that number. The answer to the puzzle is always one. Students make their own set of steps.
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Chromosome Fusion
Students see how patterns can reveal events of the past, thereby merging elements of both experimental and historical science.
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Life Unplugged
Pupils explore renewable and non-renewable energy sources, discuss how each source was created, and identify and sketch out the cycle of energy for each renewable source.
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Seltzer Breath
Students investigate "indicator" (Bromothymol Blue or BTB) to test for the presence of certain chemicals in liquids and gases. They compare distilled water and seltzer water for presence of carbon dioxide.
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Dinosaur Questions
Students discuss what scientists have learned about dinosaurs. They create as a entire class a chart that has questions for "scientists" written on it. They draw pictures of what a person might look like that is searching for answers...
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Secrets Beneath the Waters
Students work in small groups and design a ship out of balsa wood. They hypothesize what happens when the ship is placed in water then make predictions as to which ship stays afloat the longest with the greatest amount of weight added.
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O, Do You Know?
Students identify the short /o/ sound in this lesson. They discover that the "o" is shaped like a magnifying glass, and are "detectives" looking for the /o/ sound in words. They listen to "No, David!" and identify the short /o/ sound...
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Say Aaaaah, Says the Doctor
Students explore the short /o/ sound using tongue twisters. They identify the /o/ sound in spoken language and recognize the /o/ in written words. Students practice writing the letter o. They spell words with the /o/ sound and they read...
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OOOhhhh, My Toe!!!!
Pupils examine the /O/ phoneme by examining words and reciting a tongue twister. They practice writing the letter 'O' on their dry erase boards. While they listen to a read aloud of "Bo and Rose" they form the /O/ with their mouths when...
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Watch Over Wild Wanders
Students collect and organize data relating to migratory species and habitats; undertake a habitat action plan, then maintain planting and building projects for continuing benefit to wildlife; understand the unique needs of migratory...
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iDNAvestigation Exploration
Students investigate DNA Fingerprinting techniques and applications. They participate in a scenario to analyze blood to discover who shattered a plexiglass backboards. In addition, they explain why the DNA fingerprint of blood from the...
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Voices at Whisper Bend
Students examine life in Pennsylvania during and after World War II. Using primary source documents, they compare the unity of the United States during World War II and the Iraq War. They also discover how citizens adapt to the war at home.
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The Case of the Missing Water
Young scholars examine the major concepts related to the water cycle in this lesson. They recognize and define evaporation, condensation, precipitation and the natural cycles that occur as weather. They also participate in an activity...
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Create A DNA Fingerprint
Students engage in a instructional activity that is about the DNA molecule and focuses upon the sequencing of proteins to identify individuals. They conduct research using a variety of resources and then complete the activities included...
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Synonym Search
In this synonym search worksheet, students must find three words within the sentence that all have similar meanings. The students identify these words through underlining them.
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Statistics and Probility
Seventh graders collect data and make predictions. In this geometry lesson, 7th graders work in tiers collecting data and plotting it. They make inferences and predictions about their collected data.
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History Detective: The Case of the Mysterious Trunk
Students role play as history detectives. In this historical inquiry lesson, students discuss what detectives do, analyze a trunk of "artifacts" and make conclusions about its fictional owner. Students complete six pages of related art,...
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Rhymes
Students complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Students pick out words from the poem that rhyme and brainstorm...