Curated OER
Tree Identification
Students list four ways to identify trees. In this tree identification instructional activity, students use tree identification techniques such as leafs, bark, wood grain, soil type, and climate to create tables and graphs.
Curated OER
You Can Do It: Creating How-To Videos
Students create instructional videos. in this video lesson, students choose a subject area and topic to make their own how-to video. They research this topic and film their video using a flip-camera.
Curated OER
A River Runs Through It
Students solve an environmental problem on a local river. They use their knowledge of river ecology to develop an action plan. They use river-monitoring equipment to collect river- monitoring data, including biological, physical, and...
Curated OER
Understanding Bernoulli's Principle
Fifth graders explain why we fly. In this space science lesson, 5th graders discuss Bernoulli's prinicple and its relation to flight.
Curated OER
Definition and Applications of Computational Science
Students participate in a variety of instructional experiences about Computer Science. They define Computational Science and describe computational simulation. They also compare and contrast Computational Science and Computer Science.
Curated OER
Traffic Watch with a Palm
Students, in groups, interpret data about traffic using Palm technology.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Teaching the Scientific Method With Paper Rockets
This lesson plan will introduce your students to the scientific method using a fun, hands-on activity.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Galileo and the Scientific Method
Lesson focuses on the Scientific Method and the nature of Galileo's conflict with authorities in the Roman Catholic Church.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Teaching the Scientific Method
Life is one project after another, no matter what career field one chooses. The responsibility of planning a project is a valuable lesson for students that applies to most career fields. This method requires students to answer a question...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Heave Ho!
Students will discover the scientific basis for the use of inclined planes. They will explore, using a spring scale, a bag of rocks and an inclined plane, how dragging objects up a slope is easier than lifting them straight up into the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Steps of the Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson that teaches the steps of the scientific method and can also be used as a review. It contains some interactive flipchart pages for students to choose the correct step, guess what pages,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Students as Scientists
This curricular unit contains two lessons that let students actually do the work of scientists as they design their own experiments to answer questions they generate. In the first lesson and its associated activity, students conduct a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sugar Spill!
In this activity, students act as environmental engineers involved with the clean up of a toxic spill. Using bioremediation as the process, students select which bacteria they will use to eat up the pollutant spilled. Students learn how...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Optimization of Slime
Using their knowledge of the phases of matter, the scientific method, and polymers, student teams work as if they are chemical engineers to optimize the formula for slime. Hired by the fictional company, Slime Productions, students are...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Determining the Geologic History of Rocks From a Gravel Deposit
Gravels deposited as a result of continental glaciation are used to teach the application of the scientific method in a cooperative learning mode which utilizes hands-on, minds-on analyses.
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching: Scientific Method Blues
This lesson introduces the scientific method to your young scholars through song. Students will learn the steps of the scientific method through this great song written by Kathleen Carroll. Click on the link and play it for your whole...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to teach students the steps in the scientific method (Purpose, Hypothesis, Procedures, Analysis, and Conclusion). The flipchart contains images that help to define and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Science: A Work in Progress
The scientific method is more than just a series of steps to be followed like a recipe. It is a fluid, ever-changing process. This video discusses student's perception of the scientific method and how to make learning science in the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Quantum Dots and the Harkess Method
Students explore the applications of quantum dots by researching a journal article and answering framing questions used in a classwide discussion. This "Harkness-method" discussion helps students become critical readers of scientific...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Cube Puzzle and Toilet Paper Roll Model in Teaching the Nature of Science
This lesson incorporates inexpensive materials such as carton boxes, toilet paper roll tube, strings and toothpicks. It engages students to conduct pattern observation, prediction, testing and ends up with a model construction. It also...
Michigan Reach Out
Michigan Reach Out: Creating a Salad Dressing
This site is provided for by Michigan Reach Out! Teach the scientific method with salad dressing! Students understand the scientific process and how it helps scientists by making salad dressing.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Better by Design
The purpose of this activity is to use a scientific method to determine the effect of control surfaces on a paper glider. The students will construct a paper airplane/glider and test its performance to determine the base characteristics...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: In Search of Real Science
The author of this paper discusses some of the challenges and problems encountered when teaching science and the scientific method to students. He provides links for some sample lessons. Site by Access Excellence.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve This?
In this video, Veritasium asks people to try and figure out the rules of a pattern presented. This video teaches us about the scientific method and how our preconceived notions can affect how we discover new information. [4:43]