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You Gotta Have Heart

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the concept of relations and interpret graphs and tables. They analyze given data and look for a pattern to determine if the numbers represent a function. Students practice solving scientific word problems that...
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Introduction to Economics

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students develop the concept of supply and demand. In this economics lesson, students listen to a lecture and take notes on supply and demand. Students create a coherent set of notes about supply and demand.
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Going...Going...

For Teachers 2nd - 9th
Students investigate equilibrium in erosion and deposition by predicting effects of moving water on soil; modeling an erosion simulation; observing results of a test; inferring causes and effects, and hypothesizing about erosion variables.
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Scientific Method and Crystal Growth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students conduct a hands-on experiment growing crystals to demonstrate the nature of science as inquiry. They discuss and test variables that affect crystal growth. They research mineral crystallization and mineral formation on the...
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Teaching about the Effect of Photosynthesis and

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate the effects of photosynthesis and respiration. They decide which variables to analyze in a microcosm study. They produce a written paper, oral presentation, poster, or multi-media presentation
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Microorganism Multiplication

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders conduct experiments with yeast to study characteristics of microorganisms. They, working is small groups, change the variables in the experiments and note the results which they later discuss as a class.
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Questions of War and Peace: Using Case Studies to Teach the History of American Foreign Policy

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners read three case studies to focus on how the United States dealt with foreign policy issues. In groups, they read about the decision to drop the atomic bomb, the commitment of troops to Vietnam and wwhether to send troops to...
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Next Year's Seeds

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students play a game that demonstrates variables that affect farming. They write letters requesting free seed catalogs. They discuss the saying "A penny saved is a penny earned" in relation to what they learned from playing the attached...
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Leonardo da Vinci

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students select appropriate tools and technology to perform tests, collect data, and display data. They construct appropriate graphs from data and develop qualitative statements about the relationships between variables.
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Water, Water Everywhere?

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students discover the relationship between water availability and population growth. They change variables in a computer model using a worksheet to guide their hypotheses and conclusions. In small groups they choose a country undergoing...
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Implicit Differentiation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils explore the concept of derivatives. They use implicit differentiation to determine points on a graph where a tangent line is horizontal, vertical, or oblique. Finally, learners find the derivative of a polynomial by...
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Indoor Gardening

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students determine how a plant grows best. In this botany lesson, students observe variables that affect plant growth. Students explore how to grow and maintain a plant. Students make observations of their plant as it grows.
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Mold Investigations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students observe mold growth on bread. In this mold growth lesson, students place bread in various locations and in various conditions to investigate how location, moisture, temperature, and other variable impact the growth of mold on...
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Curds and Whey

For Teachers 7th - 9th
For this chemical reaction worksheet, students investigate the reaction that makes curds and whey. They mix milk and vinegar and run it through cheesecloth to collect the solid. Students make observations, read about curds and whey, and...
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Standard One: Lab Design and Appendix A Lab Skills

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this lab design and lab skills worksheet, students answer questions about experimental design including finding variables, determining controls, and graphing data. They answer questions about microscopy and label the parts of a...
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Ayiti: Children of Haiti Summit

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the core challenges faced by children in Haiti.  In this World History lesson, 9th graders examine the impact poverty has on access to education, nutrition, basic healthcare, and child mortality.  Students...
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Better Traffic Flow

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students calculate the maximum number of cars passing a point in a given amount of time.  In this better traffic flow lesson, students work with an existing  Excel spreadsheet to solve the traffic flow problem.  Students...
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Exercise Set 3.3: Variation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this variation worksheet, students solve 26 variation problems. Students determine the missing variable by using joint, direct, or inverse variation.
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Combining Like Terms

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners define terminology used in simplifying equations. In this algebra lesson, students combine like terms to solve an equation. They use substitution, division, addition and subtractions to help simplify the equation. They multiply...
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Bar Models to Solve Word Problems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students model inequalities as they solve for the missing variable. In this algebra lesson plan, students model their inequalities and use it to  identify less than, greater than and applying it to solving for the missing value.
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Simplifying both sides by using the distributive property, and then solving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars solve linear equations using the distributive property. In this algebra lesson, students solve linear equations containing variable son both sides of the equal sign. They use the distributive property to simplify the...
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Practice Solving Equations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice solving equations. In this algebra instructional activity, students solve a variety of linear equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication, inverse and division. They solve equations with more than one step and...
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Basic Equations

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders solve basic equations. In this algebra lesson, 9th graders solve linear equation using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They solve two step equations isolating the variable and putting the equation in the...
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Graphing Situations without a Table

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students graph a line without making a table of vales. In this algebra lesson, students are given a verbal scenario and asked to write a linear functions representing the scenario and graph it on a number line without making a table....

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