Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Genes Can Be Turned On and Off

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Regulations exist in many places from business to schools, but what about in our genes? Learn about gene regulation with an online interactive. It uses an animation to introduce the topic, many photographs of the scientists best known...
AP Test Prep
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Flipped Math

Calculus AB/BC - Using the Second Derivative Test to Determine Extrema

For Students 10th - 12th
Take a second look at extrema of functions. Pupils learn how to use the second derivative to determine whether a critical point is a maximum or a minimum. Learners use concavity to identify critical points as either a max or a min and...
Lesson Plan
Bonneville

TinkerCAD: Introduction to 3D Printing

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Steer young minds to build better boats. Future engineers first spend a few days exploring the TinkerCAD software and completing some embedded lessons. They then design sea crafts with buoyancy in mind and print them using a 3-D printer.
Activity
NASA

Art and the Cosmic Connection

For Teachers K - 12th
Solar art inspires! Scholars study planetary geology with an artistic analysis. Pupils view a PowerPoint presentation on the solar system and space exploration and then try their hand at planetary image analysis using art techniques. 
Activity
Curated OER

Giving Thanks: A Haudenosaunee Message of Thanksgiving

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A discussion of thankfulness opens a lesson followed by a read-aloud of the "Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address Greetings to the Natural World." Scholars answer questions and write down what they are thankful for in their home or...
Lesson Plan
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Chicago Botanic Garden

Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Natural and Human Causes

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Part three in the series of seven has pupils discussing the different greenhouses gases, learning about the carbon cycle, and then watching a short video about the carbon cycle. Based on their knowledge, individuals complete a greenhouse...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Inventions, Puppets, and Commercials

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, invent a product to sell, create a commercial for it using a stick puppet they make.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Thin Slice of Soil

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students examine the importance of soil in the production of what we eat and wear, and analyze the percentages of the earth used for food production. They create their own Pyramids of Life, and construct Dirt Babies out of hosiery, dirt...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Best Practices of Technology Integration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils study how a type of product is advertised. In this product advertisement lesson, students research a specific product and its advertisement. Pupils create a market research survey based on their peers preferences. Students create...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advertising

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students complete a product analysis as a study of advertising. In this advertising lesson, students discuss advertising by putting up 10 product logos with the name of the products taken out. Students see how many products they can...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

High Tech Food

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students view videos, read, and fill in charts about agriculture production. In this agriculture lesson plan, students complete these agriculture activities and explore careers in agriculture.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Supply Chain Management

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners identify the steps of production. In this supply chain lesson plan, students determine how businesses monitor production and trace the supply chain of products they own. Learners also discuss ethical issues related to the supply...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Real People, Real Farms: Case Studies

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners examine sustainable fruit and vegetable production.  In this agriculture lesson students apply what they learn to real life situations. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Virtual Reality

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students consider the implications of playing violent video games. In this current issues lesson, students visit selected websites to research virtual violence and video game censorship.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing A Story

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write a story about past events and translate it into English. In this story writing lesson plan, students watch video clips, look at examples of stories, and write ones themselves.
Interactive
Curated OER

Water: A precious resource

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this water worksheet, students watch a video on water, read a passage, complete sentences, write vocabulary words, and write a paragraph. Students complete 5 activities total.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The New Zoo

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore animal characteristics by researching the animals in a zoo. In this video documentary lesson, students view the local zoo and create a documentary about a single animal they found at the zoo. Students present their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making a Brand for Ourselves the "Cowboy" Way

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils define cowboys and learn about their roles on rangelands. In this rangeland lesson, students define cowboys and cowgirls and complete a KWL chart. Pupils read Cattle Kids and Til the Cows Come Home. Students visit the Diamond...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Denmark Vesey's Rebellion Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine Denmark Vesey's life and create a skit or video production about his life.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nursery Rhyme Modernization

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students retell a nursery rhyme updating it and create a video.  In this Movie Maker nursery rhyme lesson, students  use technology to update a nursery rhyme.  Students incorporate special effects, actions, and captured...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Video Recruiting

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students develop a recruiting video using technology to attract students to take JROTC as a class. Students video tape various ROTC activities throughout the year and select those required for the video.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Production Time

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify terms related to computer-generated productions (e.g., desktop publishing, WYSIWYG, clip art, hypertext, multimedia, laserdisc, CD-ROM, VCR, scanners, camcorders).
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Best Birthday Present Ever

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils view a PBS "In the Mix" video about smoking and identify cigarette ingredients, the physical effects of smoking and techniques used in tobacco advertising. They compose a letter persuading someone to quit smoking.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Careers in Television

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss and research how a news program is produced. They watch a web based video before working in small groups to produce a news program. They role play different jobs as they produce the program to share with at least one...

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