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Science Lesson Plans - Grades 6-7
- Physical & Chemical Reactions
- Fitness Gram Brochure Project
- Edible Atom
- Natural Disasters - Assesssment
- Natural Disasters - Learning Activities
- Natural Disasters - Year 5 and 6 unit
- Biology: Life Systems--cells
- Biology--Reproduction and Heredity
- Solar System Unit
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 2
- Lesson Plan 2: Developing Successful Teamwork Skills
- Constructing Basic PVC Wind Turbine - Blades
- To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
- Comparing Aerobic vs. Anaerobic Respiration
- Here students decorate plastic cup flowers with different materials that they then test for opacity, aesthetic value and durability
- Students sort spreadsheet data in this lab to uncover the relationships between latitude, angle of the sun, elevation, and solar energy
- This great real-world and virtual plant transpiration lab also uses spreadsheets and e-journals mailed to the teacher
- Here teams research and construct different solar ovens and then test parameters with computerized probeware
- What You Can Do with Your Turbine
- Easter Egg Geodes
- Students research the Mexican Grey Wolf re-introduction dilemma here and create a persuasive PowerPoint solution
- Here students armed with Excel spreadsheets calculate the biotic potential of a tomato plant "taking over the world"
- Basic PVC Wind Turbine Parts and Tools List
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 1
- Google Maps and Google Earth are used here to study plate tectonics and the corresponding locations of earthquakes and volcanoes
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 3
- Here's a fun lesson on Wind Power that involves students creating a Puff Mobile
- Taxonomy through inquiry is taught here with the help of shark jaws
- Here's a section on the Real Greenhouse Effect
- Literary Response - students write a book report comparing their research to an author's viewpoint
- Here's a Simple Machines lesson on Pulleys
- The main materials for this invertebrate lesson are octopus and squid from a local fish market
- An Environmentally-Practical Science Experiment that looks at Garbage and its speed of Breakdown
- Fabulously Faux: The Rockford Frescoes
- Students learn about the human body's ligaments with chicken feet in this lesson idea
- This lesson teaches us to appreciate spiders and their special talents
- 9-3 includes Writing a Letter to the President
- Day 1: Introduction to global warming, energy conservation and how rising temperatures affect us locally
- An Experiment involving Melting Chocolate at different Temperatures
- In part 9-5, students will create a basic Web Page
- This is a good idea called "Edible Atom" for studying the Periodic Table and Atoms
- Data Analysis (Statistics) - how to construct a histogram, line graph, scatter and stem-and-leaf plot
- Part six works on the difference between Orbit and Rotation and distance from the Sun
- Students use photo editing software here to create T-shirt designs about zoo animals
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- Botany is used in this idea for teaching descriptive writing
- This Simple Machines lesson focuses on Wheels and Axles
- Here's another large, well-developed unit; this one is on Erosion
- This is a lesson on making a hydrometer
- This lesson focuses on building hazardous waste awareness
- Here the rock cycle is demonstrated with chewing gum and Pop Rocks
- This awesome demonstration is simply magic - seriously, go try it now!
- Reading and Writing Workshop With Student Round-Robin Participation
- How can you make Soap Bubbles last longer? Find out with this Experiment
- This first one involves an introduction to the Solar System
- An activity using Digital Cameras to capture Shapes In Nature
- Another Soap Experiment - this one on what makes Soap Slide
- This lesson plan on population and natural selection uses a videodisk called "Super Bees"
- Patterns are created with this bubble blowing idea
- Here students role-play the process of photosynthesis performing as different parts of a plant cell
- 9-2 will create a Short Play
- Part 9-4 involves Assessing the Mars Colony Ideas
- This well-developed sculpture diorama lesson examines positive/negative space and the works of Dale Chihuly
- Here's a lesson on Current and Static Electricity
- Your students can find out the most common month for birthdays in this experiment
- All Stressed Out
- A lesson on Landforms and the Weathering of them
- Do Plants Lose Water through their Leaves? Find out in this Experiment!
- Here students will create their own food web
- This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
- History and Nature of Science - after a field trip, students analyze what they did and did not see
- This lesson in computer animation enables students to obtain a deeper understanding of chemical elements or other subjects
- This lesson is on the Characteristics of different Vertebrates and Invertebrates from around the World
- Day 6: Students compare U.S. energy use to that of other count
- This is a lesson on energy
- This osmosis/diffusion lab idea is easy and dramatic
- Use this lesson when a natural disaster is in the news
- Teach your students about immiscible solutions with this lesson
- The entire class models molecular behavior in this clever gas-liquid-solid lesson
- This Experiment looks at Cars, Ramps, and the Ramp's affect on the Car's Energy
- Day 4: Students examine their own energy consumption and conservation
- "Cotton Ball Catapults" is a great engineering lesson idea
- This lesson is on the Interaction between Living and Nonliving things in an Ecosystem
- Here students make their own science videos ala Bill Nye
- This lesson plan teaches about the Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Cycle
- In this incredible edible lesson, students simulate the rock cycle and end up with igneous rock fudge - yum!
- Your students will find out what happens when Seeds Sprout with this Experiment
- Need a general science filler lesson for the substitute, try this one
- This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
- Enviromental Injustice Unit - Lesson 4
- Word Play Fun... Not Your Ordinary Literary Masterpiece!
- Reading Comprehension Strategies - students host a reading marathon, use a graphic organizer
- Here students discover what makes one compost mixture decompose faster than another
- In this Experiment students make a Model of an Atom with a Walnut Shell
- This plan is for preparation for a science fair
- This is a cool and colorful demonstration of liquid density/diffusion/pH/acid-base indicators
- Functions of the Skeletal System
- In "All the Fish in the Sea," students cross the ocean while avoiding obstacles
- Writing Applications - students write original songs on to save the Bats/Clapper Rails from extinction
- Ocean-dwelling creatures are the subject of this lesson plan
- Learn about cloud types with this great lesson
- A Science Experiment on making a Roller Coaster
- In this original origin of life experiment, real cell membranes "self-assemble" around oil and water molecules
- This is a Science Experiment - How many pennies can be added to a full glass of water?
- This dramatic chemical reaction demonstration turns aluminum foil into copper with a memorable smell
- Find out here how healthy fast food really is
- This idea involves creating a simulated landfill to prevent erosion
- An "Edible Slime" alginate polymer is mixed up here from brown seaweed
- This Science Experiment looks at what conditions cause Mold to Grow fastest on Bread
- An Experiment that looks at the Density of Hot Air versus Cold Air
- An Experiment involving Cartesian Divers
- In this aerodynamics lesson, an airplane is made with just a straw, an index card, and some tape
- This lesson is on Earth's biomes and climates
- The phase changes of matter are studied here by making ice cream in a recloseable plastic bag
- Day 3: Students learn about the potential consequences of global warming
- This idea involves Scanning and/or Digital Cameras for observing Tree Bark
- Here students write a story about using their newly acquired animal adaptation
- Writing Process Planning - students describe "Stellaluna" plot components and a cultural theme
- This portion is on Differentiating Between Needs And Wants Through Research
- This pure substances and mixtures vocabulary worksheet really does "matter"
- A lesson on acids and bases
- Part 9-1 involves Writing a Letter to NASA
- The second lesson is intended to Develop Teamwork Skills
- Here's an idea for Researching the Human Body
- Can a Plant grow from nothing but the top of a Carrot? Find out with this Experiment
- In this activity, students make a rubber ball from latex
- This Science lesson teaches all about Crystals and can be used to make Christmas Ornaments
- Does Sound Travel through Walls? Find out with this Experiment
- "One Million Bones" is a collaborative art project to call attention to the atrocities of genocide and mass violence
- This is a simple and fun "Launch an Eggonaut" physics team activity
- This experiment attempts to discover what time people are most alert
- Recycle? Precycle? Which Cycle Is Best for You?
- A good Art-focused lesson on Painting, the Elements of Light, and Studying Countries
- This lesson plan is called "Looking For Newton" and integrates the Internet
- Students look at changing the Water Freezing Point by using Salt
- Day 8: Students discuss pros/cons of renewable energy
- Students chart the phases of the moon in this lesson plan
- Writing Components Organization - students produce a PowerPoint and play about preservation
- This lesson is meant to help students Understand Hurricanes (uses Internet sites)
- Expository Writing - students compile a scientific research report from a thesis statement here
- Day 9: Students debate the pros/cons of government involvement in energy conservation
- Day 2: Students learn about greenhouse gases and the power of language
- Friendly aliens learn about the sun from your class in this well-developed webquest
- "How to make Fake Warts" might make a great Halloween lesson
- Can a paper clip float in air? That's answered by this Science Experiment
- Here's a great lesson on the science of addiction that uses poetry - part of a full curriculum on prescription drug abuse
- This lesson builds familiarity with reference sources by researching night creatures (good for Halloween)
- Students Predict the number of Sections in Citrus Fruit in this Experiment
- Writing Components - students write and perform a complete history from collected research materials
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students use K'NEX to Design and Build a Bridge
- This Experiment determines how Detergent Changes how Water Acts
- Your students can find out Why Hot Air Balloons Float with this Experiment
- This one is helpful in teaching about The Water Cycle
- This is a very interesting multidisciplinary lesson on changes in matter with chocolate
- This lesson is on objects that conduct and contain heat
- This simple idea transforms plants (collected leaves) into animals (art project)
- Lesson 10 involves Interviewing Skills to determine who should be the first to go to Mars
- Reading and Vocabulary - students collect a flannel board of vocabulary words and stage a spelling bee
- In this 1-2 week Biodiversity Preservation Project, students pick the environmental concern they wish to champion
- Day 7: Students explore different types of renewable energy sources
- This lesson plan looks at Animals and their Adaptations to the environment
- Here's an in-depth lesson on the pH Scale!
- Day 5: Students learn how schools can participate in energy conservation
- Here is an experiment on "Expanding Ice"
- This lesson plan is on Liquids and their different Densities and Weights
- Students create a "Let's Get Cooking" documentary here showing how they used math and science to create a class treat
- This Experiment looks at the affect of Temperature and Gravity on Seed Germination
- A well-developed lesson on Convex and Concave lenses
- Yuma bats and Clapper Rails Unit Introduction
- In this lesson, students can Build a Car (an Index Card Car)
- This lesson on comparing size asks "How Big Is A Whale" and uses the Internet
- This one is called "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
- Chief Seattle's Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson
- Introduction
- The "My Very Energetic Mom Just Served Us Nine Planets" acronym is featured in this astronomy lesson
- Here is an observational pencil drawing lesson
- In this fun idea students create travel brochures for the planets
- Here's a Science Experiment that asks "Can Water Travel Through Plant Stems?"
- Constructing Basic PVC Wind Turbine Procedures
- Want to make a Rainbow? This Experiment tells you how.
- Enviromental Injustice Unit
- ESL students create a recycling brochure in this SIOP lesson
- This is a worksheet on the parts of an eye
- This Experiment looks at the affect of Temperature on the Speed of Molecules in Water
- This lesson teaches students how to "question the author" and "write to learn" in Science or other fields
- In the last lesson, students will use their Interviewing Skill with guest speakers
- Lesson 8 helps to decide what it would take to "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before"
- Here students use PowerPoint or Inspiration software to create a web with pictures summarizing the process of photosynthesis
- Here is a reading comprehension quiz over a Nuclear Water Contamination article
- This lesson looks at the structure of atoms
- This blood bank research investigation idea lets science/health students apply classroom knowledge in a real world context
- This is a simple and very effective blood type compatibility demonstration
- Day 10: Students present their energy conservation projects
- This Experiment determines whether Heavy or Light Objects Fall Faster
- This lab experiment demonstrates osmosis
- This is a DNA lesson called "Breaking The Code"
- An Experiment that looks at how the Amount of Water in a Bottle affects Sound
- A Science lesson on Weather on the Internet
- This Science Experiment looks at whether Fish can be Raised in a Bottle
- Here students make topographic maps with stacked cardboard and tracing paper
- In this lesson, students will model radioactive decay
- "Taking Care of the Earth" is also a four seasons lesson plan
- This Experiment looks at the effects of a Dense Plant Population
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- Here students prepare a colorful Excel Solar System Chart
- Here is a fun physics idea for predicting and comparing the bounce of various sports balls
- Another Science Experiment - this one deals with the Density of Water with Salt or Sugar
- "Sharpie Tie Dye" is a cool and easy idea that really works
- Is it possible to force an opponent to Win Tic-Tac-Toe? Find out with this Experiment
- This A-Z endangered animal research project requires a triorama of creative writing projects
- This Experiment involves determining Hot or Cold by Touch
- This Experiment focuses on the Center of Gravity of objects
- Part four is on Planets, Soil, and Nutrients
- Students calculate the atomic mass of Yumminium in this delicious lesson
- In this lesson, students compare aerobic and anaerobic respiration
- Writing Process Prewriting - students contrast bats and clapper rails using a Venn Diagram
- Here's a well-written full unit on the 6 Simple Machines
- Students complete a QBI (question based inquiry) on their favorite science topic in this lesson
- In this composting project, students discover how much school waste can be saved
- This Experiment looks at whether Electricity can be made to do Work
- This lesson will help you teach the Metric System
- Writing Process Publishing - students create computer graphs showing the population rise
- What do you get when you mix Borax with Glue? Find out in this Science Experiment
- The question "Does background music affect your writing?" is answered here
- Here students develop a digital ecosystem PowerPoint photo album
- Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
- "How Viruses Travel" is the topic of this lesson plan
- The Spread of Disease
- In this lesson students create 3-D models of ocean animals, and you create a 3-D ocean bulletin board
- 10 Earth Day Classroom Activities
- This lettuce project demonstrates cell diffusion, passive diffusion and selective barrier
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- A fun idea for an online lesson on Leap Year
- Students love this Earth Day Jeopardy game activity (Special Ed - 3-12)
- This Science Experiment looks at what happens when Food Coloring is mixed with Oil and Water
- Here is a science lesson on ocean currents
- Discrete Mathematics - class systematically lists and counts bats
- This is a density quiz
- This Art lesson involves Painting (or Drawing) Sunsets and Landscapes and some Geology study too
- A Science and Art lesson on creating a Rain Stick (Music and Social Studies too)
- Building and Testing the Blades
- An Experiment that asks if Plants need Sunlight to be Green
- Art Music - students write music verses and use kinesthetic intelligences to imitate bat sound & flight
- This is a well-developed lesson on the force of friction
- This lesson uses Owl Pellets to aid in studying the Skeletal System
- The Question in this Experiment is whether Green is the only Color in a Leaf
