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- Girls In Science
- Aquatic Wildlife and Pollution
- Aquatic Wildlife and Pollution
- Putting Students in the Driver's Seat
- "All Eyes on the Pond"
- Harvard Step Test
- Learning About Plants
- Physical & Chemical Reactions
- Habitat
- Water Cycle
- Fitness Gram Brochure Project
- Edible Atom
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 3, Evaporation
- Water Cycle Unit, Objectives and Scope
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 5, Precipitation
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 4, Cloud Formation
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 2, Evaporation
- Water Cycle Unit Introduction, Water Cycle
- Water Cycle Unit, Supplementary Materials
- Water Cycle Unit, Culminating Activity
- Water Cycle Unit, Assessment
- The Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables
- 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
- Butterfly Unit - References
- Butterfly Unit - What Have We Learned?
- Butterfly Unit - Butterfly Poetry
- Butterfly Unit - Symmetry Lesson
- Butterfly Unit - How to Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - Eat Like a Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycle Sequencing
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit -What Caterpillars Eat
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 2
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- Lesson Plan 2: Developing Successful Teamwork Skills
- Hurricanes
- Constructing Basic PVC Wind Turbine - Blades
- Science Lesson Plans - Junior / High School
- To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
- Erosion Unit Worksheet
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- Aquatic Wildlife and Pollution
- Spiders and Scientific Theory
- What's In My Balloon?
- Parts of a Spider
- Ecosystem Diamante Poetry
- Science - Chameleons
- Comparing Aerobic vs. Anaerobic Respiration
- Build An Animal
- Jumping like Kangaroos
- Here children order the steps in the butterfly's "life cycle" and learn the meaning of that word
- This is an idea for an Easter science sensory table
- 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
- Here kids record and draw journal observations about the needs of their growing seeds
- 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"
- Sustainability posters with recycling, composting, water conservation, organic gardening, repurposing and biofuel facts are created by groups here
- 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
- This ESL recycling lesson integrates English vocabulary, science and environmental consciousness
- This cardinal-inspired paper craft teaches children about circles and cutting on a curved line.
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 3
- This lesson on sequencing and the food chain asks "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?"
- Here's a lesson plan on Lightning Safety
- A lesson plan that looks at how Sound Travels Through Objects
- Here's a fun lesson on Wind Power that involves students creating a Puff Mobile
- Part I: The Science of Climate Change
- Here's a lesson on trees that uses leaf rubbings and "The Giving Tree"
- Compounds are identified by fire in this experiment
- Students create an indoor planetarium in this lesson
- 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
- A brief idea for studying soil with discussion questions for class
- This section focuses on Literature on the Ocean
- Students generate an Inspiration concept map on how body systems are connected in this well-developed "Magic School Bus" lesson
- This lesson employs bubbles to observe changing wind speeds and directions
- Here's a Simple Machines lesson on Pulleys
- Here is a simple life cycle sequencing activity (butterfly, frog, flower)
- A great lesson on Force and Motion as well as Measurement in Newtons
- 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
- Here students put dots on butterfly wings and then find the sums of their creation
- In this lesson, students sort things found on the beach and classify their origins as animal, plant, or human
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This idea involves creating "Penguin light bulbs"
- More Spider Graphing
- In this scientific method lesson, students analyze prepared trash to find evidence of a crime
- This one is on senses in science and language arts
- Students create a Civil War digital diorama here, showing how physical and human geographic factors can affect a war's outcome
- Fabulously Faux: The Rockford Frescoes
- This physics lesson serves as an introduction to Bernoulli's Principle
- Students identify causes of pollution and ways they can prevent it in this bilingual photo story
- This lesson on angles integrates science, social studies, and art
- This is an idea for Teaching Seasons and Precipitation
- Students learn about the human body's ligaments with chicken feet in this lesson idea
- This Vivaldi's "Spring" lesson correlates music with weather and history
- This lesson teaches us to appreciate spiders and their special talents
- Groups create a Photo Story 3 presentation about a researched biome here
- This simple idea uses Computers to learn about the Planets
- An Art lesson for making Playdough Christmas Ornaments
- In this PE/Science lesson, students demonstrate their knowledge of the three states of water in a shuttle run
- Here students collaborate via the internet to construct a mixed media presentation on a researched human body organ system
- 9-3 includes Writing a Letter to the President
- Day 1: Introduction to global warming, energy conservation and how rising temperatures affect us locally
- Here students discover that magnets can work through nonmetal materials
- An Experiment involving Melting Chocolate at different Temperatures
- In part 9-5, students will create a basic Web Page
- This is a cute song or fingerplay about apples
- A Science lesson on Density
- 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
- This portion involves Making a Magnet
- Read this lesson and then "Go Fly a Kite"
- Lesson 2 involves exploring Simple Machines in groups
- Part six works on the difference between Orbit and Rotation and distance from the Sun
- Student groups use multiple resources to compare two cities with similar climates and weather patterns, telling why their temperatures are so similar in a media-rich presentation and report
- This brief idea on seeds uses a jelly bean to show how seeds grow
- Unit Materials and Resources
- Here's a lesson on Food Chemistry; Acids and Bases in particular
- Learn about pumpkins here with "The Pumpkin Book"
- This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
- Here's an artistic idea for learning about Spiders
- This dinosaur lesson plan focuses on the Pteranodon
- This part of the Magnetism Unit is on What Attracts
- Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
- Students use photo editing software here to create T-shirt designs about zoo animals
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- This idea is on exploring Chemical Reactions with Milk
- In this greeting card idea, students also collect and identify leaves, write a poem and discuss photosynthesis
- This geography lesson asks the question: "Weather - where does it come from?"
- This art and science lesson asks students "What's Inside The Egg?"
- This poster idea teaches the differences between monocot and dicot plants
- Drawing 4 Children (free download) is used in this idea to create a dinosaur habitat
- This is a week-long multidisciplinary unit on spring and plants
- In this clever Easter science experiment, students witness absorption, diffusion, and primary color combinations while creating coffee filter Easter egg
- This second part of lesson 4 continues the Matching Activity above
- Here's a multidisciplinary plan on the water cycle
- Does a square bubble wand make a square bubble?" Click here to find out
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- "The Amazing Caterpillar" lesson utilizes live butterfly kits, internet sites, books, puppets, etc. to investigate the life cycle of a butterfly
- This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
- Love Your Lungs
- In this lesson, students use Kidspiration and learn the difference between the terms reuse and recycle
- Here is a fantastic multidisciplinary spider unit titled "Spooky Spiders and Wacky Webs"
- Students write and illustrate sentences about "Earth and the Eight Milky Way Planets" in this astronomy lesson
- Botany is used in this idea for teaching descriptive writing
- Here students "Go Fly A Kite," and learn about drag, thrust, lift, and gravity
- This Psychology / Art lesson is on Rorschach Spots (Inkblots)
- This Simple Machines lesson focuses on Wheels and Axles
- This lesson focuses on why we explore space
- This is a psychology lesson on levels and characteristics of mental retardation
- Water, air, food, or soil -- these controlled experiments discover which is the most needed for plant growth
- Students play a "Simon Says Name That Bone" game in this lesson
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- Here's an idea for an Earth Day Song
- This fun lesson on Colors, Shapes, and Flowers is called "Planting A Rainbow"
- 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
- A Science Lesson on Magnets
- Here the rock cycle is demonstrated with chewing gum and Pop Rocks
- "The Great Melt Race," a well-developed 5E Science Teaching Model about melting ice, contains special directions for students with cochlear implants
- This awesome demonstration is simply magic - seriously, go try it now!
- Reading and Writing Workshop With Student Round-Robin Participation
- Here classes compose their own concert songs about frogs or other themes
- This is a weather vocabulary lesson developed for ELD students
- This is an idea for teaching melting that uses the book "Snowballs"
- How can you make Soap Bubbles last longer? Find out with this Experiment
- Here's a fun idea for studying Insects that involves a new type of Painting
- Students Mix Food Colors to Dye Eggs in this lesson appropriate for Easter
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- Here is a Producers and Consumers Tag game
- This first one involves an introduction to the Solar System
- An activity using Digital Cameras to capture Shapes In Nature
- A brief idea on Sight for 12-18 month old toddlers
- Another Soap Experiment - this one on what makes Soap Slide
- Students create a photo story of the eight phases of the lunar cycle in this lesson
- This multidisciplinary lesson centers on cookies and the letter "C"
- This lesson plan on population and natural selection uses a videodisk called "Super Bees"
- Favorite Parts in Charolotte's Web
- This lesson on insects involves observing a cricket
- Patterns are created with this bubble blowing idea
- This great five senses lesson includes a "listening walk"
- A brief idea on Smell for 12-18 month old toddlers
- A lesson on the Ville Diagram neural activity
- Here students role-play the process of photosynthesis performing as different parts of a plant cell
- This lesson asks the question "Will the boat sink or float?"
- 9-2 will create a Short Play
- In this idea students use Smell to make Hypotheses about Objects
- This is a global warming lesson disguised as a measurement conversion worksheet
- 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
- "The Great Kapok Tree" is used to teach about Rain Forest Trees here
- 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
- These are preschool "bee counting" activities
- Teaching Temperature is the title of this lesson involving Fahrenheit Vs Celsius
- Young students create and label their own paper plant here
- This is a graphing heart candy lesson with a science twist and a good "relevancy" section
- Lesson Plan 3 - Virtual Exploration of Lascaux Cave
- After listening to a story about Tyrannosaurus rex, students write sentences about this dinosaur
- Interviewing Arachnologists
- Children identify animals using camouflage in these activities
- The question "What if Dinosaurs Returned?" is answered in this classroom book lesson
- Here is a lesson on Ladybugs and Aphids
- The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
- In this unit, students capture SMARTboard images of nesting hawks observed live via the internet for a photo presentation about their life cycle
- This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
- An idea for Color Mixing that uses Gelatin
- 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
- Learners create a PowerPoint slide show here on a specific periodic table element
- Day 6: Students compare U.S. energy use to that of other count
- This is a lesson on energy
- This is a Special Education lesson idea on What Sinks and Floats
- A Science lesson on Acids and Bases for the earlier grades
- 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
- The student categorizes nonrenewable vs. renewable resources in this lesson and learns the effects of overusing our resources
- This Experiment looks at Cars, Ramps, and the Ramp's affect on the Car's Energy
- A Science lesson on items that Sink or Float
- A tagboard circus clown is used in this body parts mini-lesson
- Here students keep a butterfly log
- In this excellent taste bud lesson, students predict, sample, describe, identify and chart bitter, sweet, sour, and salty Jelly Bellies.
- A brief idea on Hearing for 12-18 month old toddlers
- The life cycle of a butterfly is taught here with books, poems, story assignments, and pasta art
- In this lesson, students use their brain to make a brain out of Play-Doh
- Students prepare and eat a healthy vegetable snack in this step-by-step idea
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- "Bottles Of Fun" is an idea for looking at waves and water movement
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- If you need a math component for a rainforest unit, try this fruit loop graphing idea
- Day 4: Students examine their own energy consumption and conservation
- Students observe the life cycle of a flowering plant grown from seed over a period of time in this "5E" lesson plan
- "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
- Here's a lesson on the 5 Senses that uses "Brave Little Monster" and was written by the book's author
- In this incredible edible lesson, students simulate the rock cycle and end up with igneous rock fudge - yum!
- In this new Chipo's Gift "glyph" activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
- Here students research the biography of a scientist and create his tombstone
- Your students will find out what happens when Seeds Sprout with this Experiment
- This is a solar system lesson with an art component
- This lesson involves Tracking Time and the importance of Collecting Data
- In this webquest project, students discover how the water cycle relates to changes in matter
- Here is a lesson on clouds
- In this lesson, students use yarn to illustrate the life cycle of a flowering plant
- This is a Kidspiration lesson on levers
- This lesson is on concrete (for an Architecture theme) and involves making a Footprint Stepping Stone
- A Lesson on Rainbows, their History, and their history
- A brief idea for exploring items that Sink or Float
- Need a general science filler lesson for the substitute, try this one
- This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
- This idea on Cell Organelles compares Cells to a School or Factory
- The last section Makes and Uses a Compass
- 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's a lesson for measuring Magnetic Strength
- In this idea students make handprint spiders
- Can you guess who is in the Kapok Tree? This descriptive paragraph lesson answers this question
- Here is a science and math lesson on volume (uses pumpkins)
- This is a lesson on zoo animals and the hot or cold climate from which they came
- 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 multidisciplinary kite building lesson is a great way to apply geometry
- Unit Comprehensive Assessment
- This is an idea for making a four seasons tree booklet
- Predicting with Charlotte's Web
- This Math and Science lesson plan involves creating Favorite Flower Graphs
- Click here to read, write, sing, estimate, graph, and eat apples
- A collection of activites to introduce Mammals to young students
- Students examine simple machines and predict their use here
- This well-developed lesson on the components of a community includes suggested connections to other disciplines
- Diet Analysis
- This plan is for preparation for a science fair
- Levers are the subject of this part of the unit
- This is a cool and colorful demonstration of liquid density/diffusion/pH/acid-base indicators
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- Functions of the Skeletal System
- Many creative kinesthetic devices are used here to help students learn the planets and their characteristics
- Here students label the parts of an owl's body with descriptor words
- 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
- This is a changing seasons webquest
- Categorizing Elements and Reading the Periodic Table are the topics of this lesson
- This lesson models how to glean information from text to write an informative paper
- Lesson Plan 1 - Mapping Walls
- The book "What Do Fairies Do With All Those Teeth" is used in this lesson
- This is a genetics unit rubric for a "newly discovered" organism (male & female) and their possible offspring
- This Expressionism lesson is part of a Thanksgiving project-based multidisciplinary learning plan
- This lesson is called "What is Work?"
- Timeline for Implementation of Lessons
- Ocean-dwelling creatures are the subject of this lesson plan
- This lesson on Plant Parts involves their Function and a Mobile
- Learn about cloud types with this great lesson
- In this geology lesson, students dig for chocolate chip fossils inside cookie rocks
- Part III: A Personal Plan for Climate Change
- This lesson explores just the sense of touch
- A Science Experiment on making a Roller Coaster
- This one is on Frogs and uses the Senses to Observe their Characteristics
- 5 Step Lesson Plan - Falling Leaves
- This lesson on Oil Spills focuses on Writing a Letter to a Senator
- These center activities serve as a delightful introduction to the common garden snail
- With the help of "The Hungry Caterpillar," this "Fruit Unit" also teaches days of the week and graphing
- In this original origin of life experiment, real cell membranes "self-assemble" around oil and water molecules
- This end-of-year activity produces next year's bulletin board
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- Here's a general overview of the Ocean Unit
- In this lesson, student's discover a new bird and explain its adaptations
- In this creative lesson, students make an animal and choose an environment
- This is a kindergarten stormy vs. fluffy cloud activity
- 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
- This lesson on Rainbows involves students creating a Crayon Resist
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- Find out here how healthy fast food really is
- This lesson is on Seeds and Fruits with and without Seeds
- This idea involves creating a simulated landfill to prevent erosion
- This Wetlands idea is only feasible if you live in an area with various Wetlands
- An "Edible Slime" alginate polymer is mixed up here from brown seaweed
- This lesson plan is on melting snow and thermometers
- This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
- This idea develops grouping/classification skills
- In this lesson, students craft and classify snowflakes
- 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
- Spider Haiku Poems
- Finding Homes of Spiders
- This idea is on Oceans and the Math topic of Classification of Seashells
- Narrative Rationale
- This lesson looks at Plants compared to Trees, Edible Parts, and involves a Celery Analysis
- This lesson idea is on the three States of Water
- This lesson idea is on color and paint palettes
- This is an idea for growing shamrocks
- 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
- This plan is on tornadoes and makes use of the Internet
- This is a lesson about endangered animals and "Rare Beasts" by Charles Ogden
- In this idea, students send postcards from Pluto
- Here's an idea for students to create books about "Things That Fly"
- Extinction is the topic of this lesson
- The phase changes of matter are studied here by making ice cream in a recloseable plastic bag
- Making a Birthday Bar Graph is an engaging beginning-of-the-year math idea
- First we look back to before there were any "Machines," and look at Simple Machines like Corkscrews and Screwdrivers
- This miscible/immiscible lesson demonstrates how oil and detergents pollute water
- Day 3: Students learn about the potential consequences of global warming
- This one uses the book "Fang The Dentist" and is about Going to the Dentist
- This lesson on Thunderstorms involves a Thunderstorm Simulation
- A Science lesson on Leaves and Observation (uses some Math)
- This lesson plan uses the story Beluga Passage and focuses on Beluga Whales
- This idea involves Scanning and/or Digital Cameras for observing Tree Bark
- Here students write a story about using their newly acquired animal adaptation
- Here we make an Oobleck (with the help of Dr. Seuss)
- This is an excellent five senses learning station lab
- Writing Process Planning - students describe "Stellaluna" plot components and a cultural theme
- This portion is on Differentiating Between Needs And Wants Through Research
- This Johnny Appleseed lesson includes geography, transportation, U.S. history, sense of taste, graphing, and story illustration
- Two recipes that are useful in Science for exploring substances like Flubber
- This one is a Bird Poem Sequencing Activity
- Where the Spiders Live
- This pure substances and mixtures vocabulary worksheet really does "matter"
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- Groups view and create videos on habitats and their organisms in this lesson
- In this lesson, students write a two paragraph opinion letter in response to "Yoshi's (ecological) Dilemma"
- A lesson on acids and bases
- "Dinosaur Prints" are created in this lesson
- This is an in-depth lesson on the Five Senses
- Part 9-1 involves Writing a Letter to NASA
- Fun with spider facts
- This scientific notation and significant figures worksheet is appropriate for a chemistry or pre-engineering class
- This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
- A great Human Body activity
- The second lesson is intended to Develop Teamwork Skills
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- 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
- This is a user submitted revision of "The Breathing Machine"
- In this activity, students make a rubber ball from latex
- The speed formula (S = d / t) is the topic of this lesson
- This Science lesson teaches all about Crystals and can be used to make Christmas Ornaments
- Here is another lesson on volume
- Here students use Photo Story 3 to illustrate a personally significant poem with their own photos
- Does Sound Travel through Walls? Find out with this Experiment
- A Language Arts Lesson Plan on Nature
- In "Moon Munch," students bite out the phases of the moon that they researched
- This Globalization and the Environment Unit culminates with a mock Kyoto Protocol negotiation
- "One Million Bones" is a collaborative art project to call attention to the atrocities of genocide and mass violence
- This one deals with Magnetic Attraction through Objects
- Force, Motion, and Velocity are the subject of this lesson using Balloon Rockets
- The goal of this portion is to teach about the Bird's Body
- This lesson is on the seasons and measuring temperature
- In "A-B-C Pipettes," students must use deductive and "compound" reasoning to solve a chemical mystery
- This is a simple and fun "Launch an Eggonaut" physics team activity
- Here is a taste test for your taste buds
- This lesson plan is an Exploration of Volcanoes
- Here is a short food chain lesson idea
- This experiment attempts to discover what time people are most alert
- "Please Don't!" is the name of the teen suicide prevention photo stories resulting from this valuable lesson
- This interesting lesson mixes two topics: The Five Senses and Poetry
- In this lesson, students extract DNA from cells
- Here "The Magic School Bus' takes us through a unit on sound
- This one looks at the Instruments used to Forecast the Weather
- Jamie Rettke
- Recycle? Precycle? Which Cycle Is Best for You?
- This lesson is on germs and cleanliness
- Here is a "Baggie Butterfly" art project to complement an insect unit
- A Science lesson on soil types
- 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
- A brief idea on Touch for 12-18 month old toddlers
- Lesson Plan 4 - Breaking Down Walls
- This is a Rain Forest song
- This cooperative learning mini-lesson teaches the differences between butterflies and moths
- More Finding Where Spiders Live
- This is a static electricity lab
- In this well-developed Pre-K/Special Ed fish pond lesson four and one-half fish are counted
- Three branches of American government and three Texas presidents are the topic of this well-developed democracy lesson
- Students chart the phases of the moon in this lesson plan
- This is a KWL geography lesson on the migration of Monarch butterflies
- Here is another lesson that answers the question "Which ball bounces the highest?"
- Writing Components Organization - students produce a PowerPoint and play about preservation
- This idea is to be used as an Introduction to Animals and involves Role Playing
- 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
- Here's an idea for teaching about Insects and Spiders
- Day 9: Students debate the pros/cons of government involvement in energy conservation
- The story elements of ecological cartoons are discussed in these lessons that promote keeping grease and grit out of our sewers
- 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
- Exploring the Rain Forest Through Print, Graphics, and Sound
- Plotting Facts
- This lesson is on Hurricanes, particularly in Florida
- "How to make Fake Warts" might make a great Halloween lesson
- Here's one on Spider Webs
- 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 introduces the human skeleton
- Table of Contents
- This lesson builds familiarity with reference sources by researching night creatures (good for Halloween)
- Students use Linnaeus's system to classify animals and their own system to classify objects in this lesson
- This Rain Forest lesson involves People, Animals, and Life in the Rain Forest
- This lesson is "All About Ants"
- Students Predict the number of Sections in Citrus Fruit in this Experiment
- Here are great high school chemistry writing prompts for the start of school and throughout the year
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- 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
- Students identify and count shapes and colors used while constructing Geometry Animals here
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- Here students create a water cycle diorama, a rainfall journal, and a photo story of the water cycle and weather systems
- Learn the four ways that seeds travel in this lesson
- Curriculum Web of Activities
- This Experiment determines how Detergent Changes how Water Acts
- This is a health lesson on Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
- Your students can find out Why Hot Air Balloons Float with this Experiment
- Students learn the parts of a seed and the effects of lack of sunlight on the growth process in this lesson
- Plants are the subject of this lesson, and the book "Jack's Garden" is used
- 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 Volcanic Eruptions and involves creating a Volcano in class
- This lesson is on objects that conduct and contain heat
- 2 well-developed lessons on Animals in Asia and Africa
- This simple idea transforms plants (collected leaves) into animals (art project)
- After readingThe Borrowed Hanukkah Latkesby Linda Glaser, why not make some?
- Lesson 10 involves Interviewing Skills to determine who should be the first to go to Mars
- This lesson on Seeds uses the book "Now I Know All About Seeds"
- 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
- Zig Zag Zinnias are paper sculptures of flowers in a pot for Mother's Day or for teaching about different types of lines
- 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's a similar lesson plan on Tornadoes that also uses computers
- In this unique idea, students describe their classmates in positive math or scientific terms
- This is a good lesson plan on Changes of State of Matter
- Here is an experiment on "Expanding Ice"
- This lesson plan is on Liquids and their different Densities and Weights
- After this dinosaur lesson, students will be able to compare and contrast ten different types
- Students create a "Let's Get Cooking" documentary here showing how they used math and science to create a class treat
- Here's an interesting idea for creating Fish Paintings (and studying Fish)
- Students use technology resources here to compare fat, sugar and calorie content of two restaurant meals in graph and table form
- This Experiment looks at the affect of Temperature and Gravity on Seed Germination
- Here are some ideas for connecting math to the study of the environment (on Field Trips)
- Monitoring Your Heart Rate
- Students learn about and create constellations and their myths in this dual subject lesson
- A well-developed lesson on Convex and Concave lenses
- Yuma bats and Clapper Rails Unit Introduction
- Here we learn about the four parts of a flower
- In this lesson, students write and illustrate a desert animal short story, similar in style toMama, Do You Love Me?
- After comparing the "Magic School Bus in the Rainforest" book to its video, students research and present rainforest animal facts to the class here
- Here's a lesson for Valentine's Day called Love Bugs, used to discuss Bugs
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- In this lesson, students can Build a Car (an Index Card Car)
- We continue with Wedges in this lesson
- Here's a great lesson on Tracking Hurricanes
- This winter demonstration answers the question: "When does snow melt?"
- This is just a set of handy questions that can be used after listening to a radio program available on the Internet on Nuclear Waste Cleanup
- This lesson on comparing size asks "How Big Is A Whale" and uses the Internet
- With this idea you would bring in a Weather Forecaster from your local news
- Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
- This one is called "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
- This lesson teaches a writing process for informative non-fiction research-based papers
- Children (Special Ed) learn rain concepts here by making a rain cloud out of construction paper and yarn
- This part involves Bird Houses and Making a Book
- 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
- This one is on weather patterns and planning for severe weather
- Here is an observational pencil drawing lesson
- This is a lesson about air
- In this fun idea students create travel brochures for the planets
- A Spider's Life Cycle
- Here we graph the weather with help from the weather channel website
- In this osmosis idea, a carnation magically turns green
- This lesson involves an experiment with volcano explosions
- Here's a Science Experiment that asks "Can Water Travel Through Plant Stems?"
- You can use this lesson plan to teach about the Animals of the African Savannah
- Healthy Food Choices
- Students investigate and create flowers using inventive materials for an "April Showers - Bring Me Flowers" mural in this lesson
- "Round the Clock" is a unit on time to the half-hour and digital/analog clocks
- This is an idea for Mixing Colors using an Eyedropper
- Constructing Basic PVC Wind Turbine Procedures
- Students must defend their organelle with research and pictures to the Cell Body Corporation as it considers layoffs
- Want to make a Rainbow? This Experiment tells you how.
- Enviromental Injustice Unit
- ESL students create a recycling brochure in this SIOP lesson
- This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- Here's a lesson for looking at where and how plants and animals live
- 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
- In this idea students go on a Nature Walk to look at Trees and Leaves
- This lesson teaches students how to "question the author" and "write to learn" in Science or other fields
- This is a very interesting geology lesson where students eat "Metamorphic Rock Pancakes"
- In the last lesson, students will use their Interviewing Skill with guest speakers
- Here's a lesson plan on clouds that involves making one in a jar
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- In this lesson, students work in groups to study different animal habitats and their own survival
- This is a Song that can be used to help teach about
- Here students use the internet to track the weather online
- This atom and electric energy lesson demonstrates the relationship between electrical force and particle weight
- Here's a large, 5 day thematic unit on Penguins
- This technology lesson looks at inventions and discovery and makes use of PowerPoint
- 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
- Students work collaboratively here to create ecosystem concept maps using Kidspiration software
- A Science lesson on Seeds
- A brief idea on Taste for 12-18 month old toddlers
- This is a well-developed lesson on good/bad bacteria and the proper way to wash hands
- Here is another cloud lesson
- Here's a good lesson on the water cycle and the importance of water
- Using the book, "The Magpies' Nest," this lesson teaches how Birds Build Nests and allows students to Build Nests
- Here is a reading comprehension quiz over a Nuclear Water Contamination article
- Here insect literature is read
- 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
- Create a simple shoebox lid shadow box here with potpourri and craft stick flowers
- This portion teaches about the Ocean Food Chain
- This lesson plan uses a Meter Stick as a Scale and is called Torque Lab
- "Life in a Pond" is an outstanding web-enhanced lesson on pond ecosystems
- Here's a discussion of the Ships on the Ocean
- Here's a lesson you can sink your teeth into - calculating the percent composition of gum
- This is a simple and very effective blood type compatibility demonstration
- This renewable energy unit uses a Promethean Board, a streaming video website, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Something different - a fun lesson idea on feet
- Day 10: Students present their energy conservation projects
- This is a lesson plan on tornadoes and their location
- This lesson plan is on the "Layers of the Rain Forest"
- Part IV: The Water Pollution Problem
- This Experiment determines whether Heavy or Light Objects Fall Faster
- Students learn the names of the stages of the U.S. Space Program in this musical lesson
- Here is an integrated thematic Solar System Research Lesson Plan
- This is an ecology lesson on the endangered Manatee
- This rainforest bird lesson is an introduction to research and CD art
- This is an excellent multidisciplinary rock and mineral unit
- This lesson answers the question: How do we hear sound?
- In this changes in matter lesson, students go outdoors to make slushies
- This lab experiment demonstrates osmosis
- In this well-developed lesson, students create a Photo Story 3 presentation on the life cycle of a plant
- This lesson on Teeth focuses on the Care of, Growth, and Names of Teeth
- This simple activity shows how the sun and heat affect things
- 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 lesson looks at Arachnids and their Webs and compares them to Insects
- 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, the poem "Tommy" inspires students in their house plant maintainance and observation tasks
- In this lesson, students will model radioactive decay
- In the "Washer Toss" measurement game, mixed number addition is practiced as well as physics concepts
- In this on-line geology course, students post their volcano/earthquake/glacier reports for on-line peer evaluation
- "Taking Care of the Earth" is also a four seasons lesson plan
- A lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
- This Experiment looks at the effects of a Dense Plant Population
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- A Science lesson plan on the Speed of Sound
- A Science lesson plan on day and night
- Here students prepare a colorful Excel Solar System Chart
- This "Fall Scavenger Hunt" collects observations of autumn
- Researching Spiders
- Here is a fun physics idea for predicting and comparing the bounce of various sports balls
- Ocean Animals are the subject of this section
- This hydraulic water cycle lesson integrates technology and is appropriate for special education students
- Another Science Experiment - this one deals with the Density of Water with Salt or Sugar
- This lesson discusses the difficulties in Crossing the Ocean
- Spaghetti Webs
- "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
- Here's a Seasons Book idea
- Here are some ideas for teaching about spiders using "Miss Spider's Tea Party"
- Students use their sense of touch while making these textured collages
- This A-Z endangered animal research project requires a triorama of creative writing projects
- This in depth lesson plan is on Discovering The World Around Us with our Senses
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- In this idea students view a video of Bill Nye the Science Guy
- This Experiment involves determining Hot or Cold by Touch
- This Experiment focuses on the Center of Gravity of objects
- Here's a game idea called Animal Tic-Tac-Toe
- This brief idea on Rocks uses Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and includes a Critique of the book
- This lesson is on researching and charting farm animal information
- This idea involves using dried Leaves to make glitter art
- In this lesson, insects and the internet intermingle to inspire an informational poster
- This is another great lesson on the sense of touch
- In this genetics lesson, students build living Punnet squares for Martian combinations
- Did Leonardo Da Vinci's Curiosity and Detailed Drawings Influence Communities Around the World?
- Here students observe the life cycle of mealworms while taking care of their needs
- Here students identify different states of matter in everyday classroom objects
- "Molecular Weight and the Mole" is the main subject of this unit conversion worksheet
- Part four is on Planets, Soil, and Nutrients
- A lesson on the Causes of Pollution
- Called "My Life As A Tree," this lesson is on Tree Rings, Bark, Cambium, and Heartwood
- Students calculate the atomic mass of Yumminium in this delicious lesson
- This lesson plan uses science and see-through fish
- In this lesson, students compare aerobic and anaerobic respiration
- With the aid of Kidspiration, children sort natural and man-made objects here
- 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
- This great lesson plan on the heart is called "How Does Your Heart Rate?"
- Writing Process Publishing - students create computer graphs showing the population rise
- Here's an idea for using poetry (reading and writing) to help think about weather
- This idea is called "Guess The Animal" using Animal Sounds
- What do you get when you mix Borax with Glue? Find out in this Science Experiment
- Here's a good Attention Getting idea called "Give Me Five!" (all Five Senses that is)
- A Science lesson on friction
- This is a multi-disciplinary lesson on "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and sequencing of events
- This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
- This part is on the Ocean Plants
- This is a lesson on baby farm animals
- The principles of cohesion and adhesion are demonstrated in this quick and easy science activity
- Title: Evidence of Interactions
- A 5 Step lesson plan on Erosion
- In "Poppin' Corn," students use descriptive language, inventive spelling and their five senses
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- This lesson culminates in the creation of rainforest terrariums
- Here's an idea for hosting your own science circus
- 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
- Students create a Kid Pix Slide Show on animals in this lesson
- 10 Earth Day Classroom Activities
- Here is a lesson on the human genome project
- This is a well-developed "Cam Jansen and the Missing Dinosaur Bones" lesson
- This lesson deals with Plants That Never Bloom
- These PK-12 lesson plan ideas on emotions, expressions, and reactions yield altruistic activity in various subject areas and grades
- Here "Sensitive Plants" are grown
- This lettuce project demonstrates cell diffusion, passive diffusion and selective barrier
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- This one is for studying the Uses of Water
- Tooth Brushing and Keeping Decay Away are discussed here
- This lesson uses an astronomy website and Kidspiration 2 software to make a planet graphic organizer
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- In this lesson students create Art from the Natural Dyes in Vegetables
- A lesson plan on Problem Solving with Magnets
- This lesson focuses on the conservation of energy
- A fun idea for an online lesson on Leap Year
- Kid Pix software is used here to create an animal habitat and climate slide show
- 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
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- A good introductory lesson, this one is on What Attracts and Why
- Here children explore the sun's warmth and observe how heat causes change in bags of chocolate
- Culminating Activity-Field Trip
- Geo-spiders are made while discussing conflicts in this Anansi related lesson
- Children "skate" to the meter of waltz music in this cold weather idea
- Another good lesson on Magnets - Poles, Strength, and Attracted Objects
- Teach about the Oceans of the World with this part
- This lesson looks at Eye Safety in Labs
- Here is a science lesson on ocean currents
- Discrete Mathematics - class systematically lists and counts bats
- Rocks are the subject of this Science lesson
- Simply called "Lunch Time," this one is about Carnivores and Omnivores
- This lesson plan also teaches the water cycle and the different states of water
- This is a density quiz
- In this "All About Butterflies" Kidspiration lesson, students make colorful models and create a life cycle chart
- This Art lesson involves Painting (or Drawing) Sunsets and Landscapes and some Geology study too
- This science and art lesson uses the book "The Very Busy Spider"
- Students input their butterfly life cycle research summary here with the help of a graphic organizer
- A Science and Art lesson on creating a Rain Stick (Music and Social Studies too)
- An Earth Day history timeline is created here
- This is a Photo Story 3 research project about space exploration during the Cold War
- This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
- Building and Testing the Blades
- A Spider's Venom
- This is a good lesson on Gravity, Erosion, and Mass Wasting
- This lesson is on the North and South Poles of a Magnet
- Part II: A Macro Plan for Climate Change
- This idea looks at Forecasts and how we Prepare for Weather
- Kool-Aid and pancakes are used here to demonstrate physical and chemical changes
- In this "Follow the Drinking Gourd" activity, students create a big dipper looking glass and write their personal meaning of freedom
- Spider webs are captured here with this idea involving hairspray and lamination film
- 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 on Lungs is called the "Breathing Machine"
- The complete metamorphosis of butterflies is the subject of this lesson
- Teach students about careers in the health field using this lesson
- This lesson uses Owl Pellets to aid in studying the Skeletal System
- The role organelles play in a cell is compared here to the function of bicycle parts
- The Question in this Experiment is whether Green is the only Color in a Leaf
- Lesson Plan 2 - Building the Biggest Walls
- "W is for Worm" is the title of this cinquain poem lesson
- This lesson plan is on the Interacting Systems of the Human Body
- Ecosystem in a Box
- Weather Thematic Unit
- Moon Phases
- Spring Time (Caterpillars)
- Cloud Unit, Types of Clouds
- Topic: Sound... 3 lessons
- Solids, Liquids, and Gases
- Solids, Liquids, and Gases
