In this lesson, students will describe at least two problems with burning fossil fuels and recommend solutions for reducing use of fossil fuels.
In this craft activity, students will recognize, name, and compare the fractions 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 by constructing a penguin out of portions of paper circles.
In this lesson, students will work collboratively to tackle a water conservation issue at home or in their school.
In this lesson, students participate in a kinesthetic simulation to illustrate how nutrient pollution from agricultural runoff can lead to a dead zone at the mouth of a drainage basin.
In this lesson, students will learn how galaxies around us formed and what their stories can tell us about the past, present, and future of our Universe. Students will also have the opportunity to work with astronomers to study and classify galaxies.
In this activity, students play a simple card game based on the stages of metamorphosis in insects.
In this activity, students will learn about common adaptations seen in three ocean habitats and then make predictions about what animals call that area home.
In this lesson, students will practice distinguishing between correlation and causation within the context of global climate change. Students will think critically and analyze different claims and datasets related to what might be causing increasing temperatures in a fictitious town called Solutionville, as well as around the globe. Although students will be working within the context of a fictitious town, the temperature and carbon dioxide data they will be analyzing are real and will enable them to see relationships between global temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Finally, students will watch a video in which they will be learn that the burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and they will begin to explore the connections between human activities and global climate change.
This video explores key water issues, the water cycle, and some of the technology and techniques used to conserve water. A set of discussion questions and post-viewing activities are provided.
In this lesson, students will design and use a simple model to test cause and effect relationships or interactions concerning the functioning of a marine food web, ranking their hypothetical ecosystems according to their stability when faced with a natural or man-made disturbance.
In this lesson, students will learn that the rainforest is divided into layers. They will also learn that different plants and animals inhabit different layers and serve different functions in the rainforest.
This kinesthetic activity will demonstrate concepts like rotation and orbit, clarify movement and direction, and help students understand why earthlings see different things in the sky.
This kinesthetic activity demonstrates to students that the earth's tilt is what is responsible for shifting light patterns and the change in seasons.
In this interactive lesson, students will learn what "retrograde" and "opposition" means in astronomy while modeling this phenomenon.
In this activity, students will use models of Earth, the Sun, and the Moon to discover why moon phases occur. Students will also learn the order of the moon phases from one full moon to the next.
In this interactive lesson, students will use kinesthetic techniques to model Earth's orbit around the Sun for a year.
In this lesson, students construct a habitat for macroinvertebrates. Then they will develop a model to describe the manor and the movement of matter among the plants, animals, decomposers and the environment. This project is designed to span a month or longer.
In this lesson, by solving a logic puzzle, students will learn about the speciation of the Galápagos mockingbirds, a group of birds which heavily influenced Darwin's grand idea of evolution through natural selection. With all of the necessary evidence provided, students can practice reading and constructing a branching diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among this group of birds.
In this lesson, students will build a seisomograph and learn about the cause of earthquakes and how scientists measure earthquake intensity.
In this activity, students will play BINGO to review what types of natural resources are used to make the objects we use in everyday life.