Students assess their understanding of pressure systems and the associated weather conditions that may result.
This professional development article describes approaches to using social media in harnessing the power of Web 2.0 technologies to reinforce the connection between multimedia literacy and powerful content-area learning in grades K-5. The emphasis is on collaboration with the school librarian. The article appears in the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which is structured around the seven essential principles of the climate sciences.
Part of NCSSM CORE collection: This is the document for the conductivity titration of Ba(OH)2 with H2SO4.
This online resource provides students background content that explores the relationship between atomic structure and light energy.
This article highlights man-made sources of ozone, that contributes to surface global warming.
This interactive tool assists identification of bird species. After students provide answers to four questions, the tool will sort through an online database and narrow the search to just a few species.
Learn the names of the organelles. Students must correctly label all the organelles.
In this lesson, students will understand where and how bacteria grow. They will then design a controlled experiment to further investigate.
This virtual lab will familiarize students with the techniques used to identify different types of bacteria based on their DNA sequences.
Students in small groups will determine the density of various balls and predict their ability to float or sink.
In this activity, students use coins to model molecules and demonstrate how mass in conserved in a chemical reaction.
In this activity, students use their knowledge of levers to compete against another student in a simple game. Students will add wooden blocks or similar objects to a tray balanced on a pivot. By competing to keep the tray level, students will learn about the physics of levers.
Sample Learning Goals
Balance a chemical equation.
Recognize that the number of atoms of each element is conserved in a chemical reaction.
Describe the difference between coefficients and subscripts in a chemical equation.
Translate from symbolic to molecular representations of matter.
Students write balanced equations for a series of word equations. Students will also indicate the type of reaction as described.
The simulation shows a ballistics cart. If the cart is at rest on a horizontal surface, it will shoot a ball straight up in the air, and catch the ball again. What if, as in this simulation, the cart is traveling at a constant velocity horizontally, instead? Will the ball land ahead of the cart, in the cart, or behind the cart? Note that the cart fires the ball straight up, with respect to the cart, when the middle of the cart passes the small vertical trigger on the track.
Use the buttons to select the different modes (whether there is a tunnel or not, and whether to show the velocity vectors).
Students design and build a balloon-powered car to better understand the science ideas related to rocket propulsion. They use ideas of mass and force to work out ways to improve the distance traveled by the car.
Students will understand how energy can be transferred from one object to another by designing, building, and testing a wind-powered car to deliver a message across the classroom.
In this inquiry activity, students solve a 1D motion challenge in groups. Students build their own balloon rocket from the provided materials. They collect data and prepare a position vs. time graph of their data and determine the average velocity of the rocket.
Can your group make a balloon to look like a favorite book character, famous person or Superhero which will be driven by a Sphero and Sphero Chariot?
Sample Learning Goals
Describe and draw models for common static electricity concepts (transfer of charge, induction, attraction, repulsion, and grounding)
Make predictions about force at a distance for various configurations of charge