In this activity series students will learn more about global, regional, and local weather (and climate) drivers. This particular activity focuses on clouds, ways that the ocean and atmosphere combine to move moisture and heat energy around the globe, and wind and pressure.

In this activity students will learn about air masses, fronts, pressure systems, and wind patterns in relation to regional weather.

In this lab students will see how variable weekly weather can be, and you will consider the factors that make it so changeable. Students will also download and analyze temperature and precipitation patterns for one city over a number of years and see how climate patterns emerge from many years worth of weather data.

In this lesson, students will investigate rocks in an outdoor field trip. Students will be divided into groups and given a bag to collect rocks. After returning to the classroom, students will classify rocks into different groups such as size, shape, color, and texture of the rocks.

In this lab activity, students burn a magnesium strip to reinforce the concepts of chemical and physical changes, reaction types, conservation of mass, formulas and equations, stoichiometry, Lewis structures, and to explore the concept of oxidation/reduction reactions. Students will answer questions during the lab regarding their measurements and observations and also write a lab report to describe their findings.

In this biology inquiry lab, students study evolutionary relationships by making observations of preserved animal specimens, developing a question, then investigating by dissecting the specimens provided.

In this activity, students apply their understanding of comparative statics to a realistic scenario. Students analyze the impact of rising corn prices on land values and grocery store prices.

In this field investigation activity, students compare various soil samples taken from specific locations. Students create a controlled experiment, using a step-by-step procedure.

In this activity, students will evaluate a variety of substances and solutions to determine whether they conduct or do not conduct electricity.

In this investigation, students will work in pairs to predict, experiment, and obseve whether materials are insulators or conductors. They will complete a chart showing their results and journal about their observations, comparing them to their predictions.

In this lesson, students examine three cross-sectional profiles from a northern, central, and southern location of the Red Sea. Students answer a series of questions reading data from the profiles, then examine images and volcanic data in Google Earth to determine the type of plate boundary located in the Red Sea and to make prediction of tectonic activity in the future.

In this guided inquiry demonstration, a person on rollerblades and a medicine ball are used to teach the concept of conservation of momentum. Various sorts of collisions are used to show how momentum is conserved within a system.

In this cooperative learning exercise, students are separated into groups representing one of two countries. Each group determines the allocation of hours across goods to maximize utility. Then, the groups/countries get together and try to negotiate trades that will increase their total utility. Because one country has an absolute advantage in both goods, students learn the role of comparative advantage in the gains from trade.

In this activity students will experience the human view of coral reefs through the eyes of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall, as you watch the IMAX film Coral Reef Adventure. This video did not have a link on the site, but is available through the internet.

In this activity students will exam coral reef samples provided by the teacher. Students will then answer questions and engage in discussion about their findings. Students will also have the opportunity to examine a living coral reef system.

This unit will introduce students to many of the complex issues surrounding coral reefs. The 8 investigations in this unit incorporate some of the most current research data and visualizations available. Using data from a variety of sources, students will learn about the influences of both humans and the environment on the health and vitality of coral reefs.

In this lesson, students will observe and describe something they are familiar with (cookie snacks) to help them observe and describe the physical characteristics of something unfamiliar (rocks). This is also an excellent activity to introduce geological terminology used in describing rocks.

This activity is based on the Curiosity launch video and prompts students to make basic kinematic measurements and calculations based on the video, including elapsed time, displacement, starting velocity, average velocity, final velocity, and acceleration.

This is an exploratory lesson in which students experiment with different arrangements of the wire, bulb, and battery to produce a lit bulb. Students will make close observations of the posiitioning of the materials and draw both successful and unsuccessful attempts.

In this activity students download sunrise and sunset data along with moon phase data and graph these data sets together in a spreadsheet in order to visualize the cycles of the seasons and the moon.