Science Lesson Plans

Students work on a project with peers from another school using Edublogs.com. This technology lesson promotes autonomy, choice, and collaboration as students research and write about their chosen science topic. They communicate via blog about the progress of their project. The lesson concludes with student led presentations of their blogs.

Students discuss their personal ideas about science. After reading an article, they discover how James Cameron is trying to interest people in the oceans. In groups, they create a public service annoucement promoting science and presents them to the class.

Students discuss some of the reasons behind Lance Armstrong's success in cycling and chart those reasons into four categories: Physiology, Psychology, Equipment, Training/Strategy. They choose one sport and research three examples of sports science that an athlete might use and summarize their research in a letter as a coach giving advice to an athlete.

9th graders investigate antibiotics action against bacteria. In this series of science lessons, 9th graders identify the different renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy. They calculate current, voltage and resistance of a circuit.

Students generate ideas about the most scientifically sound ways to prepare foods safely and efficiently during the summer season. They use the GED Connection Science Workbook, so they can practice the skills needed to prepare for the GED Science test.

Students conduct a survey about the nature of science. They record the responses in a table. They discuss the implications of scientific theory.

This lesson has learners learn to explore science through problem solving. In this problem solving lesson, learners explore how to solve the problem of the story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." This lesson has learners learn how to construct a model and design a solution. This lesson has learners keep records of their scientific investigations. This lesson has learners learn engineering vocabulary.

Learners participate in a variety of activities using a pumpkin in a science lab environment.  In this pumpkin science lesson, learners measure pumpkins, hypothesize whether pumpkins will sink or float, describe the inside of a pumpkin, record pumpkin data and characteristics.

In these science lesson plans, learners examine the process of conducting a science experiment. They discuss what makes a good science experiment, then examine pull-back cars and incline planes to determine what experiment they can conduct. They design an experiment for the cars, then critique a separate experiment.

Students conduct research on space science and fiction at the Franklin Institute's exhibition "An Inquirer's Guide to the Universe." After completing their research, they compose science fiction stories about imaginary planets.