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Scientists Lesson Plans
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Fifth graders review the spelling words associated with the story Mae Jemison: Space Scientist. For this spelling lesson, 5th graders complete practice workbook pages on their spelling words, then discuss the phonics or sounds associated with each word.
Sixth graders explore the scientific method by identifying the skills needed to succeed in science. In this scientific inquiry lesson, 6th graders define the terms predicting, observing, inferring and others in order to discover the scientific process. Students read a "Think Like a Scientist" worksheet and answer questions about the scientific method through a class discussion.
Students explore the role scientists play in research. They research current important areas of scientific interest. They write about how this issue could affect them. They create posters about their chosen scientific issues.
Sixth graders choose and research a scientist from a grade appropriate list which has connections to science standards. They create a "yellow page" for a notebook on scientific discoveries much like the yellow pages of a telephone book.
Seventh graders participate in research to investigate the role of a water scientist and the kind of work that is done to conserve natural resources. To culminate the lesson students conduct research on a local body of water.
Students become scientists. In this science activity, students explore the book Turn It Loose: The Scientist in Absolutely Everybody. Students participate in extension activities to reinforce the idea that there are scientific aspects in many field of study.
Students read a news article that describes scientists finding a fossil of a T. Rex relative in China. They view a picture of the G. wuccai. They respond to the reading using details and by revisiting the anticipation set of questions.
Students verbalize their pictures through their writing. They use scientific vocabulary to create a personality of a scientist. Students match their pictures to the descriptions given.
Students study how scientists like Robert Ballard use sonar to investigate the depths of the ocean. They see that some animals have an unusual way of figuring out what is around them in the dark. They study the echolocation capabilities of bats and think about how ocean scientists can learn from these animals to develop deep-sea exploration techniques.
Young scholars draw their perceptions of a typical scientist, evaluate stereotypes in their drawings quantitatively, and then discuss the origins of these stereotypes.
