Universe Lesson Plans

Young scholars build the two models of the universe created by Aristotle and Copernicus. They compare and contrast the two universes. They create hypothesis on how each model functions.

Whitman was an artistic practitioner. Read and compose poetry modeled on the poet's characteristic method of using his notebooks as a source of the personal experience to uncover the universal themes which he explored.

Students visualize a universe with fewer than three spatial dimensions. They consider how more than three spatial dimensions could exist in the universe.

Students describe what scientists mean by an "expanding universe" in their own words. They explain how scientists comprehend the universie is expanding. Students comprehend the vast scale of the universe. They comprehend how theory and experiement come together to create scientific evidence.

Students analyze the size of the universe and calculate the time to travel to near and distant destinations.

Fifth graders write descriptive imagery and identify facts about various components of the universe. They listen to the book "The Magic School Bus, Lost in the Solar System," develop a list of descriptive words from the story, compose a list of adjectives for an assigned object, and guess what astronomical object is being described by each student.

Students simulate the Big Bang. In this lesson on the origin of our universe, students role play to show how the Big Bang explosion may have created our universe.

Eleventh graders explore the impact of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this social justice lesson, 11th graders read the document, respond to questions about the document, and read an article about Eleanor Roosevelt's involvement in writing the document.

Students analyze the aspect of universalism in William Shakespeare plays. In this Shakespeare analysis lesson, students brainstorm a list of common human emotions and read quotes from Shakespeare plays. Students paraphrase the quotes and and discuss the emotion in the lines. Students read passages from various Shakespeare plays.

Eleventh graders take a closer look at reverse discrimination. In this Supreme Court lesson, 11th graders analyze primary documents from Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and explore the decision as well as the role of affirmative action today.