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Fit To Play?
Students research certain sports-related injuries and who may be at risk for these conditions. They synthesize their knowledge by collectively developing a comprehensive medical history form.
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Does Security Mean Safer? Exploring Issues of Security in Public Places
Learners explore various scenarios that may or may not make them suspicious in the post-September 11 world, and discuss and write position papers about a fatal shooting involving air marshals and a mentally ill passenger.
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TE Activity: Build an Anemometer
Students determine what an anemometer is and how it measures wind speed. They decide on a place to put a wind turbine by using an anemometer. They examine the role that engineers play when using wind speed to determine a place for wind...
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Water Pollution Lesson Plan: All Messed Up
Students map and calculate the area of the school parking lot and then the volume of water falling on the school parking lot. They map the route surface runoff will take to the nearest water body and describe the roles that human...
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Pop Secret Information
Students design procedures for increasing the popping rate of a set amount of popcorn kernels. They propose and test a "secret" addition to the corn popping procedure which they expect would increase the popping rate and then write lab...
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The Energy Debate - Global Warming
Young scholars describe what global warming is, what causes global warming and the impact to our world. They study the threat of global warming and its relationship to the use of fossil fuels.
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Bhopal - Rate of Reaction
Learners determine that the rate of reaction is affected by temperature, surface area, concentration of reagent, and addition of a catalyst or inhibitor. They observe that on December 3rd, 1984, 8000 people died when the chemical plant...
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Bhopal - Covalent Bonding
Using the chemicals that leaked in the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, chemists examine covalent bonds. Provide for them the chemical reactions and have them draw Lewis diagrams for the molecules involved. That's about all there is to the...
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Series/Parallel Circuits
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of series and parallel circuits. They conduct research using a variety of resources. They have class discussion and the lesson includes information for the teacher to use.
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Reading - Glaciers
In this online interactive glaciers worksheet, students respond to 10 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
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Solids and Liquids
Students complete activities to study the properties of solids and liquids. In this states of matter activity, students investigate the melting and freezing of a range of materials in a virtual experiment. Students melt the substances...
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Ammonium Nitrate- Stoichiometry
Students quantify the relationship between moles and mass. They comprehend that ammonium nitrate is used as a fertilizer and an explosive. Students study the chemistry of ammonium nitrate and consider the advantages and disadvantages of...
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Fun with Idioms 7 Exercises
In this idioms worksheet, students fill in the blanks to idioms, choose the correct word, write their own idioms, and more. Students complete 7 exercises.
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Gun Safety Spelling Worksheets
In this gun safety worksheet, students read paragraphs about gun safety and write spelling words taken from each paragraph. Students write 5 words 4 times each.
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Gun Safety Spelling Worksheets
In this spelling worksheet, students write 5 spelling words about gun safety 3 times each on the lines provided. Students read 5 paragraphs on gun safety.
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Gun Safety Spelling Worksheets
In this gun safety worksheet, students read paragraphs about gun safety and write spelling words taken from each paragraph. Students write 5 words 4 times each.
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Kitchen Electrophoresis
Students investigate and explain the differences active transport versus passive transport. This lesson includes an individual and group activity. The basic steps of electrophores is the focus of inquiry. Identification of the pure...
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Mission 5: Energy and the Environment
In these energy and environment worksheets, students learn about energy sources and the role they have with the environment. Students complete an 18 page packet for the activity.
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Paper Recycling Worksheet
In these paper recycling worksheets, students read 2 paragraphs about recycling paper. Students then complete a word search about related words, read facts about recycling, and create as many words as they can from the phrase 'Recycling...
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Spring Fever
Students grow plants from seeds that can later be placed in outdoor settings. They care for the seeds while they germinate and begin to leaf out.
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All Messed Up
Pupils begin the experiment by mapping and calculating their school parking lot. They calculate the volume of water falling on the lot and map the route the water runoff takes. They discuss the roles that humans play in affecting water...
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Basic Electric Circuits
Students calculate the resistance across a bank of resistors in a series, parallel and combined circuit. Using new vocabulary words, they define and describe them in a scientific manner. After stating Ohm's Law, they solve electrical...
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Hazardous Waste
Students define technology and relate the definition to the production of electricity using nuclear energy. They also list the technologies involved and relate the use of these technologies to their effect on society in general, and...