Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Minnehaha Falls: Observing Changes in Nature Through Drawing and Writing
Students will take a nature field trip to practice their observational skills and then communicate their findings through drawing, writing, and sharing.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 17: Observing Plants Through a Journal
This lesson engages students in learning about plant growth. Students will observe changes in a growing plant and then will write in their discovery journals to write observations and hypotheses about the plant growth. Students will also...
NASA
Nasa: Climate Change: How Do We Know?
Provides extensive evidence of the many ways scientists have observed and recorded climate change on a rapid, global scale. Lists different events observed, such as receding ice sheets and evidence in rocks, and presents graphs, images,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change
Join teachers and students all over the country in observing the migratory patterns of birds and butterflies and the growth changes of plants as the climate changes. "Journey North" offers a wealth of resources to use as you investigate...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Observing Refraction of Light
This video segment adapted from Shedding Light on Science illustrates how light changes speed, and thus direction, in a process known as refraction. Includes background reading and discussion questions. [2:05]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Temperature Change and Heat Capacity
By the end of this section, you will be able to observe heat transfer and change in temperature and mass and to calculate final temperature after heat transfer between two objects.
Other
Kid Citizen: Snap a Photo: Agent of Change
How did photographers help convince Congress to pass child labor laws? This module explores some of Lewis Hine's photographs that exposed children's working conditions and advocated for child labor laws to protect them. In this tutorial,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Observations of Climate Change
This interactive lesson introduces students to the various ways that people work to understand climate change, particularly in the Arctic.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Changing Sines
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to the various parameters used in graphing the elementary sine function. Technology use is very heavy, as students are encouraged to graph different sinusoidal...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Dam Removing: Changes in the Environment Affect Population
What happens to a population when the environment changes? Students remove a dam that divides an ecosystem to illustrate the effects of environmental changes. Students observe and collect data as the grass and then the rabbit populations...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Learning Observation Skills Through Studying Solids, Liquids, and Gases
During this lesson, learners will practice observing, question writing, and answer generating based on taking part in experiments. Students will work with different substances to observe changes in liquids, solids, and gases.
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Changes in Matter
The goal of this activity is to develop and use a model to describe that matter is made of particles on a scale that is too small to be seen. You will be making observations of changes supported by a particle model of matter.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Climate Change With Gis
Use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to observe climate change with these interactive lessons.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Hitting Home: Climate Change in Colorado [Zip]
Students examine and interpret varied observational data sets to determine whether climate change is occurring in Colorado.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Our Big Backyard: How Does Our Local Ecosystem Change During the Year?
Get students observing the environment around their school with this activity. In this lab experiment, students keep a journal containing written observations and digital pictures of how local flora and fauna change during the school year.
Other
The Geological Society: Climate Change: Evidence From the Geological Record
In this statement, The Geological Society describes the changes that are happening to the global climate in terms of what evidence has been observed in our geological history. For example, what happened during past events of rapid...
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Change in Temperature: Endothermic Reaction
In this activity, students will observe another aspect of a chemical change which is a change in temperature. In this reaction, students will experiment with an endothermic reaction.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Lesson Plans: Using Chemical Change to Identify Unknown
Students observe reactions of liquids with different known powders in this lesson. Unknown powders are then identified using characteristic chemical changes.Site includes a procedure, teacher instructions, and video instruction.
American Chemical Society
Inquiry in Action: Change in Temperature: Exothermic Reaction
Students will observe an exothermic reaction in this activity where they add calcium chloride to a baking soda solution. This increase in temperature is due to the chemical change that has occurred.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Color Changing Milk
Students observe a molecular dance of bursting colors through exploring states of matter and learning that materials can be characterize by how they respond to water.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Moon's Changing Appearance in the Sky: Lesson Plan
Observe how the Moon appears to change in the sky over time in this GBH lesson plan. Students will observe and use evidence from media to describe and record how the Moon appears to change. The media in this lesson plan includes a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fast and Slow Changes on Earth's Surface
Observe fast and slow events that change the face of Earth's surface with this slideshow. Students will use evidence from videos and images to describe how changes on Earth's surface can happen quickly or slowly. Students will have the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: Wind and Water Change Earth's Surface
Observe how wind and water reshape the face of Earth's surface with these slideshows. Students will use evidence from videos and images to observe and describe how wind and water contribute to natural events that are constantly reshaping...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Caused That Change in Motion?
Third graders will observe balls changing direction and determine what made the ball's motion change. They will also use a digital resource to change the position of a digital ball.