Pupils practice the various springing skills (hop, jump, leap) as well as proper landing techniques.

Pupils practice moving in a variety of ways to a specific beat while following a leader

Ninth graders describe how equilibrium can occur as the balance of two effects. They model the stability of elliptical galaxies based on how fast stars within the galaxy are moving.

Students explain the basics of rocketry and explain the relationships between mass, acceleration, and thrust.

Students explore simple machines and demonstrate thier acquired understanding by building a simple machine.

Students determine that coal can burn to produce heat.

Third graders flip a dime and a quarter to record and predict the probability of possible outcomes.

Students they imagine they are Galileo and try to duplicate Galileo's experiments and results.

Students make an observe a planetarium using a can with nail holes, black paper and a flashlight.

Learners explore the planet Earth, outer space, and Earth's axis. They demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including literal meaning, inference and critical analysis.

First graders recognize that nearly three quarters of the Earth is covered by ocean. They locate the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans on a map. They describe the difference between ocean water and fresh water.

High schoolers research the Mayan number and calendar system. They translate a variety of math problems from base-10 Arabic numbers into a base-20 Mayan representation. They discuss current challenges faced by the people in today's...

First graders listen to and discuss historical fiction and bigraphies from the early American time period. They role-play, draw, write stories and dress up to re-create events from these historical characters.

Young scholars build a tornado in a bottle and do various readings to explore tornadoes.

Students make and fly small boomerangs made from file card paper.

Students spend some time outdoors and record their observations of abiotic conditions, geologic surroundings and living organisms. They reflect and write about the experience of being observant in nature.

Learners discover how wi-fi works in walkie talkies and computers. They also examine wi-fi wireless network coverage areas and campus locations in which data was taken to measure usage. They complete graphs based on the usage for...

Students conduct online research to learn more information about spiders. They take a current issue of their local newspaper and add spiders to the pictures where spiders might live.

Students investigate the temperature and wind data locally, nationally, and internationally and compare these conditions to those on Mars. Conclusions are drawn about the differences of these conditions and the causes for the variance...

Students explore the World Wide Web and its interconnecting threads providing data. The lesson was originally written for librarians with little or no net experiences.

Students create a keepsake ornament out of recycled plastic lids and other household items.

Students work together to complete an experiment over binary sources. They determine values for the orbital period of certain objects and interpret intensity changes. They also calculate a value for the period of precession of an...

Sixth graders how primary research is carried out. They design a simple survey questionnaire to interview people about their week average television watching time. They analyze the results and write a report based on the information.

Students work together to examine inclined planes. They create a plan to raise rocks to build pyramids. They discover the changes that occur when the angle is increased or decreased.