TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Computer Simulation of the Sonoran Desert Community
The computer program's simulation of a Sonoran desert community should ultimately strengthen the student's comprehension of what is required for a natural ecosystem to sustain itself (remain in balance). This computer simulation program...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: A Log's Life
Third graders learn about the interdependence of animals and trees in nature and the cycles of growth and decay. Students also learn about the importance of preserving balance in nature and what happens when we upset that balance. While...
Other
Morino Institute: Promise of a New Communications Age
This speech outlines the nature of the communications revolution, establishes a framework for the most important challenges that must be addressed and proposes an Agenda for Action for individuals and groups to take advantage of the...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Structures Around the World
How does that bridge stay up? What are the forces acting on that column? This site helps students understand how structures can be built by having them build their own. Also provides images of real structures for kids to compare with...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Measuring the Gravitational Constant, G
A demonstration/lab idea for determining the numerical value of the universal gravitation constant using a torsion balance.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Restoring Ea Middle School Science Unit
Restoring Ea is a place-based middle school science unit exploring management strategies that could be used for the Loko ea fishpond to sustainably feed people and ensure the ecosystem is healthy and pono (balanced). While specifically...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: It Takes Two to Tangle
Students explore the theme of conflict in literature. They learn the difference between internal and external conflict and various types of conflicts, including self against self, self against other, and self against nature or machine....
National Geographic
National Geographic: Ecosystem Imbalance in the World
For this lesson, young scholars build on their knowledge of individual impacts on the ocean to see how the whole system can react to threats and changes. They examine ways in which human actions throw marine ecosystems out of balance,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Biology: Threats to Biodiversity
Looks at the impact of overharvesting, such as overfishing, on biodiversity. It talks of the 'tragedy of the commons,' where harvesters do not feel responsible for protecting a species because they fish in shared areas. It also touches...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Romanticism
This short article tells of the period of time in the late 18th century, when strong emotion and irrational behavior was expressed through the arts. It tells how Romanticism rejected harmony, balance and calmness, and yet typified...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Latin American Marketing Project
This site from Score provides information on the global marketplace. This is a unit where students are grouped to find out the best Latin American country to introduce a new fast food business. Site is very well outlined and includes...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomes and Population Dynamics
This lesson begins with a PowerPoint slideshow that covers important ecological concepts about biomes, limiting factors, carrying capacity, and population growth. Students will look at the population dynamics involved with the diversity...
Open Door Team
Open Door: Ecosystem: An Inter Acting Community: Competition Between Organisms
This short article discusses competition for resources and survival within an ecological system.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Ecology and Economics
Natural systems studied by ecologists and human systems studied by economists must work together to ensure a future of biodiversity. This interview identifies the needs for both and ways in which the two can balance conservation with...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Mt. Carmel High School: In Praise of Political Parties
Wonderful group lesson from Mt. Carmel High School that lets your students select a political party and do research and an oral presentation on that party.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Take It From the Top
Students defy gravity by stacking blocks in different ways in this exercise. Other projects are linked to this lesson as well.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineers Speak for the Trees
Students begin by reading Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" as an example of how overdevelopment can cause long-lasting environmental destruction. Students discuss how to balance the needs of the environment with the needs of human industry....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mechanics Mania
Through ten lessons and numerous activities, students explore the natural universal rules engineers and physicists use to understand how things move and stay still. Together, these rules are called "mechanics." The study of mechanics is...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Implementing Biomimicry and Sustainable Design
This unit provides students with an opportunity to study ecological relationships with an emphasis on the Sonoran Desert. Students appreciate the complexity and balance that supports the exchange of energy and matter within food webs....