Unit Plan
NASA

Dawn Mission: Dawn Classrooms: The History and Discovery of Asteroids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student groups explore scientific breakthroughs and the development of technologies that eventually led to asteroid discovery aboard the Dawn space mission. Learning module components include jigsaw reading, model building, math...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Postmodernism: "Everyday Use"

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Alice Walker and her short story "Everyday Use," which explores the generation gap between a mother and daughter and the relationship among a mother and her two daughters. Links are provided to the text of the...
Website
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Science Fair Project Idea

For Students 3rd - 8th
Great science fair project ideas! Learn how to ask a testable question and choose from elementary, middle school, or high school science fair project ideas. View examples of testable questions, and see what is changed, what stays the...
Handout
PBS

Pbs Kids Zoom: Chemistry Activities

For Students 9th - 10th
Cool science site provides plenty of fun and engaging chemistry activities for young scientists to learn something new and have some fun at the same time.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Learn: The Truth About Your Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
Forty years ago, we seemed to know more about the Moon than we did about how our own brains work. Not anymore! We're excited to share some new discoveries with you. So, how does the brain work?
Article
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Making Math Real

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Parents strive to open the doors for their children into the vast halls of learning. How to start! Family-friendly ways to incorporate math concepts at home are given here.
Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Nobel Laureate Barbara Mc Clintock

For Students 9th - 10th
The interactive activity examines the discoveries of Barbara McClintock on the correlation between chromosome behavior and breeding experiments in corn.
Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Nobel Laureate Thomas Hunt Morgan

For Students 9th - 10th
The interactive activity examines the discoveries of genetics and chromosomal inheritance of Thomas Hunt Morgan.
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Other

National Geographic: Jason Learning

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Educators and students will enjoy visiting the JASON Project, a NASA and National Geographic cooperation which works to provide accurate and intriguing scientific knowledge for students.
Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope: The Journey Begins

For Students 3rd - 8th
Journey with the chicken egg, from formation to hatching, and learn about its embryology.
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Dna Mircoarray Virtual Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive lab will enhance learning about DNA by virtually translating a gene.
Website
TryEngineering

Try Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource about engineering in the classroom and engineering as a career. Read articles about events, discoveries, and activities taking place around the world. Learn about interesting engineering-related facts, figures,...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Restriction Enzymes and Dna Fingerprinting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The discovery of restriction enzymes and their applications in DNA analysis has proven to be essential for biologists and chemists. This instructional activity focuses on restriction enzymes and their applications to DNA analysis and DNA...
Lesson Plan
US Mint

U.s Mint: Which Side Is Which [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Introduce students to the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark's Expedition. Then take a look at the Peace Medal nickel and differentiate between heads and the tails sides. Finally, do a coin-flip activity, and record and analyze the...
Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Take a 2nd Look"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This strategy's focus is to promote higher-order thinking skills and cooperative learning.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Take a 2nd Look"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This strategy's focus is to promote higher-order thinking skills and cooperative learning. Good resource.
Lesson Plan
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute Online: Coming to Our Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Help students make "Sense," of their senses by using them in the classroom. Site provides discovery activities students can do on themselves, in their classrooms and around campus. A scavenger hunt is also provided.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Conduction Countdown

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS offers an experiment that kids can do at home to learn more about heat conduction and how it works.
Website
Other

Alphabet soup.net: Farm Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Check out this awesome resource on farm animals. Students and teachers will benefit from the links found within this site. Learn what sound each of the farm animals make and more.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv Do It: Balloon Hovercraft

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS site allows you to discover how air pressure works as you learn how to build your own hovercraft.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Math Is Functional

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is a technology-based activity in which students extend graphing of linear functions to the use of spreadsheet software. After students have become proficient in constructing a table of values, students are able to...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Factoring Fanatic

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to give students practice in "finding" the correct factors to use when attempting to factor a trinomial. The students are provided with a Tic-Tac sheet to help them discover the relationship or pattern between...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Determine the Vertices of Transformed Images

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on lesson plan uses exploration and discovery to help students determine the coordinates of the vertices of various figures when translated, rotated, or reflected in a coordinate plane. The exploration phase will access...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Human Slope

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Young scholars will participate in this discovery activity intended for them to uncover the role each variable plays in the graph of a line in the form y = mx + b. Students will actually demonstrate lines in slope intercept form on a...