Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Describing Data Activity

For Teachers 6th Standards
This is a hands on activity to get the students thinking about how to describe data sets.
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Operations Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will be able to practice their integer and fractions skills by completing hands-on activities. Some examples are crisp cookies, fracturing fraction, and two by two.
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Operations Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be able to practice their integer and fractions skills by completing hands-on activities. Some examples are crisp cookies, fracturing fraction, and two by two.
Online Course
University of Kentucky

Virtual Workshop: The Course on Electricity & Magnetism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
On line course on Electricity and Magnetism for graduate credit or professional development, that emphasizes hands on activities you can use in your classroom.
Website
US Department of Education

U.s. Department of Education: Science in the Home Activities

For Students 3rd - 5th
You don't need to be a science teacher in order to teach science at home! This site has a great list of activities along with everything you will need to conduct them.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lesson: An Introduction to Estimation and Measurements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pancakes anyone? Young scholars explore estimation and measurement by learning how to make pancakes. A hands-on lesson designed for students in grades 3-5 where young scholars are engage in hand-on experiences involving measuring volume,...
Website
Other

Sparticl

For Students 9th - 10th
Sparticl is a new web and mobile service for teens, a collection of the very best the web has to offer in science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM. Sparticl includes answers to science questions, images, videos, games, and...
Activity
NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Build a Bubble Powered Rocket

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides fun information on bubble powered rockets. "Build your own rocket using paper and fizzing tablets! Watch it lift off. How high does your rocket go?"
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Indoor Slingshot

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build your own launchers to play carnival-style games using things like toilet paper rolls and rubber bands.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Marshmallow Blaster

For Students K - 1st
Shoot marshmallows across the room with your own Marshmallow Blaster.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Mystery of the Mirrors (1 3)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This lesson plan from the Illinois Institute of Technology incorporates observation with hands on activity through various stations.
Lesson Plan
Other

Bscs: Forces Lesson 2: Representing Forces

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
What makes something start to move? What makes something stop moving or change direction? This hands-on lesson plan will show students that forces acting on an object have a strength and a direction that can be represented by arrows of...
Activity
Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Jello Lenses

For Students 1st - 5th
Make glasses formed out of jello with this hands-on experiment. Links to video of the experiment.
Activity
Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Marbled Gift Wrap

For Students 1st - 5th
Use shaving cream to design pretty paper in this hands-on experiment. Links to video of the experiment.
Activity
Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Sizzlin' Snowballs

For Students 1st - 5th
Cook up a sizzling snowball with this hands-on experiment. Links to video of the experiment.
Activity
NWT Literacy Council

Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Science Fun [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This package of activities is intended for use at a family literacy event on science. The premise is that family literacy and adult literacy go hand in hand. There are suggestions for how to organize the event, and numerous ideas for...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Edible Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As we stand on the top layer of our planet it is a little difficult to get hands-on with plate tectonics. This activity uses layered cake to allow students an up close representation of how major land features have been created.
Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: How Does Density Affect the Earth?

For Students 9th - 10th
Density is a property of matter which affects how mixtures are sorted. The activities offered in this module help us to understand the way matter naturally sorts itself with mathematical applications and hands on opportunities.
Activity
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Cling to Me

For Students 3rd - 8th
A set of four station activities involving static electricity that can easily be done in the classroom.
Article
PBS

Sesame Street: Breathe, Think, Do

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Frustration is a normal part of life, but it can overwhelm kids and bring up a lot of big feelings. You can help them to use the "Breathe, Think, Do" strategy to calm down, identify their feelings, and work to solve their problem.

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