Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Habits Are Hard to Break

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Studens brainstorm ideas about the ways scientists think. In small groups, studentds create a definition for one or two "habits." Students develop a set of questions to be used by the entire class in a series of interviews. Students...
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Curated OER

Job Hiring...Who's the best candidate?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners, working in teams, assume they are the newly hired research director of a biotech firm interviewing the top two candidates for the position of research scientist. They evaluate the candidates and decide who should be hired based...
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PBS

The Impact of Genetically Modified Seeds

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What is all the fuss about genetically modified foods? PBS provides this resource designed to supplement the documentary Food, Inc. to help learners investigate the benefits and controversies of genetically modified foods...
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Curated OER

Measure for Measure: Time & Temperature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine scientific inquiry.  In this time and temperature lesson students create a template to solve scientific problems and work through a science problem.