Students explore the careers of prominent African Americans in science, mathematics, and technology. They use The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences website, which includes profiles of past and present African Americans...

Students explore their new science classroom.  In this classroom exploration instructional activity, students observe a floor plan drawing of their new science classroom through a PowerPoint presentation.  Students then get to...

Students examine biodiversity and interrelatedness concepts.  In this ecology instructional activity students go on a field trip and fill out a data sheet. 

Students engage in a lesson in which volcanoes be explored and examined. After watching a video, students create volcanoes out of clay.

Students discuss advertisements and techniques they have discovered. They read an article about the science of selling and create an advertisement of their own to sell a book. They record people's reactions to their advertisement and...

Students dramatize the wonderful world of nature, without making a sound. In this early childhood creative thinking lesson, students dramatize different aspects of nature to develop creative thinking, reading, memory, and motor skills.

Students design a track that keeps a ball in motion for 5 seconds or longer. In this designing lesson plan, students explore force, gravity, and cause and effect when it comes to science and building before building their own track.

Students design their perfect friend. In this adjectives lesson students imagine having a super-computer that analyzes people. Students work to solve personality description word puzzles. Students choose adjectives that describe their...

Students are introduced to the concept of magnetism and investigate the properties of magnets. In this magnetism lesson, students identify a magnet then examine why certain things are attracted to magnets and some things are repelled by...

Students plan for their future by exploring occupational experience programs.In this career lesson plan students list activities that they will participate in in the future and complete a career exploration project.

Young scholars create bleached designs with the sun's bright light. For this early childhood science lesson, students use their observation and prediction skills as they explore the sun's bleaching power.

Students research sea life using laptop computers. In this sea life lesson plan, students participate in a field trip to the beach and enter observations into their laptop computers. Students classify shells and sea life.

Students conduct an experiment. In this physical science instructional activity, students learn about Isaac Newton's theory that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Students show this theory by looking at how a...

Students view a video on friction and examine how friction and gravity affect some sports.  In this investigative lesson students write a paragraph and draw a picture that illustrates how friction and gravity affect sports.

Students, after reading and discussing a science research prompt, gather information about a particular endangered species and present findings to the class, by completing a research workbook and making a realistic sketch of the animal.

Students study concepts of energy and energy transfer. They look at how these concepts apply to musical instruments. They study the law of conservation of energy. They use the concepts studied in the lesson to design a musical instrument.

Second graders perform a variety of experiments to observe, form conclusions, and make inferences.  In this experiment lesson plan, 2nd graders experiment based on the result of a pre-assessment. Students share what they have learned.

Learners discuss Newton's laws of motion. In this motion lesson, students watch a video that explains Newton's laws. They play a marble game and watch for laws of motion and force. 

Students create a mural of the food chain of the animals and plants of BC's rocky shore. For this food chain lesson plan, students also play a food chain matching game.

Students explore how pollution and invasive plants disrupt the ecosystem.  In this restoration lesson students list materials that pollute wetlands, how people can keep them clean and ways in which invasive plants establish.