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Acid Attack

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the effect of chemical erosion on statues and monuments. They use chalk to see what happens when limestone is placed in liquids with different pH values. They also discover several things that engineers are doing to...
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TE Activity: Space Shelter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students simulate that they need to develop a new home on a different planet. They design a shelter that will ensure their survival after researching the characteristics of the other planet. They write an essay about their home design.
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Triangles Are Not Bad

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore cultural diversity. In this multiculturalism lesson plan, students participate in a simulation that requires them to consider the implications of belonging to cliques and stereotyping others.
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Burs in Your Furs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore the concept of animal welfare. In this wild animal habitats lesson, students discover the work of wild animals in sustaining their habitats as they participate in a classroom simulation. Young scholars discuss how...
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Mapping the Circulatory System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the circulatory system in human beings.  In this human body lesson, students create an outline of a human body using colored markers and butcher paper.  Students use red and blue colors to simulate the...
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Normal (dip-slip) Earthquake!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students label the fault lines and tectonic plate boundaries on the world map. In this earth science lesson, students simulate ocean floor formation using CEENboTs. They explain the causes of earthquakes.
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Striking Earthquake!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students simulate strike slip faults using CEENBoTs. For this earth science lesson, students identify the fault lines and tectonic plates on a world map. They label the different parts of a fault line.
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Chernobyl 2 - Air Currents

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners create a scale model of the affected area of the Chernobyl disaster. Using this scale model, they simulate the explosion and the resulting uneven dispersal of fallout due particularly to wind direction and weather conditions.
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Entrance Ticket

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect data on different events and word problems. In this algebra lesson, students use a table to organize their data. They graph their coordinate pairs on a coordinate plane and make predictions.
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Risk Assessment and Geometry

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders study the concept of risk analysis as it relates to geometry. In this spatial relationship lesson, 10th graders are provided a set of coordinates to analyze a piece of land described. Students write a description that...
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Real-World Linear Equations

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice technology skills through the use of a spreadsheet and a discovery lesson plan focusing upon linear equations. The technology allows for the visual changes to be displayed for different lines of equations.
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Outbreak!

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the spread of a disease through a population.  In this Algebra II lesson, 11th graders analyze graphical data representing they spread of a disease.  Students produce a graph of the virus data,...
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TOPSY TURVY MAPS

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use the data analyzer and motion detector to collect data and measure distances. They create topographic maps drawn to scale of a given setup and relate the concepts to the creation of historical ocean maps.
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Ellipse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of ellipses including finding the center, vertices's, foci and eccentricity. They assess how to graph elliptical functions and solve application problems involving ellipses. This assignment is to be completed...
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Ellipse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students find the center, vertices, foci, and eccentricity of ellipses using the subscriptions website www.explorelearning.com. They graph elliptical functions and solve application problems involving ellipses.
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CATCH, TAG and RELEASE

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students apply estimation strategies for problem-solving purposes. They become familiar with one aspect of a marine biologist's work.
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Marine & Aquatic Habitats Activities - Marine Ecology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students enact the life cycle of a sessile animal and quantify the possibility of survival under the conditions given. They then present to the class a new adaptation which will increase the animals chance of survival.
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Our Favorites

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students participate in and conduct a survey to determine various class favorites. They collect, organize and display their data, interpret the results, and complete a packet of worksheets to display the information.
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The Lift Equation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the FoilSim educational software program to complete an activity regarding lift. They solve a multivariable equation for each of the variables and apply the results to various problems in different situations.
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How Does a Spring Scale Work?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create visuals of the effect of a spring scale. In this algebra instructional activity, students use the navigator to graph the effects created by a spring scale. They draw conclusion from the graph.
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Polygons and Plane Figures

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students choose a polygon to define and describe, and use Power Point and the Internet to present their polygon.
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The Greatest Survival Story of All Time

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students use the Internet to read about an explorer's survival in the Antarctic. They try to find a better route for him to have taken.
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Geometric Lines: Parallel / Transversal / Perpendicular

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students in grade 7 and 8 work on outcomes related to spatial sense and geometric concepts, properties, and relationships. The lesson integrates technology and helps students be exposed to multimedia.
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Survey Project

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a website using FrontPage. They use inserted forms to collect survey information and use Microsoft Excel and MS Word to create a presentation of the survey and the results.

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