In this lesson, students use math and physics skills to follow directions when making cookies. This is a very detailed and structured lesson!

This site contains a lesson plan for high school age young scholars. The objective is to discover the factor of proportionality in similar polygons and to relate this factor to the perimeters and areas of similar polygons.

This site is a lesson plan for using a geoboard in a sixth grade geometry class. The lesson serves as an introduction to the geoboard and its uses in geometry. Some topics the lesson covers include helping to visualize shapes and and...

Looking for the epicenter of an earthquake and measuring the magnitude of waves are goals for students in this lesson plan for intermediate to middle school students. Students get to analyze the P and S waves.

This lab experiment has students observe and compare the density of five different liquids while measuring mass and volume.

Lesson plan that allows students to investigate the effect of water temperature on fish behavior. Students measure, collect data, and interpret the results.

This lesson plan familiarizes students in grades 4-6 with using the metric system and performing conversions.

This activity can be used to introduce the metric system to students.

In this lesson plan site, young scholars will define matter and compare properties of solids, liquids and gases.

A teacher lesson plan is provided here. This page describes two activities in which the effect of multiple resistors on the current and overall resistance of both series and parallel circuits are investigated. Complete activity...

This activity is a great way to show distance and time relationships while incorporating charts and graphing. Different sized tins are raced against each other, and data is collected.

A demonstration/lab idea for determining the numerical value of the universal gravitation constant using a torsion balance.

The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site on Physics. It is a student lab investigation in which students compare the concept and quantity of velocity to that of acceleration. Includes directions, ideas for assessment, a...

Learn about absorption in this hands-on science experiment. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what happens to different types of beans as they soak in water in a test vial.