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Tracking Hurricanes
Students explore how technology and science are used to identify, measure, and track powerful tropical storms to better warn and secure people from their impact. They research hurricanes online by tracking the storms on a hurricane website.
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Nature And Nurture
Students develop an understanding of the role both nature and nurture play in determining an individual's traits. Using a website, students answer questions about nature and nurture in order to solve the riddle, What do you call a smart...
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Medieval Mathematicians and Whimsical Windows
Third graders demonstrate their mathematical knowledge of symmetry and reflection using congruent geometric shapes while working as an artist and mathematician looking at a medieval-styled stained glass window.
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Examine Your Attitudes
Students complete a survey about their attitudes toward herps--reptiles and amphibians. They compare their findings, tally them, graph them, and administer the survey to others. Later, they create an education campaign to dispel myths...
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Things Are Heating Up!
Third graders study how heat is produced from mechanical and electrical machines and human activities.
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How is a Hot Dog Like a Shoe?
Students create and explain analogies that reveal the depth of their understanding of new concepts.
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Africanized Honey Bees And Society
Students investigate how information is disseminated about honey bees and other insects. They make a list of key words and phrases, or even write a brief summary of their impressions of insects and their relatives after viewing the movie.
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Water Pollution - Group Presentation
Learners investigate water pollution at a web site and apply it toward a group presentation.
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Mammal Anatomy Learning Cycle Lesson Plan
Ninth graders explore the anatomical and physiological structure of mammals and compare the different structures.
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Mammals - Habitat/diversity Learning Cycle Lesson Plan
Ninth graders explore the characteristics and diversity of mammals, including key adaptations.
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Exothermic Reactions
Young scholars experiment, observe, measure, and analyze what occurs during an exothermic reaction. They safely design an experiment, control variables, and properly dispose of materials.
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Probability: The Study of Chance
Students practice the basic principles of probability by conducting an experiment, determining if a game is fair, collecting data, interpreting data, displaying data, conducting analysis, and stating and applying the rule for probability.
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The Seasons of Thanks
First graders explain the Native American cyclical concept of time
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Bag the Beans
Learners work in pairs to sort several beans into different piles according to a rule they make up. They use manipulatives to solve complex mathematical problems.
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PERIODICAL CICADA SURVIVAL
Students explore defense mechanisms involved in predatory/prey relationships.
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Changes in Matter
Eighth graders, in groups, explain the difference between physical and chemical changes.
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Are You Charged?
Fourth graders study the charges on ions and familiarize themselves with a quick way to remember charges based on location of elements on the periodic table. They complete a worksheet and share their answers with the class.
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Who Gets Eaten? A Study of Natural Selection
Fourth graders represent a new predator on a population of colored worms. They mathematically determine the effect of the new predator on the survival and reproductive rates of the worms, simulating natural selection at work.
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SLAVE TRADING AND SMALL TOWNS
Learners research the ways slavery shaped social and economic life in the South after 1800, the different economic, cultural, and social characteristics of slavery after 1800, and how the Atlantic slave trade finally ended.
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Energy Busters: Home Energy Conservation
Students survey home energy use and develop an energy conservation plan.
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Lesson 28: Introduction to Illinois Government
Fourth graders research and compare the United States and Illinois Governments. They play the game Who Wans To Be A Millionaire.
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Fact, Fiction, or Bad Memory
Students identify bias in how the events of the Boston Massacre were reported. They attempt to determine who is to blame for the Boston Massacre by determining the reliability the of sources.
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Scientists
Students explore the role scientists play in research. They research current important areas of scientific interest. They write about how this issue could affect them. They create posters about their chosen scientific issues.
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