Students investigate the properties of polymers. In this chemistry lesson, students explain the importance of energy sources. They produce a bioplastic from the lab and evaluate its structural integrity.

First graders explain what keeps Polar Bears warm in the Arctic by experiencing a layer of blubber to protect them. They read Little Polar Bear by Hans de Beer.

Students demonstrate their understanding of resourcefulness by making a toy and describing how they were resourceful. They find Malawi on a map and tell the interesting things about the book Galimoto.

Students explore how temperature affects the processes of evaporation and condensation.

Students examine the information given on food labels. They also discover what a serving size is and determine how much they eat over the suggested serving. They also calculate the number of calories are in different foods.

Students conduct investigations to demonstrate and learn that air takes up space, and puts pressure, or pushes, on everything around it. They conduct experiments to learn about feeling air pressure and measuring air pressure. Prior to...

Students work in small groups with a small set of 8 nuts and 5 bolts to assemble into combinations of 1 nut: 1 bolt, and 2 nuts: 1 bolt. They explore the outcome and discuss. Then a student mixes two clear, colorless solutions together...

Eighth graders create a classification system of the planets and give a written rational for their choice of categories.  In this investigative lesson students participate in an activity that helps them to explore classification.

Students explore the letter P and things that start with the letter P. They read The Popcorn Book by Tomie DePola. Students discuss things that start with the letter P. They plant their own popcorn plant and watch as the popcorn seeds...

Learners discover data sampling. In this science lesson plan, students explore data sampling and turn the data collected into useful information by making graphs and using them to solve problems.

Students compare slime recipes. In this properties of matter lesson, students make Oobleck and glurch and compare the properties of each and examine the solid and liquid properties of them.

Ninth graders study the effects of soil and rocks on filtering groundwater.  In this groundwater lesson students complete a lab activity that includes sources of contamination. 

Students explore the concept of environmental stewardship. For this science lesson, students investigate data from the International Coastal Cleanup, identify sources of marine debris, and discover the impacts of this debris on wildlife.

Students measure objects in the classroom. For this measurement lesson, students compare items using their height, use paper clips to measure things and record their findings.

Second graders explore fractions with a worksheet and marbles. In this fraction lesson, 2nd graders recognize the fractional parts of a shape pictured and find equal fractions.

Students investigate landfills. For this edible landfill lesson, students replicate the structure sanitary landfills as they use the listed foods to build a model.

Students investigate plate tectonics by observing a cracked egg shell.  In this Earth science lesson, students draw borders of continents on an egg shell, only to watch it crack in a glass.  Students record the breakup of the...

Students explain the importance of recycling. In this environmental science lesson, students classify materials as recyclable or not. They make posters that promote the benefits of recycling.

In this activity, students have the opportunity to step away from the daily life of their school community and examine its culture from the point of view of someone from the future.

Students experiment with water, temperature and paper to explore how convection currents occur and how they are used to explain the movement of the Earth's plates.

Students develop the concept that magnets attract and repel items and exert a magnetic field that can vary in strength.

Students demonstrate the relationship between stress and strain, then graph stress-strain curves for various common materials. Students interpret graphed results and discuss differences in mechanical properties of materials.

Students, by participating in a classroom toy store, are introduced to the penny.

Seventh graders, in groups, complete an Isotopes model and notice that atomic masses are decimal numbers. These masses are an average of all the isotopes of that element.