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Gravity, Forces, and Inertia

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners participate in assessments involving gravity, forces, and inertia. They select from a menu of options assessments they would like to complete including worksheets, drawing posters, watching videos, creating crossword puzzles,...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-The Gadget War

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read The Gadget War by Betsy Duffey. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding inventors and inventions. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections.
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Principles of Physics: A Real Scream!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply their knowledge of the physics principles of force, energy and motion to researching the physics behind amusement park rides.
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Is It Kinetic or Potential ?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore real life activities that demonstrate kinetic and potential energy. They, in groups, classify the activity card statements as kinetic or potential. They should also include where the potential and kinetic energy...
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Picture This!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase comprehension through visualization. They make pictures in their heads about what they read and draw on paper a picture of what they visualized. They write about the picture at the bottom of the page to help them...
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It's All about Expression

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice rereading selected passages to improve their reading fluency. Working in pairs, 1st graders read and reread decodable, leveled passages. They create a tape recording of their reading to assess their fluency and use...
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Measuring Body Parts

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students engage in a lesson plan to measure body parts. They use the measuring tape to record the data of body measurements. Students must choose the appropriate unit of measurement and compare the data for the different parts of the...
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The History of Computers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the people and inventions related to computers. They research famous people for each invention they created and create a timeline of the inventor and his inventions. They present an oral presentation about the person for...
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Kinetic Vs. Potential Energy

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders listen to a teacher lecture and observe a demonstration of both potential energy and stored energy. After discussing the characteristics and examples of different types of energy, 8th graders make predictions and then...
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The Three States of Matter

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify properties of solids, liquids, and gasses. In this states of matter lesson, the teacher demonstrates the properties of each state of matter, then students go on a scavenger hunt for items to represent each state...
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Discovery Science Library: The Basics Physical Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine  friction and gravity. affect four sports. In this scientific discovery lesson, students examine how friction and gravity affect sports. They discuss, write, and illustrate the effect of different forces on various...
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Energy, Work and Power

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the differences between potential and kinetic energy.  In this physics instructional activity students view a video and apply what they learn about energy to apply it to real world situations. 
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A Day at the Fair

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners explore the American tradition of state and county fairs. In this American fairs activity, students read an article about American fairs and complete a five senses table for experiences at fairs. Learners role play a family...
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Measure for Measure: Weight and Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study the friction of a particular sport.  In this weight and energy lesson students choose a sport and us the Internet to research it then present their findings to the class. 
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Adam's Apples

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars examine the /a/ phoneme in both written and spoken words. They practice finding the /a/ in words, watch how their mouths move when making the sound, and write the letter. Next, they differentiate the sound in words, listen...
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Everyone can explore architecture

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars draw like an architect. For this interdisciplinary lesson, students research and draw several examples of different forms of architecture through societies, cultures and times, then present them to the class.
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Richard Nixon: Man and President (2 parts)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners watch the video "Richard Nixon: Man and President, complete vocabulary work and discuss the video using the question provided.
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Kepler's Second Law

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils gain an understanding of Kepler's 2nd law--that planets (and satellites) move fastest at their closest approach to the center of attraction, and slow down when far away. They explore the concepts of "potential energy" and "kinetic...
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Kepler's Second Law

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore orbital velocities and how they vary along each orbit, according to Kepler's Second Law.
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Narrative Prompt

For Teachers K
Students write to describe a summer activity. They read a book about the seasons. They describe grab bag props and how they are used in summer.
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Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a reading skills lesson to improve reading comprehension. The skill of visualization is taught and practiced to help them better understand the plot of a story.
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Discovering Math Concepts in Advanced Algebra

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the concept of Chinese contributions in mathematics. In this Chinese contributions in mathematics activity, students research Chinese achievements in mathematics. Students solve 3x3 systems of equations using the...
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Understanding Needs and Feelings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify needs and feelings. In this character education lesson, students read two passages about being shy and scared. Students create an ending to the story on their own.
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Boolean Algebra

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils play a series of games involving Boolean logic.  For this Boolean Algebra lesson, students participate in games such as "George Boole Says" to explore Boolean logic.  The format of the lesson is difficult to read.

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