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Measuring the Wind in the School Yard

For Students 7th - 10th
In this wind worksheet, students construct a wind speed and direction indicator. They calibrate it using a Beaufort wind scale and take at least five observations/measurements in the school yard. They answer questions about their results.
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Earth's Magnetic Pole

For Students 8th - 11th
In this Earth's magnetic pole worksheet, students use a diagram showing the changes in the magnetic pole of the Earth over time. Students use the given scale of the changes to answer 6 questions about the average speed of the magnetic...
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Temple 1-Close-Up of a Comet!

For Students 9th - 12th
For this comet worksheet, students solve 3 problems using a composite image of the Temple 1 comet. Students determine the scale image, the size of the nucleus of the comet and the height of a cliff on the comet.
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LRO-Searching for Lunar Boulders

For Students 8th - 12th
In this lunar boulders worksheet, students use an image taken by the LRO satellite of the surface of the moon to find the scale of the image and determine the number of boulders and their approximate sizes.
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Why Do Hot Air Balloons Float?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this gases activity, students read about the Kelvin scale of temperature, they answer 3 fill in the blank questions about the relationship between temperature and pressure and they plot the temperature and pressure of gas samples at...
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Improvising in the Birthplace of Jazz

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students recognize significant developments in New Orleans jazz music. They improvise blues licks using notes from a minor pentatonic scale.
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Bedroom Floor Plan

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students identify and compare the characteristics of floor plans and zoning to family activities and needs. They draw an accurate floor plan--either existing or a work in progress to scale. Then, students roughly sketch their bedroom...
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Bead Play

For Students 3rd
In this balancing a scale worksheet, 3rd graders observe two different types of wooden beads on three scales to answer each of the three questions. Students draw each bead at 2, 3 and 4 ounces and answer 2 word problems.
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Probability

For Students 4th - 6th
In this probability worksheet, learners determine the probability of events using a probability scale and write events with only two outcomes. In this short answer worksheet, students write answers to eleven questions.
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Indicators For Acids and Bases

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders compare the color of cabbage water when acids and bases are mixed in. In this acids and bases lesson plan, 4th graders use cabbage water and mix in acids and bases that the teacher prepares before hand. They observe the...
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Star Circles

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this star circles worksheet, students solve six problems given a diagram of a time-exposure photograph of the stars. Students determine the scale of the image, the location of the North Celestial Pole, they identify Polaris and they...
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Planet Earth in Cross Section

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students will examine the layers of the Earth. In this geology lesson, students create a scale model of the Earth's interior using cash register tape. They will determine the percentage of error in the scale compared to the actual size...
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Weight Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students estimate and compare grapefruit weights. In this weight measurement and literacy lesson, students listen to the story Nate's Big Hair and the Grapefruit in There, then estimate the weight of a grapefruit after holding it....
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Seeing Solar Storms in STEREO-I

For Students 8th - 10th
In this geometric calculations of solar storms worksheet, students use a diagram indicating the location of 2 STEREO satellites, the earth and the sun to calculate the distance between a Coronal Mass Ejection and the Earth. They use...
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Conditions at Sea

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine wave formation. In this wave instructional activity, students discover how waves are formed and how the weather at sea is predicted. Students study ocean vocabulary and understand the Beaufort Wind Force Scale.
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Scale and Real Measurements

For Students 4th - 6th
In this measurement worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer, first measuring objects to scale, then measuring the actual object for "real" measurement.
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Scaling Figures Two

For Students 5th - 8th
In this similar figures worksheet, students find the missing side of the larger figure when the smaller figure's sides are given. Students complete 4 problems.
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Geologic Time Scale

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research the geologic time scale. They create and recognize the importance of a geologic time line.
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Shizuko’s Daughter: Knowledge Rating Scale

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
How well do your kids know key terms from Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori? Have them review a list of words that they will encounter in the novel, and mark which words they know well, which words they've seen before, and which...
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Knowledge Rating Scale Vocabulary Activity #2 Bud, Not Buddy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As your kids read chapters nine through eleven, present them with this vocabulary chart. Nine vocabulary words are shown, and pupils must decide if they know it well, have heard it, or have no clue what it means. Consider re-creating...
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Scaling Up Art

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners measure a sculpture of a human and measure other students. They determine the average size of humans and create a life size image of the sculpture. They work with percentages as they create the images.
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Customized Topographic Maps and Models

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils explore the information depicted on topographic maps. They construct a 3-D topographic map of a local area. They go on a field trip to the depicted area and compare the 'real world' with their models.
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Essential Elements of Habitat

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare their local area with the Belize landscape. They construct maps of the school area, adding descriptive information. They write haiku poems about their favorite outside places.
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Measurement 3: Rulers

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this measurement worksheet, young scholars measure the linear distance, in inches, between stated objects. Next, they determine the actual distance, in miles.

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