Blow their minds with a activity on the search for life outside of our planet! A brief video proposes the question of how to define life. A couple of articles investigate the possibility of alien existence. Finally, the class is divided...

Tenth graders study how to search for life in outer space and make use of the 40-foot radio telescope at Greenbank, West Virginia. Request that the telescope be pointed at a particular location and time and receive data back from it...

Learners complete a WebQuest where they research the Internet for extraterrestrial intelligence. In this extraterrestrial lesson plan, students also explore how the Drake Equation can predict the occurrence of life elsewhere.

Students explore space. In this current events activity, students visit selected websites to learn about NASA, Mars, the Seti Institute, and space exploration terminology. Students make space glossaries and their own telescopes.

Students build a scale model of the Solar System and determine the time other planets take to travel around the Sun in comparison to the time of the Earth's revolution. The velocity of the planets are also determined in this lesson.

Students explore the characteristics that distinguish different forms of animal life on Earth which are the results of natural selection and adaptations to their environment. The creatures are created using a game and then drawn by the...

Students examine gas production in "soil" samples through hands on activities and class discussions, to determine if the soil samples have contain living or non-living systems.

Eighth graders complete labs to find the specific heat of many different types of substances, and use characteristic property to identify an unknown metal. CBL be used to determine energy lost or gained, and students complete a...

In this grammar worksheet, students fill in forty blanks with the appropriate helping/linking verb as requested and then fill in ten blanks in sentences with either doesn't or don't.

In this grammar worksheet, students copy down a paragraph changing all the underlined verbs from the simple past to the present.

In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the correct form of the verb in parentheses in past tense in thirty sentences. Students check to make sure each one is grammatically correct.

In this grammar worksheet, students drop the there, rearrange the remaining words and choose the appropriate verb that completes ten sentences grammatically correct.

In this grammar worksheet, learners correct the incorrect underlined verbs right above each one in twenty sentences. Students share their answers with their classmates.

In this grammar worksheet, students underline the subject and then choose the correct verb in parentheses that correctly completes twenty sentences.

For this grammar worksheet, students rewrite twenty sentences by changing the subject from plural to singular or singular to plural. Students keep all the verbs in the present tense.

In this grammar worksheet, students write the word that the who, which or that relates to in each sentence and then circle the correct verb in parentheses that makes each sentence grammatically correct.

In this grammar worksheet, students circle the complete subject and underline the complete verb in twenty-five sentences. Students share their answers with their classmates to check their papers.

In this grammar instructional activity, students circle the appropriate verb in parentheses that makes twenty-five sentences grammatically correct.

In this grammar worksheet, students underline the subject in twenty-five sentences and then circle the correct verb in parentheses that makes each one grammatically correct.

In this grammar learning exercise, students rewrite nine sentences by adding the forms of be (is, was, were, has or have) to each one making each grammatically correct.

In this grammar instructional activity, students rewrite a paragraph and change all the underlined verbs from simple past tenses to present tenses.

In this grammar activity, students fill in fifty blanks with the correct form of to be (am, is, are, has, have, doesn't or don't) on the lines provided that make each phrase or sentence grammatically correct.

Ever made solar s'mores? Or recreated the solar system using peanuts? Astronomers young and old investigate all things solar using a variety of activities. Explore how the sun works, types of light it emits, and methods of charting the...

Students examine the possibilities of communication with other living organisms within our solar system through research and hands on activities, as well as observing and analyzing teacher demonstrations.