Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparing Microscopic Organisms in Fresh and Polluted Water: An Invitation To Inquiry

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils have the opportunity to develop and formulate ideas and explanations through the scientific standard of inquiry. They identify organisms by using an identification key for specific aquatic geographical area.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dogs & Darwin

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders construct and conduct a laboratory experiment illustrating the transfer of mutations. They compare and contrast natural selection in organisms with long and short reproductive cycles.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Natural Selection Foldable

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students examine and identify examples of species that developed as a result of immigration, genetic drift, and adaptive radiation. They conduct Internet research and define key vocabulary terms, and use their species example on their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who Am I?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore study different mathematicians. In this mathematician lesson, students research twelve mathematicians. Students question one another to guess who their mathematician is. Students create a timeline of big events in math.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate Social Darwinism. In this government systems lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on the details of Social Darwinism and American laissez-faire capitalism. Students respond to discussion...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fossils and Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore fossils and dinosaurs. In this science lesson, students discuss how fossils are created. Students draw muscles and skin on a stegosaurus.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Post- Modernism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners participate in a lesson that investigates post-modernism in American literature. They conduct the lesson with the help of reading "America" by Ginsberg to create context. Then students define the genre and the culture that has...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Half Life Lab

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders model radioactive decay using pennies, collect data from their model, apply scientific visualization techniques to their data and create animated models explaining the concept of radioactive half-life.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Women's Brains

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experience an example of bias in science dealing with women and gender.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sea Ice and Satellites

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study satellites and satellite images using Google Earth. In this satellite lesson, students discuss satellites and how they work. Students watch a demonstration of how satellites work and learn what they are used for. Students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

North Dakota Plants with Lewis and Clark

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders identify native plants of North Dakota. They compare the plants found on native prairie with the plants described in the Lewis and Clark journals. They present the information they have collected in an electronic format...
Lesson Plan
Museums Victoria

Melbourne Museum: Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Although this is an education kit intended to accompany an exhibition on evolution at this museum. it is useful for high school Biology classes for its excellent background information on the latest ideas about the theory of evolution,...
Lesson Plan
Other

Cte Online: Butte County Office of Education: Evolution and Embryos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A detailed lesson with downloadable PowerPoints and student handouts that examines how the study of comparative embryology provides support for the theory of evolution.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Science and Religion

For Teachers 11th - 12th
A lesson using the strategy of structured academic controversy where learners explore the roots of differing perspectives on evolution, In the process, they develop a deepened understanding of science and religion, and tolerance for...

Other popular searches