Class Member Diversity - Level I

It's a classification sensation! Demystify why we classify using an inquiry activity that helps your class sort things out. Groups begin by classifying a variety of shoes before they research organisms and design their own dichotomous...

In this fill in the blank worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer questions by identifying foods that contain large amounts of sugar, carbohydrate, and fruit acids and explaining their effects on the body.

And the prize for oldest living thing on Earth goes to . . . In this video from PBS Digital Studios, viewers learn about the oldest living things on Earth, all over 2,000 years old, such as bristlecone pines, baobab, sea grass,...

Can your class solve the riddle? A video from the Physics Girl playlist tackles the puzzle of Pascal's Principle. Viewers observe as a series of connected tanks fill up and try to guess which will fill first. The narrator shows the...

Why do sweaty humans smell like onions and cumin? Explore antiperspirant and deodorant chemistry with a fact-filled video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions playlist. Topics include odor-causing agents, components of underarm...

A video that demonstrates the process for cooling atoms launches a journey to comprehend physics. After watching the video, class members answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions to prepare for a whole-class discussion of the...

Skeletons may not be able to speak, but they can still tell us a lot. High schoolers watch a short video about the ways biological anthropologists can use a skeleton's bone structure to determine age, gender, place of birth, and social...

Go with the flow! The first video of a seven-part series about the Earth's water resources introduces learners to the water cycle. With an emphasis on cause and effect, it presents the information simply through animation. And, with the...

How can a chemist tell what gas a chemical reaction produced? Part two of a ten-part series prompts pupils to discover a number of simple tests that can reveal the identity of a gas. The video reinforces the concepts of solubility,...

Ready to heat things up in the lab, but your class doesn't know its way around a Bunsen burner? Scholars get familiar with heating apparatuses through a series of puzzles designed to promote vocabulary and reasoning skills. The...