Fabulous Fossils

Seventh graders study the parts of corn and explore the role of starch.  In this corn products lesson students prepare a model of water and stones.

Meteorologists view an animated video by the Environmental Protection Agency to learn how the carbon cycle works, and then move into groups to analyze and graph actual data of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration from Hawaii's...

You're not going to find lesson plans any better than those that are produced by The Washington Post. This one is all about insects, and it's a fabulous lesson! It's packed with terrific teaching ideas, student worksheets, website links,...

Students identify which parts of the earth are solids, liquids or gases. They discover the need to conserve natural resources. They examine different products and what materials are used to make them.

It is recommended that you conduct this fabulous experiment as a whole-class demonstration. Collect air samples from the environment, human exhalation, and car exhaust, then compare them for carbon dioxide content using bromthymol blue...

Students examine the basics about soil.  In this soil lesson students describe the physical properties of soil and explain what soil profile is. 

Seventh graders investigate fossils and how they are formed through viewing photographs of actual fossils on the World Wide Web; students create spreadsheets to display collected data, and create their own fossils.