The Guest Investigator Puzzle

A fantastic lesson on survival in outer space should excite your learners! Pupils explore the challenges that living, working, and surviving in space elicit. They focus on the spacesuit itself; how it protects astronauts, and enables...

Students are introduced to the concept of food safety. In groups, they distinguish between fact and opinion and cause and effect while participating in a board game. They write an essay about what knowledge they gained and review the...

Students list reasons why water is important and investigate and graph the freezing points of different solutions.

Students build their own vocabulary list and learn how to apply the terms.  In this animal investigation lesson students choose a category from a list and classify animals by their characteristics.  There are five different activities.

Students research aquatic plants and animals in their area, life cycles, and tide related behaviors. In this plants and animals lesson plan, students also come up with riddles about their plant or animal.

Sixth graders set up an ecosystem, investigate conservation techniques, develop an action plan for conservation, and various other activities to explore the ecosystem.

Sixth graders investigate ancient civilizations by creating a research project.  In this world history activity, 6th graders investigate historic civilizations developed close to important rivers of the near East.  Students create a...

Students investigate the Interstellar Medium and the Local Bubble that the Sun is inside. They read and discuss a handout, answer discussion questions, observe a demonstration of light scattering, and conduct an experiment on the...

Students investigate the cause and effect of skin cancer. They complete worksheets, view presentations and discuss the various types of ultraviolet rays and their impact on human health.

Students explain what a watershed is and where its located. They identify living things in a watershed including macro invertebrates. Students analyze effects of personal actions on the watershed.