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Space: Your Future Frontier?
Students explore careers in space and experience how math and science concepts are applied in the space program through an interactive video and cooperative group activities.
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10 by 10 Tessellations
Fifth graders, with a partner, create tessellation patterns by playing 10 by 10 Tessellations. They need to use critical thinking skills to decide if pattern block plane figures tessellate and how each block best fits into the pattern.
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Architectural Change
Students investigate the various types of architecture used in Los Angeles. They conduct Internet research, analyze the sequence of architectural development in the Los Angeles region, and create a presentation on a specific...
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Populations and Ecosystems
Sixth graders examine the factors that influence the stability of ecosystems. They construct a miniature ecosystem in a jar that includes plants, small fish, and snails, record the population changes over a period of four weeks, and...
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Hardy-Weinberg Made Easy: A Seventh Way
The purpose of this lesson is to slowly introduce the Hardy-Weinberg Law and population genetics to your students after you have completed Mendelian genetics. Using this format, you ease the students into the concept by relying on the...
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What Time Is It?
Fourth graders distinguish between analog and digital clocks and read time from both types. For this clock reading lesson, 4th graders discuss the types of clocks and the time zones. Students find times in specific time zones. Students...
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Mapping Natural Disasters
Students use Cartesian coordinates to plot current natural disasters. They relate location of natural disasters to their specific major project countries. Students tie in geometry within this lesson as connected to spatial relationships...
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Pie Charts
Students create their own pie chart about their total health, being comprised of physical, social, and mental health. They label each section physical, social, and mental, and label each section with the percentage they are trying to...
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Trophic Relationships, Cycling of Chemicals, Human Impact on Ecosystems and Conservation
Students explore how the energy flow through a system is related to trophic levels. They investigate how organisms affect the cycling of elements and water through the biosphere. Students participate in lab activities to observe ways...
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Put the Turkeys Where They Belong
In this turkeys in sequential order worksheet, students cut out and color four turkeys and then paste them in the correct sequential order on the worksheet.
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Make Patterns With Ice Cream
In this ice cream patterns worksheet, students cut out ten scoops of ice cream and two cones. Students team up with a partner and exchange matching different patterns for the other one to model.
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Economic Problems and Adjustments
This packet does not contain problems for students to solve, however it provides a complete description of the allocation of resources in a competitive market. One could send this resource home as an assigned reading or have students...
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A Walk in the Woods
Eighth graders observe and identify the different levels of the forest. In this forest zones instructional activity students observe, identify and name a variety of forest components and describe how humans impact the forest ecosystem.
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Earth's Journey Through Space
Students arrange various pictures of the Earth to identify its journey through space. In this Earth's rotation lesson, students use models of the Earth and demonstrate its journey through space. Students complete the worksheet about the...
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Jupiter's Weather Forecast
Students read information about Jupiter and the planet's weather. In this Jupiter weather instructional activity, students read information about Jupiter's weather. Students study a chart about the weather on Earth and Jupiter. Students...
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Urban and Rural Communities
Students discuss similarities and differences of urban and rural communities. In this urban and rural communities lesson, students compare urban and rural communities using a Venn Diagram. Students examine maps of each type of...
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Lesson 56
Sixth graders practice Least Common Multiple in fractions. In this fraction lesson, 6th graders look at two different fractions and find a common denominator. They sing a song to memorize mean, median, and mode.
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Building a Scale Model
Third graders create a model of the solar system. In this solar system lesson plan, 3rd graders create a scale model of the solar system. Working in pairs students solve mathematical problems to correctly measure the distance each planet...
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Learning From Leaves: A Look at Leaf Size
Students measure and analyze leaves from various environments. They discuss the environments, and make inferences about environmental variables that could have contributed to the differences in leaf size and texture.
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Functions Can Be Fun!
Eighth graders work together in groups to discover linear functions. They are giving a situation and they are to recreate it in their groups. They answer questions to complete the instructional activity.
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Corrosion/Plating/Electrolysis
Students familiarize themselves with half cell reactions, potential circuits, etc. They participate in a lab that includes a worksheet that guides them through an inquiry pertaining to the content. They complete a series of questions...
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Reading Maps of the East Pacific Rise
Students make qualitative and quantitative observations and use various maps to investigate the features of the East Pacific Rise The study actual bathymetric maps of the EPR region. They identify key features of the ridge and explore...
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Physical or Chemical- That Is the Question!
Students differentiate physical and chemical changes. In this chemistry lesson plan, students give examples of each type of change. They take the review quiz at the end of the lesson plan.
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Picture Graphs
First graders work with picture graphs, create their own individual graphs, and construct and read graphs.