by Jeff Orlinsky

It is the start of a new year and you are looking for new way to start your class.  How about introducing the scientific method with this simple (more…)

by Valerie Joyner

What better way to start the school year than with a science investigation?  It’s a great tool to set the tone for a year full of science and at the same time help students get to know each other.  One of my favorite first day of school science (more…)

by Amanda L. Smith

Gardener’s: Linguistic; Visual-Spatial; Bodily-Kinesthetic; Interpersonal; Logical-Mathematical
Bloom’s: Knowledge; Comprehension; Application

CA State Standards:
Investigation and Experimentation (Middle School grades 6-8)

Anticipatory Set/Objective:

• Students will be able to: State the values of and abbreviations for each of the prefixes used in the metric system.
• Students will be able to: Convert from one subunit to another subunit within a given unit of the metric system.

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by Laura Henriques and Katie Beck

CSTs and AP exams are over.  Students and teachers can all breathe a sigh of relief. (more…)

Courtesy of the California Academy of Sciences

Through this lesson, students will learn what organisms are affected by ocean acidification by taking on the role of one of the stakeholders affected by ocean acidification and creating poster(s) to address their issue(s). (more…)

by Rick Pomeroy

Non-Verbal Communications, Aka The Waggle Dance

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by Camilla Barry

Major Science Concept: Successful pollination results in seed production.

Subject: Botany (more…)

by Judy Scotchmoor

Overview:
In this lesson, students are challenged to discover the relationship among six numbers. The objective of this activity is to engage students in a problem-solving situation (more…)