Knowitall.org is an educational platform that offers a wide range of media …
Knowitall.org is an educational platform that offers a wide range of media assets and lesson plans for preK-12 learners. Created by South Carolina ETV in collaboration with various partners, this resource is optimized for tablets and mobile devices, making it ideal for one-to-one learning. Here’s what you’ll find on Knowitall:
The Cool and the Strong: This scripted series helps students discover joy in learning, even when faced with challenges. Explore a variety of engaging media assets and lesson plans designed to enhance the educational experience. Over 10,000 Media Assets and Lessons: Knowitall features an extensive collection of videos and lessons. Whether you’re a teacher, student, or parent, you’ll find valuable content to support STEM education. Anniversary Milestone: On November 4, 2020, Knowitall.org launched its new website, bringing together lesson plans from LearningWhy and media resources from KnowItAll.org in one convenient place
This is a lab where the students trap oxygen produced underwater in …
This is a lab where the students trap oxygen produced underwater in 2 different conditions--low light and high light intensities. This is perfect for those using aquaponics in there curriculum. The lesson offers various designs, under various conditions and brain storms different variables.
This course introduces experimental biochemical and molecular techniques from a quantitative engineering …
This course introduces experimental biochemical and molecular techniques from a quantitative engineering perspective. Experimental design, data analysis, and scientific communication form the underpinnings of this subject. Three discovery-based experimental modules focus on RNA engineering, protein engineering, and cell-biomaterial engineering.This OCW site is based on the source OpenWetWare class Wiki, 20.109(S10): Laboratory Fundamentals of Biological Engineering.
This activity is an on-line research activity in which students research different …
This activity is an on-line research activity in which students research different Minnesota lakes and determine their physical characteristics, chemical characteristics, and the overall health of the lake.
In high school, Gena and Ali set out to learn about the …
In high school, Gena and Ali set out to learn about the geophysical forces acting on Lake Superior. They wanted to investigate why they would sometimes see such dramatic fluctuations in Lake Superior water levels. They learned that large lakes exhibit a phenomenon called a seiche (pronounced saysh) and they decided to investigate how often the water switched directions and how much the water level changed because of the seiche.
This activity was evaluated using the HQIM rubric linked here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hZqpmXhKFV1ltE8PbdtFJzRvwcvdA-bDQ_-Kw29cci8/edit?usp=sharing
In the strategic building game Lakeland, you’ve decided to build a new …
In the strategic building game Lakeland, you’ve decided to build a new town called Lakeland. In order to grow your town and keep your people alive, you need food and resources.
Luckily, you’ve got some friendly advisors to help you get started. Your Farm Advisor shows you how to grow corn. Now your people have food! Then you start a dairy farm. People love dairy. Milk, cheese, ice cream… what could go wrong?
As it turns out, a lot. Cows don’t just produce milk. They also produce lots and lots of poop, which means the lakes your people love are about to turn into a toxic cesspool of blue-green algae. Your mission: grow your town without destroying their lakes.
This game puts kids in charge of building their own town. Players add houses and farms, export produce, and manage resources like food, money, and manure. Students will get an introduction to the complex relationship between farming, soil nutrition, and lake pollution.
This reading seminar examines land, water, food, and climate in a changing …
This reading seminar examines land, water, food, and climate in a changing world, with an emphasis on key scientific questions about the connections between natural resources and food production. Students read and discuss papers on a range of topics, including water and land resources, climate change, demography, agroecology, biotechnology, trade, and food security. The readings are supplemented by short lectures that provide context and summarize main points. The seminar provides a broad perspective on one of the defining global issues of this century. Students consider scientific controversies as well as areas of general agreement and examine practical solutions for addressing critical problems.
Waste disposal has been an ongoing problem since medieval times. Environmental engineers …
Waste disposal has been an ongoing problem since medieval times. Environmental engineers are employed to develop technologies to dispose of the enormous amount of trash produced in the United States. In this lesson, students will learn about the three methods of waste disposal in use by modern communities. They will also investigate how engineers design sanitary landfills to prevent leachate from polluting the underlining groundwater.
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet La'ona DeWilde, an …
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet La'ona DeWilde, an environmental biologist who integrates her Athabascan heritage and her Western scientific training to help remote Alaskan villages address environmental issues.
Series of 43 page-size maps showing the chronology of the last glaciation's …
Series of 43 page-size maps showing the chronology of the last glaciation's advances and retreats across Wisconsin. Includes a brief discussion about how the maps were made, how lake positions were determined, as well as a list of selected references.
This activity is a field investigation where students compare leaves, share observations …
This activity is a field investigation where students compare leaves, share observations and develop an investigable question to be explored by the class in small groups.
This activity is a classroom introduction to bird migration. Students will acquire …
This activity is a classroom introduction to bird migration. Students will acquire new vocabulary, sharpen their map skills, and discover the scientific reasons some birds migrate.
This resource focuses on acid rain, the effects of acid rain on …
This resource focuses on acid rain, the effects of acid rain on the ecosystems, humans, and materials as well as what people can do to help. This resource has a history timeline of the Acid Rain Program, 9 experiments, various activities, and games/puzzles with answer keys to all materials as well.
" This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific …
" This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Milton and Ford. It compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing. The primary theme of the class is to explore how England in the mid-seventeenth century became "a world turned upside down" by the new ideas and upheavals in religion, politics, and philosophy, ideas that would shape our modern world. Paying special attention to the "theatricality" of the new models and perspectives afforded by scientific experimentation, the class will read plays by Shakespeare, Tate, Brecht, Ford, Churchill, and Kushner, as well as primary and secondary texts from a wide range of disciplines. Students will also compose and perform in scenes based on that material."
In Legend of the Lost Emerald, kids take on the role of …
In Legend of the Lost Emerald, kids take on the role of maritime archaeologists exploring shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. Like real archaeologists, players use sonar and GPS coordinates, dive down to take underwater photos, and search for clues in historical artifacts, like letters and ship manifests, to tell the story of each shipwreck. We teamed up with maritime archaeologists at Wisconsin Sea Grant and amazing teacher fellows from across the state of Wisconsin to design a game that works in the classroom and introduces kids to the tools and practices of the field.
Teachers can use this game to introduce kids to historical practices and themes from ecology, technology, and Wisconsin history. Students will learn about the role of maritime archaeologists, archivists, historians, and museum curators. The game introduces four different time periods in maritime history, ranging from wooden schooners in the mid-1800s to steel freighters in the 1960s.
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