This activity allows students to investigate classification and create their own dichotomous key. Discussion will include classification of items in everyday life.
This peer review of writing tool helps students improve their writing by asking their peers in the class to provide feedback in a constructive manner.
Students will utilize factually observed or researched information in a creative high interest-writing project.
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students estimate travel times and costs of a driving/camping trip to visit national parks in the Colorado Plateau.
Students will fill in a blank periodic table for elements 1-20 using electron-dot models. As a visual tool students should see several periodic trends.
This experiment illustrates the value of exchange to students through trading of candy.
This activity is a indoor lab where students gather data within their school to develop the concept of displacement in two dimensional motion.
Students work in groups to find a "treasure" using a treasure map with directions written in vector format.
Compare lifting a bowling ball directly (one small person) to lifting a bowling ball at an angle with two people holding the ends of a rope and the ball hooked to the middle of the rope.
This is a computer lab activity where students view images of stars, nebulas, and galaxies and discover factors in telescope design that allow scientists to study the universe. The students will write questions about the images and produce a power point presentation on features of the universe.
The use of new technological motion sensing cameras creates a motivation for students in this life science lesson.
This is a virtual lab activity on the photoelectric effect based on a Java applet simulation of the experiment.
Students explore the motion of molecules and the ways in which they interact.
The activity walks the students through the processes of Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration.
This is a vocabulary building game based on matching words with definitions.
This write-pair-share activity presents Calculus II students with a worksheet containing several exercises that require them to find the volume of solids of revolution using disk, washer and shell methods and to sketch three-dimensional representations of the resulting solids.
This activity provides students with a first look at water tension and its role in the life of a water strider.
This activity provides students with a first look at water tension and its role in the life of a water strider.
This activity investigates water when it freezes and how other solid items sink or float in water.
In this science lab, students investigate Newton's Laws of Motion. Students will make and fly water bottle rockets, as well as measure the height of each rocket's flight.