This investigation is a lab where students find out if mass is created or destroyed in a closed system. Students will balance the chemical equation to re-enforce their findings.
This investigation is to help reinforce the idea that a mixture can be taken apart by physical means. It will be set up as a contest in which students will have 3 hours of class to separate as much pure substance as they can. These will be broken into percentages based on purity and the amount they have been able to separate. There is no procedure written so students have a completely open and inquiry based activity.
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.
This activity is a guided inquiry or demonstration where students investigate elastic potential energy and gravitational potential energy and interpret their findings as related to Newton's Laws of motion.
An ILD to help demonstrate the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns using an experiment.
This activity can be used to teach concepts how different densities of liquids can be layered and/or how the salinity of water affects the movement of ocean water.
This activity is a group activity where students investigate leaves and sort them based on established criteria.
This is a classroom activity where students will make plant rubbings and plant pressings of Minnesota plants.
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 new vocabulary, sharpen their map skills, and discover the scientific reasons some birds migrate.
This activity is a whole group guided inquiry activity/lecture where students will learn what dimensional analysis is, how to use dimensional analysis and learn more about why it is so important. It will provide the foundation for moving into stoichiometry.
This activity is an inquiry lesson where students investigate solids, liquids, and gases through a variety of hands on experiments tied into writing and illustration of observable results.
In this service learning project, college students work in groups of three to prepare a 55-minute interactive lesson on one of the topics listed on the syllabus and team teach the lesson to students at a local high school.
In this service learning project, college students work in groups of three to prepare a 55-minute interactive lesson on one of the topics listed on the syllabus and team teach the lesson to students at a local high school.
This is an interactive powerpoint lecture on the science of electricity followed by a laboratory investigation where students dissect a disposable camera.
The purpose of this exercise is to learn how to think about gravity, learn about scientific methodology, and transition from the Aristotelian to Newtonian to Einsteinian understanding of gravity.
The purpose of this exercise is to learn how to think about gravity, learn about scientific methodology, and transition from the Aristotelian to the Newtonian understanding of gravity.
This activity is a laboratory investigation where students observe images produced by concave and convex lenses, and how light travels through the lenses.
This activity is a active learning activity where students will observe and represent the layers of the Earth from the core to the lithosphere.
Students wear nametags of an ion and find others throughout the school with whom they can create ionic compounds.