Balanced reactions assessment
(View Complete Item Description)Students will describe how atoms are and are not conserved in a reaction. Students will attempt to correct and unbalanced reaction.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
All resources in CESA #12 Science 6-9
Levels of Organization Amusement Park Assesssment
(View Complete Item Description)This is a fun assessment project used to determine if students can understand the different levels of organization in the body, from cells to tissues, tissues to organs, and organs to organ systems. Students will make a comparison of these levels to rides at an amusement park, and their analagies/comparisons will illustrate their understanding or lack of understanding.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Electromagnetic fields assessment
(View Complete Item Description)Students will diagram their knowledge that magnetic fields extend outward from an electromagnet. Students will demonstrate the field strength depends on the voltage supplied and the number of coils.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
The Human Microbiome
(View Complete Item Description)The Human Microbiome offers an opportunity to learn about microbiology and ecology. Here is a collection of companion activities to help explore the subject further. Includes culturing microbes activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Learning Task
Brilliant-Math and science done right
(View Complete Item Description)Learn through interactive problem solving – proven to be more effective than lectures. Enjoy interactive explorations written by award-winning teachers, researchers, and professionals. Brilliant guides you through an interactive exploration of concepts and principles, and helps you build your quantitative intuition. Learn frameworks for thinking and solving challenging problems, instead of memorizing formulas.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Module
STEM Task Sheet /SoftSkills Rubric
(View Complete Item Description)Weekly Task Sheet/Soft Skills Rubric for Self Assessment
Material Type: Assessment Item, Self Assessment
Your Weight on The Planets
(View Complete Item Description)Students will calculate their weight on planets in our solar system. Students will conduct an experiment to calculate how far they can perform a standing long jump on the moon and planets too!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Simulating Natural Selection
(View Complete Item Description)In this video, we avoid telling the creatures what their survival chances are and let them figure it out themselves. This is the fifth in the series on evolution.
Material Type: Simulation
Exploring Our Growing Need for Water
(View Complete Item Description)On Day 1, students will explore groundwater and how the depletion of groundwater can cause land subsidence in regions like California’s Central Valley. Students will also learn about how agricultural water use for different crops compares to the amount of water required for raising animals on farms and ranches. On Day 2, students will read some of the Blue Planet Network’s Stories of Water to learn about how different people around the world struggle to have access to clean water and some of the ways they have addressed this issue. They will also explore their own water use habits and ways they can reduce water waste in their home using a water calculator from the Alliance for Water Efficiency and a leaky faucet calculator from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Water Science School.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Chemical reactions assessment
(View Complete Item Description)Students evaluate data and models to decide how matter and energy was or was not conserved.
Material Type: Assessment
Properties of light with Gummy Bears
(View Complete Item Description)Using a red laser, students will explore how red, green and clear bears reflect, transmit and absorb light.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Developing models of molecules
(View Complete Item Description)Used as a formative or summative assessment, students create their own way of modeling carbon dioxide.
Material Type: Formative Assessment, Interim/Summative Assessment
Newtons Laws in Space
(View Complete Item Description)Over approximately 10 days students learn how Newton's Laws are observed in space life.Students complete a noteguide as they read and article, watch videos from the ISS (International Space Station) and complete hands-on activities in class. As a final assessment students explain the laws to a future astronaut. A rubric for the writing is included.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Potential Kinetic energy in Roller coasters
(View Complete Item Description)Students identify and describe potential and kinetic energy changes that happen on a roller coaster track.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
Reflection, transmission and absorption of waves
(View Complete Item Description)Students drip water into a shallow pan of water to observe waves reflecting and absorbing. A block of wood is used for reflecting waves and paper towling is used to absorb waves.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Roller coaster inquiry lab
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore the relationship between potential and kinetic energy in roller coasters while competing to score the most points. The track is made of foam pipe insulation available at home improvement stores, and the riders are marbles and or steel bearings. Two versions of the activity are attached. The full activity can take up to a week and includes greater detail, calculations of PE and KE and reflection questions. The inquiry only version is used as an introduction activity only and takes only two class periods.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Baking Reactions Inquiry
(View Complete Item Description)Students complete an inquiry lab, typically at home or in a lab kitchen. They can split a recipe into fourths, use the original as a control and modify three other versions, increasing, decreasing or changing one ingredient. For example, we have found that reducing the butter by half or reducing the sugar by half does not significantly change the overall quality of baked sweets and can reduce their negative health impacts.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Conservation of Mass Lab
(View Complete Item Description)Students use two double replacement reactions in sealed test tubes to investigate whether mass changes during a reaction.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Cardboard Robotic Hand
(View Complete Item Description)This is a great STEAM project from Instructables where the student will create a basic robotic hand from basic materials. I use this project to get the students to think of proper use of some tools, develop problem solving skills and prepare for their next build of a hydraulic arm.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Learning Task
The Physics Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)Physics Classroom is intended for beginning physics/physical science students of all ages and their teachers. It offers a tutorial, interactives, concept builders, Shockwave studios, multimedia studios, and much more. This free web-site contains lessons, interactives, simulations, photo galleries, laboratory exercises, and the option to purchase additional assessment materials/ and for educators.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Curriculum Map, Diagram/Illustration, Full Course, Interactive, Simulation