My Science Box

Based on the website http//www.bigelow.org/edhab OverviewThis discussion begins with a review of how energy transfers through food webs and then engages students in assembling a food web with a small set ...

Given seven drawings depicting motion, students will be able to correctly identify, describe, and indicate direction and relative magnitude of three to five forces in each. Relationship to big idea Everything physical ...

Given a textbook passage on forces, students will be able to organize the passage's information into a graphic organizer and teach the information to other students. Relationship to big idea Everything physical ...

  Students will use the information they have learned about the evidence scientists use to prove the theory of evolution in a real life look at an authentic question about ...

  The purpose of this lesson is to start a dialog on the importance of adaptations to a species and individuals survival.  In the end students will understand how animals use ...

Based on a “Carbon Adventures” lesson plan developed by  the GK-12 Project at Arizona State University. For details on the original activity, go to (http//gk12.asu.edu/curriculum/life_science/CarbonAdventures/carb_ad.htm). There is excellent background information ...

How does a brain - less than 3 pounds of wrinkly pink matter - enable a person to sense their environment, think, feel, make decisions, remember things, and control every ...

I used this to show my students what happens during menstruation. I have them fill out where the flow is, when ovulation happens, when the lining begins to shed, and ...

In response to a question on ways to teach electron configuration to students, here's a model I used with my 8th graders. We had been using beans to represent and ...

While I was reading The Magic School Bus,they went inside a cloud. Because this is not a field trip, there should be no driving into clouds :). But in Inside a Hurricane, They make a water cycle experiment.

Materials:    Oven mitten,Kettle,Ice,Strainer,Water

Experiment:

1. Put water in kettle.
2. Turn on the stove.
3. As the steam comes up, put ice in strainer.
4. Open top of kettle.

Watch as the water moves around.