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In this lesson, students develop a model for the organization of elements in the periodic table based upon their properties. By organizing various elements with their varying properties, such as state, reactivity and valence, students will understand the correlation between element properties and organization. This lesson is based on the 5E instructional model and allows students to discover and d ...

In this unit, students investigate five essential questions about severe weather: "What is severe weather? How does weather impact people's lives? How can technology be used to collect data about weather conditions? What can weather data tell us about the frequency of severe weather events? How can people modify their homes to reduce the impact of severe weather?" The printable &ldqu ...

In this game, students use their understanding of momentum, Newton’s 2nd and 3rd Law, and forces, to send rubber ducks through obstacles to a food source. BumperDucks is an educational physical science game that will help teach players about what happens when two objects collide and how mass and force impact the acceleration of an object. “Lazy Logs” involves collisions where on ...

The Sesame Street Characters are used to: 1. Create a gene map for a particular Sesame Street character. 2. Move the resulting chromosomes through the steps of meiosis to produce the possible gametes of that individual character. 3. Choose a spouse and diagram the genetic crosses that would produce two different children, by using Punnett Squares. 4. Draw family portraits based on the genotypes of ...

This news story describes a phenomenon that illustrates how traits are randomly passed from generation to generation. A photo in the story shows two young women whose physical traits are so different from one another that most people would say they are not related. The photo shows seemingly unrelated ladies that are not just related, but are twins. The video linked below tells the story of these t ...

The lesson includes a 7 minute video to engage students in the concern that scientists have about how release of invasive Lionfish have created a shift in the oceanic ecosystems of the Caribbean and the Florida Coast. The lesson includes ideas for the teacher to use in order to engage the students in researching other species and arguing from evidence about the impact that an invasive species can ...