This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students about the causes of pollution and ways to keep their community clean. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes necessary to raise the activity to a higher cognition ... Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades 6-8. It focuses on the Mesozoic era of Earth's history, when the dinosaurs were alive. Students divide into groups to research one of the three periods of this time, and create a habitat mural for that time period. At the end, comparisons are made between the three time periods to discover how dinosaurs evolved during ... Full description.

This lesson demonstrates that air takes up space, and puts pressure, or pushes, on everything around it. In this activity, students will be conducting investigations that will help them develop and refine their ideas about air. To start the lesson, students will be asked to write an explanation of what air is. At various points in the lesson they will be asked to revisit their explanations and refine ... Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades 9-12. This lesson focuses on weather instruments, and has students build a rain gauge, barometer, wind vane, anemometer, and a psychrometer. It includes objectives, materials, procedures, discussion questions, evaluation ideas, performing extensions, suggested readings, and vocabulary. There are videos available to ... Full description.

In this imaginary fossil hunt, students learn about the uncertainty of science and the fact that, as new evidence is revealed, ideas may change. As they follow a script read by the teacher, students find (remove from envelope) paper fossils of some unknown creature, a few at a time. Each time, they attempt to reconstruct the creature and each time their interpretation tends to change as new pieces ... Full description.

In this lesson, students will investigate the idea of strength in dinosaurs, and decide for themselves which was the strongest. Background materials point out the difficulty in determining the strength of a dinosaur from fossilized remains, and that size may not be a good measure of strength. The students will review the background material and other printed and online resources, then write an essay ... Full description.

In this lesson, students will learn that there are limits to what the eye can see and that a magnifying glass can help extend those limits. Students may have been exposed to optical technology such as glasses, magnifying lenses, or even periscopes, microscopes, and telescopes. This lesson aims to channel the inventive energy of students to increase their awareness and purposeful use of tools. They ... Full description.

This lesson is designed to teach younger students about why the Moon appears different during various times of the month. Students will acquire knowledge of how the phases of the moon occur in planet and satellite rotation, and demonstrate their understanding by writing an explanation of what they did and how and why it happens. Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students about the resources that bodies of water provide. Students learn about the difference between saltwater and freshwater habitats. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, materials, activities, and closure ideas for the lesson. The Classroom Connectors address content with an activity approach while incorporating themes ... Full description.

In this lesson, the first in a set of lessons exploring migration, genetic markers, markers in context, and the Genographic Project (a five-year study of human origins and migration based on genetic markers), students will explore the concept of migration from a historical perspective. As a means of creating a personal connection, students will first explore a modern migration of people with their ... Full description.