In this lesson plan students will research environmental problems facing the oceans of the world and will think about how the art of photography can help solve these problems, using the photography by David Doubilet as an example. Students will list human activities in the ocean and the animal species that are threatened by these activities; research and answer questions about specific environmental ... Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades 6-8. It focuses on volcanoes and the destruction that results from eruptions. Students are given a scenario of massive volcanic destruction and have to come up with a plan to help those affected by the events. Included are objectives, materials, procedures, discussion questions, evaluation ideas, suggested readings, ... Full description.

Behavior and Environment is a lesson plan on how organisms adapt to their environment. Student objectives are to understand that behavior is the pattern of activities an organism develops in response to its environment and that innate and learned behavior differ. The lesson plan provides objectives, skills, time required, content outline, materials, significant terms, activities, questions for the ... Full description.

This lesson plan is part of the DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan library for grades K-5. It focuses on the diets of astronauts during space missions. Students bring in dehydrated foods to see how they are different from other foods, and discuss why it is necessary to have dehydrated food in space. Included are objectives, materials, procedures, discussion questions, evaluation ideas, suggested readings, ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches young students about the composition of our Solar System. It discusses planet names and characteristics, and other objects that make up the Solar System. 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 ... Full description.

This lesson plan offers students an opportunity to use economic and social indicators to identify the connection between access to resources and the economic development of a country. Students will learn to interpret basic statistical figures and discuss the relationship between the standard of living of a country and its access to resources. Full description.

In this activity, students will explore circulation cells in the vicinity of seamounts. They will be able to interpret data from a three-dimensional array of current monitors to infer an overall pattern of water circulation, hypothesize what effect an observed water circulation pattern might have on seamount fauna that reproduce by means of floating larvae, and describe the importance of measurements ... Full description.

In this lesson students compare the DNA sequence data for a portion of the rat GULO gene to the corresponding sequence in the inactive GULO gene (pseudogene) in humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and crab-eating macaques by identifying the shared sequences in their alignment. They compare the pseudogene sequences and note a shared deletion. In addition, students do an alignment for the first 25 codons ... Full description.

This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches students about alternative forms of energy while they design models to show how these energy sources can be used. 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 ... Full description.

In this lesson, students will explore the idea of fractals, and will make inferences about the importance of physical complexity to a seamount biological community. They will recognize that natural structures and systems often display recurrent complexity over many scales of measurement, infer the importance of structural complexity to species diversity and abundance in benthic habitats, and discuss ... Full description.