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- CareerStart lessons: Grade eight
- This collection of lessons aligns the eighth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- How does your flower grow?
- Students will develop science process skills by observing plants in various conditions and recording their observation over a period of time
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Bobbie Toler.
- Does it float? Exploring density
- Density is a property of matter that requires abstract understanding from your students. This lesson plan is a hands-on lab for exploring the concepts of mass, volume, density, and their relationship. This lab achieves several 8th grade science objectives and incorporates mathematical objectives as well. The lab can easily be used as an introductory lab for the year, thus covering not only the content objectives, but also procedures for completing labs throughout the course of the year.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Trish Loudermilt.
- Demonstration
- This education reference article explains the demonstration method of teaching.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Inside a baby seed
- Students will identify the three main parts of a seed after the bean/seeds have been soaked in water overnight.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Thelma Pike.
- Convection currents
- Students work together to show convection currents in the air. They construct a paper propeller that will be caused to spin as a result of the transfer of heat energy through the air.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Jillian Dube.
- Physical and chemical changes
- This is a PowerPoint presentation to help students distinguish between physical and chemical changes. It includes teacher demonstrations to check the students' understanding.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Louise Whealton.
- Amazing liquid conductor
- Students will mix a variety of liquid solutions together to see if they will light a light bulb in a electrical circuit. They will be able to identify liquid electrical conductors and nonconductors. Also they will be able to identify that liquid solutions that contain a noticeable amount of acid or salt are good conductors of electricity. Each group of students will make a closed circuit to test their solutions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Martha Martin.
- Blast off the wet way
- This lesson takes 6–10 days and includes math classes in which students will serve as observers and will calculate the height that the rocket reached and time elapsed. In the science class the students will design, build, launch, and do a detailed analysis of the acceleration, speed, and force produced by water-filled two-liter rockets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Jack Curtis.
- Working with available space
- Despite a space with limited possibilities, Becky Smith has organized a high school biology classroom where she can work and her students can learn. A classroom profile.
- By Sydney Brown.
- What is static charge?
- This lab exercise uses ordinary household materials to explore static charge.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Leigh Kiser.
- YMCA Camp Cheerio
- Outdoor Adventure Educational experiences are available for students in elementary, middle, and high school at this camp located near the town of Sparta in the North Carolina mountains.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Decomposition
- Students will observe decomposition in a pile of grass clippings and in a compost heap over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Monica Dubbs.
- Weathering the water cycle: Condensation
- This lesson introduces students to condensation as one phase of the water cycle. Through the use of the four lessons in this series in which students will learn that the water cycle is a continuous cycle.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Cathie Hill, Jackie Parker, and Karen Neilson.
- Making connections between concepts
- In The First Year, page 2.3
- To help students connect what they're learning, make your expectations clear and ask them what they understand and what isn't working.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Woodworms: A study of natural selection
- A study of natural selection and the evolutionary process through the use of a fictitious species, toothus pickii.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By B. Carl Rush.
- Rocks really rock! A lesson on the classification of rocks
- This lesson will help students classify various rocks according to specified criteria. It will also help students classify a given rock using selected mineral identification tests. Students will use a graphic organizer to display their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Grace Smith.
- Modify a seed
- This activity is set up so that students will try to modify their model seed, so that it conforms to an assigned seed dispersal strategy.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Bert Wartski.
- Transpiration lab
- In this activity, your students will observe the process of transpiration. They will determine the rate of transpiration for one plant branch.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Sadie Buie, James Caldwell, Jeanette Fredericks, Janice Shue, Katie Wadsworth, and Tracy Watson.
- Pollution plume
- The students will simulate a plume to illustrate point source and non-point source pollution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Jennifer Smith.
