This final project uses the 52 Minute Challenge to allow students a chance to pitch a real idea to create a more environmentally friendly school.
A remix of https://goopenva.org/courses/52-minute-challenge.
This final project uses the 52 Minute Challenge to allow students a chance to pitch a real idea to create a more environmentally friendly school.
A remix of https://goopenva.org/courses/52-minute-challenge.
This final project uses the 52 Minute Challenge to allow students a chance to pitch a real idea to create a more environmentally friendly school.
A remix of https://goopenva.org/courses/52-minute-challenge.
Developed for fifth grade and above. Primary biological content area covered:; Plant growth; Seedling morphology; Hypothesis testing; Experimental design; Line graphing; Introductory statistics.Biology In Elementary Schools is a Saint Michael's College student project. The teaching ideas on this page have been found, refined, and developed by students in a college-level course on the teaching of biology at the elementary level. Unless otherwise noted, the lesson plans have been tried at least once by students from our partner schools. This wiki has been established to share ideas about teaching biology in elementary schools. The motivation behind the creation of this page is twofold: 1. to provide an outlet for the teaching ideas of a group of college educators participating in a workshop-style course; 2. to provide a space where anyone else interested in this topic can place their ideas.
This lab activity will not only draw on students' real life experiences but will also draw on student's previous lab experiences in proper laboratory techniques and data analysis performed in previous activities. The lab will incorporate the use of scientific inquiry methods and strategies while students develop reasonable answers to the questions asked.
This is a remix of the Exploratorium Teacher Institute's Agar Cell Diffusion resource. It offers an alternate recipe for the cell blocks using plain gelatin instead of agarose gel.
Link to original resource: https://goopenva.org/courses/agar-cell-diffusion
Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.
These are simple ways to demonstrate water chemistry concepts such as adhesion, cohesion, and polarity to students in a hands on way using easy to find and inexpensive lab materials. The lesson was originally designed to align with a biology course to teach the impact of water on life, but it could also be modified to fit a chemistry or physical science curriculum.
Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom. This lesson includes the WIDA English Language Development Standards for ELs and differentiation through additional supports for both ELs and other students.
This lab safety quiz is in the form of a powerpoint presentation so it can be given to the whole class at once. I use the at the beginning of the very next class after we have gone over the lab safety agreement. There are 5 true/false questions and 5 short answer. Students can use their own lined paper to take the quiz. The first 10 slides contain the questions only. After students have finished the questions, have them trade papers for grading and then the last 10 slides contain the answers so you can grade together as a class.
Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom. This lesson includes the WIDA English Language Development Standards for ELs and differentiation through additional supports for both ELs and other students.
DNA Technologies lesson adds some aspects of computer science and "everyday relevance"/ethics to a unit on DNA technologies followed by a DNA extraction lab. Students create a public opinion survey on DNA modification and use it to collect data (the more the better). Afterwards, they perform data analysis, viusualization and discussion in addition to extracting DNA and talking about its current uses in science and medicine. Students work in groups or as a whole class, depending on the class size.