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The Effect of Acid Rain on Seed Growth
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This activity is an in class lab where students will compare different acid solutions on seed germination and growth.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Inertia
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Force & MotionThis activity is an inquiry investigation where students manipulate a variety of objects in a variety of situations to develop a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Ecosystems: Determining Feeding Relationships among Organisms
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a field investigation in which students identify organisms and their energy sources. Students collect data and ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Scientific Observations: A Schoolyard BioBlitz
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, PhysicsThis activity is a classroom and field activity where students learn about and practice scientific observations in the classroom...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Natural Selection: Observing Stabilizing and Directional Selection through Graphical Analysis of Population Samples.
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Evolution and AdaptationThis lab activity demonstrates the difference between stabilizing and directional natural selection using two separate populatio...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Food Web and Chains Activity using Differentiated Tiering by Level of Challenge and Complexity
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural ResourcesBy using this tiered assignment students at different levels are able to review characteristics of living things by either creat...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Schoolyard BioBlitz: Monthly Observations of Plants, Insects, Weather, the Sun and Moon
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space Science and 4 additional..In this field lab students will go outside and observe a particular area of the schoolyard. Students will design investigations ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Hot Wheelin' with Speed, Acceleration, and Data Graphs
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a lab investigation where students observe, record, and gather data on the speed, acceleration, constant speed,...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigate Effects of an Oil Spill
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Current Science, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesThis activity is a classroom chemistry lab where students will test different cleaning methods that could be used in oil spills....Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0The First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity will provide the students with an opportunity to use inquiry. This activity will also help them to begin to unders...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Membranes and Cell Structure
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Instructional StrategiesA one page assignment that uses online tutorials to give students a first exposure to the components of a cell and membrane.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Why is Chlorophyll Green?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Instructional StrategiesThis is an out of class exercise that allows students to explore biological molecules that contain heme like molecules with meta...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Obesity Epidemic
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Instructional StrategiesA one page activity that takes students to several websites related to the obesity epidemic. First they can calculate BMI, then ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Ecology/Geography Classification
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural ResourcesThis short lesson was designed in collaboration with a 7th grade Life Science teacher (Paul Jeffery). The idea behind the lesson...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0The physics and engineering of a trebuchet
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsThis activity is a hands on investigation in which students will construct, and launch a trebuchet.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Rock Cycle Skit
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Inquiry & Problem Based LearningThis activity is a skit, commercial or song/rap about the rock cycleContributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Monitoring pollution in a freshwater environment
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Science, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, PhysicsThis inquiry lab is useful for monitoring water pollution in a freshwater system using direct and/or indirect methods.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0What sizes are the planets and how do they move around the sun?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Our Solar SystemThis is an activity to help students understand the abstract concept about how planets move around the sun and their relative si...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Why Does It Go So Fast? Investigating what makes rockets go up in space
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is an inquiry based activity where students investigate how the force that causes rockets to go into space is simi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Modeling Valence Electrons
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Physics, Atomic StructureThis activity is a guided practice and scaffolding activity in which the students learn how to configure electrons of elements a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0