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Introduction to Electricity by creating a light up quiz board
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional StrategiesThis activity is a guided demonstration where students create light up quiz boards to demonstrate electricity vocabulary.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Scientific Observations: A Schoolyard BioBlitz
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Physics, Life SciencesThis 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: 0Snails: Population Calculation in an Aquatic Environment
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space ScienceIn this field investigation, students will identify and determine the population size of snails in an aquatic environment.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Macroinvertebrates: How Clean is Our Lake?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Physics, Earth & Space Science, ScienceThis 3-part lesson begins with a field activity beside a lake or stream where students collect and identify macro invertebrates....Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Building Big Educator's Guide Mini-Activity Human Arch, Forces
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, PhysicsThis classroom activity where students physically show where the forces are in an arch.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Goldenrod Gall Flies: Writing a Lab Report in the Form of a Scientific Paper
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesStudents collect protein electrophoresis data comparing goldenrod gall flies, analyze class data, and write a lab report in the ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Light & Sound, Light Reflection Relay
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Light, Sound & Other Waves, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, PhysicsThis activity is an experiment where students learn about angles of reflection and use that knowledge to reflect a light beam ar...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Monitoring pollution in a freshwater environment
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Physics, Earth & Space Science, ScienceThis 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: 0Our Big Backyard: How does our local ecosystem change during the year?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space ScienceThis activity is a field investigation where students will make observations on a chosen location every two weeks for the period...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Projectile Motion: Creating a Catapult
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Force & Motion, Professional Development, Instructional StrategiesThis activity is a project where students build a catapult and analyze the energy transformations, role of Newton's Laws, and ro...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Exploring States of Matter - Gases
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentA lesson on states of matter using marbles for molecules expands into 3 more lessons elaborating on properties of a gas.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Minnehaha Falls: Observing Changes in Nature through Drawing and Writing
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life SciencesThe activity is a field trip to Minnehaha Falls where students will observe and record their findings in a science notebook.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: 0Coke vs. Pepsi Taste Test: Experiments and Inference about Cause
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThe Coke vs. Pepsi Taste Test Challenge has students design and carry out an experiment to determine whether or not students are...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Modeling Valence Electrons
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Atomic Structure, Professional Development, PhysicsThis 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: 0Macroinvertebrates and Indicators of Water Quality
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Physics, Earth & Space Science, ScienceThis activity is a field investigation where students can go to a body of water and collect the macroinvertebrates there and ide...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Sharpie Marker Tie-Die T-Shirts
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentThis chemistry lesson uses Sharpie Markers, rubbing alcohol and t-shirts to make a exciting tie-die looking t-shirtContributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Schoolyard BioBlitz: Monthly Observations of Plants, Insects, Weather, the Sun and Moon
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Our Solar System 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: 0Is Air Matter?
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a mini-lab where students determine a procedure they might use to prove that air is matter.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Oil and Water Art Project
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis is an art project where oil paints and water is used. Students will have already explored the densities of oil and water.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0