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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Electricity - how it works and how we measure and pay for it! |
6 to 12 |
| What is electricity, and where can we see it in our daily lives. This lesson is primarily informational, providing an easy-to-understand description of electricity and how it is literally all around us. |
| Electricity for Kids! It's Shocking! |
2 to 3 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Electricity for Kids! It's Shocking! |
| How to Build an Electric Motor |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the POE method to build an electric motor. |
| Static Electricity Intro. |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This is an introductory science lesson on static electricity. By the end of this lesson students will be able to explain what static electricity is and describe static electricity through examples. |
| Watt's Up with the Electricity Bill? |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) How students can learn to conserve energy by becoming informed consumers about energy usage. |
| Beats Speaker Project |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) You are recently hired at a your new job working for BEATS AUDIO. You have been assigned a task to create an efficient home speaker for Beats New Signature Studio Home Series. Your job is to create a speaker that plays directly from an auxiliary cord (headphone cable) without additional power. You have been directed to work with a group of 3 other audio, electrical and chemical engineers to draft designs, calculate cost efficiency and produce a working speaker given various and limited supplies. |
| Tiger EV Technology to Improve Sustainability and Petroleum Dependency |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Tiger EV project involves research, design, and construction of an all-electric vehicle. This three-wheeled vehicle is powered advanced battery and electric motor technology. Electrathon America registered EV cars compete all across the country with the goal of traveling the farthest distance in a given time, with a limited energy source.
Our goals for this project are to: Increase students' and publics' awareness of the future of alternative energy transportation. Advancing the implementation of green technology in educational curriculums across the country using hands-on learning in the fields of electronics, aerodynamics, and materials usage, in a real life application.
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| The Robotics Obstacle Course Challenge |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Robotics Obstacle Course Challenge is a comprehensive instructional unit that exposes middle school students to various engineering domains/colleges, enhances student motivation and engagement, provides authentic avenues for research, and challenges all students to excel in a robotics obstacle course challenge. |
| "50 Ways to Use Your FlipCam" |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson/power point was developed in order to teach the audience (teachers/instructors) simple and quick ways to enhance their teaching and to help invest their student in their education by using a FlipCam. |
| (PART 2) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
| See Part 1 for all following sections with the exception of Lesson Plan Description. |
| (PART 3) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
| See Part 1 for following sections with the exception of Lesson Plan Description. |
| 30 Ways In 30 days |
5 to 6 |
| Learners are challenged with the essential question, "How can I make a significant difference in the world in just 30 days?" To highlight their experience, the learners must keep a log book, create a documentary, and publish an original book. |
| 8th Grade Science End of the Year Flip Video Review |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a video segment that highlights a prior unit of study. They will include specific examples that demonstrate their understanding of the given objectives. Videos will be reviewed and rated by their peers. |
| Alternative Energy |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Integrating technology for hands-on instruction to give students a better understanding of renewable energy, how electricity can be produced, and the relationship between wind speed and voltage. |
| Amusement Park LegoWeDo Engineering Challenge |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) LegoWeDo Challenge K-5. Parents and community can support this event in the school yard. |
| Build Your Awesome Life |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) MS Word & Excel Build Your Awesome Life |
| Can You See What I See? |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) In this lesson, students will take digital pictures to represent various forms of energy and the steps involved in energy transfers and transformations. They will then create a Rebus story that can be solved using these pictures. This activity will bring to life a science concept that is usually difficult to see and understand. |
| Coding in a Different Way! --Secret Code Messages |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to create a rolling robot that flashes the light cube in morse code, so as to communicate a brief message to the students on the other side of the classroom. |
| Creating a budget |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research their future career and future expenses to create a budget using a Chromebook. Students will create their budget plan on google documents. |
| Element Videos |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will work in groups of 2 or 3 to research a specific element of the periodic table and create a short Imovie with the information they have learned. |
| Flipping Out at the Peoples' Choice Ad Awards |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) A marketing lesson plan taking marketing basic concepts and applying them in a culminating project. This is a grouped project requiring the students to use technology creatively to attempt to produce a winning video commercial for a classroom award ceremony. |
| Flipping the Science Classroom: iEnergy |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) What if homework was done in the classroom and the teacher lesson was watched at home? With the help of this grant I plan to flip my classroom as I engage students in creativity and interactive learning. |
| High School Energy Audit |
9 to 12 |
| You will take scientific measurements, question school staff, and obtain various kinds of information related to how your school uses energy. As you finish each investigation, you will write a scientific report with graphs and recommendations and present it to school
officials. |
| Historical Claymation! |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The students will use Tool Factory Movie Maker to make a claymation video of a historical figure. |
| Internal Combustion Engine |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will work in small groups as part of an overall team effort to design an internal combustion engine. They will design, virtually test, and print 3-D parts to assmeble for testing. |
| Let’s Get Excited about Roller Coasters! |
5 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An amusement park has decided to open a theme park to be located in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. It is an exciting time for the citizens of Waikoloa Village. Finally, this small town will be put on the map for something big. The residents are anxiously anticipating the grand opening of the amusement park. However, the operators of the amusement park need your help. They want to design a new roller coaster with a car that runs as smoothly as a marble would down the track. Your team has been hired to design this new roller coaster track for this theme park. Your task is to design a model of the track you would like to build for this amusement park. Your model must demonstrate the law of conservation of energy, gravity, force, momentum, and especially kinetic and potential energy. |
| Let’s Get Excited about Roller Coasters! |
5 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An amusement park has decided to open a theme park to be located in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. It is an exciting time for the citizens of Waikoloa Village. Finally, this small town will be put on the map for something big. The residents are anxiously anticipating the grand opening of the amusement park. However, the operators of the amusement park need your help. They want to design a new roller coaster with a car that runs as smoothly as a marble would down the track. Your team has been hired to design this new roller coaster track for this theme park. Your task is to design a model of the track you would like to build for this amusement park. Your model must demonstrate the law of conservation of energy, gravity, force, momentum, and especially kinetic and potential energy. |
| Making a Battery and Energy Transformations |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the inquiry process to build their own wet cell battery. Focus will be on students understanding that energy can be stored in one form and transformed into other forms. |
| Memories To Treasure Forever! |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To honor the grandparents of our students, we have an annual Grandparent's Day Event. My teacher created activity involved an interview with their grandparent (s). The students were givena list of 30 questions to choose to ask their grandparents and interview them with the flip video cameras. The grandparents could then flip it around and interview them. This was then turned into a keepsake DVD. |
| MOON PHASE |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) What role has NASA played in space exploration?
What role has the Moon played in human history?
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| Mythbusters |
8 to 8 |
| The popular show "Mythbusters" is the ultimate way for students to utilize the scientific method every day to answer questions about science and life. |
| Science Claymation - Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students in 3rd - 6th could use the Tool Factory Movie Maker, Stop Motion Pro Software to make Claymation videos about science topics such as life cycles, natural cycles, phyics, and space phenomena. These lesson plans are integrated cross-curricula and incorporate multiple 21st Century skills. |
| Science Olympics |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Science Olympics will actively involve the chemistry and ELL science students at Reynolds High School with science education in one the district’s elementary schools heavily populated with ELL children. The high school chemistry and ELL students will be taught how to present and involve the grade school kids in a variety of hands-on science activities covering all seven of the Common Curriculum Goals and will be encouraged to think creatively and plan how to get these basic science concepts across to children in grades K-5. By doing so both the high school students and the K-5th graders will experience science as fun, rewarding, interactive, engaging, and memorable.
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| Simulations and Tools for STEM Skills |
6 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Incoming 6th grade students will use STEM Software Bundle for Upper Elementary (4-6) to learn and enhance their STEM and problem solving skills.
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| Student Generated Science Digital Presentations |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create Power Point Presentations of various science concepts to present
at the end of the year in a student led review for the class. |
| Telling Time through Digital Devices and Photo Story Telling in the Classroom |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To engage learners physically, mentally, digitally and help them to develop the following time telling skills through an array of digital devices and human interactions |
| Who Are QR? |
3 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Use your tablet to create a QR "Who Is" activity that allows self checking. |
