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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| A Microscopically Enormous Look at Genetic Inheritance |
9 to 12 |
 (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) A lab to help better understand how traits are controlled by genes using drosophila fruit flies. |
| Act!Ivating Students Through Storytelling |
4 to 4 |
(5.0 stars, 3 ratings) Activating students through storytelling is a fun, engaging, interactive learning process designed for 4th grade students at Northside Elementary School. The focus of the program is to stimulate imagination, emphasize critical thinking, and build cultural awareness using folktales from all over the world.
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| Career Creation |
5 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will do career investigations based upon personal interests, skills assessments, counselor recommendations, dreams, parental guidance, etc. and develop a "Build Your Own Destiny" Google Form. Included in the Form will be pictures, videos, and links. |
| Climate Change in Context |
8 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students predict and review the effects of climate change by reviewing text and writing hypotheses. Groups then present the information to the class in a jigsaw/spider web format. |
| Creating Videos for Teachers |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students created videos for teachers based on an interview with the teacher. The video included specific skills that the teacher requested. |
| Defining the Difference Between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells--An alternative to direct instruction. |
7 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) This inquiry based lesson plan helps students define the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells using microscopes (one equiped with a camera), a smart board and a powerpoint/pictures of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells (slides). |
| Digital Nature Journaling |
P-K to K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Use digital camera and microscope to create a digital nature journal. Students will investigate different natural living/non-living items on school grounds. |
| Ecosystem Study |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) An indepth inquiry based study of an ecosystem and how humans impact over time. |
| Enhancing Our Outdoor Classroom Studies through Technology |
K to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will make and collect scientific observations in our outdoor classroom. In addition to traditional observations, video recordings and digital photographic records will be collected as well. |
| Farm Animals |
P-K to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Rodeo - Farm Animals
Elementary Zone Grant |
| Flippin for Valley View Scavenger Hunt |
K to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a lesson for including an outdoor nature preserve onsite at our school and using it to teach state standards while incorporating technology into a classroom where nature can't come inside. |
| Fractals in Nature |
P-K to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be introduced to the concept of fractals and look at examples of fractals, find fractals in nature, and create fractal cut outs. |
| Geography Postcard Podcasting |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will produce four postcards that will show the major landforms and describe the climate of the different regions of the U.S. and Canada. Students will then write a description of their travels in the form of a friendly letter. Each student will create a podcast using the postcards and letter. The podcast will be posted to the class website. |
| Growing STEM Minds Through the Growing Gardens |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) The nexus of our STEM activities revolves around our urban gardening center surrounding the school. The STEM activities will reach across all the subject areas including English, History, Science, Engineering, Technology and Math classes at our school. |
| Heads or Tails? Studying Regeneration in Planaria |
10 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will brainstorm stem cells, help create a concept map, and view a video lecture or clip prior to performing an experiment (found at HHMI's Biointeractive site) in which they investigate regeneration in Planaria. They will relate this flatworm's ability to regenerate to stem cell study. |
| imovie-ski trip |
4 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Work in small groups and use imovie to create a movie of our class trip. |
| Invasion of the Germs: We Fight Back! |
3 to 4 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) The news today can be scary for our children hearing the stories of the H1N1 virus. This unit will teach common, quality health practices to serve our community and remove fear and uncertainty out of this disease. Personal hygiene, scientific investigation and fun will mesh in this unit for 4th grade students entitled “Invasion of the Germ: We fight back”. The students will investigate hygiene and determine what habits will help their bodies fight infections. They will create clay animation videos with podcasts to teach younger students and our community how to fight germs and the H1N1 virus. |
| Keeping an Inventory of Greenhouse Plants |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Stores keep inventories to know what they have and use this to work with customers as well as know when to reorder. It is important to keep a good inventory of what you have in your greenhouse as well. |
| Lifecycle Learning |
K to 3 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Classroom children can watch lifecycles by having a camera set on an egg or a seed planted and projected on a large screen. In return, they learn the sequence of each lifecycle by seeing it first hand. |
| Living Creatures Up Close |
2 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will discover a pond habitat, capture a specimin and observe under a microscope. |
| Living Organisms Digital Scavenger Hunt |
1 to 5 |
| We conducted a digital scavenger hunt with digital cameras at a nearby pond to document various living things for our science unit. |
| Local Cemeteries Prove to be Learning Grounds |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Mr. Osborne a Science Teacher at Observation and Assessment (O & A) has put together a cross curricular activity that involves a field trip to two of Salt Lake City’s local cemeteries. |
| Locating Lost Ladybugs. |
1 to 4 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will observe and then photograph ladybugs that they encounter on school grounds and outside homes. Pictures and data collected will be emailed to the Lost Ladybug Project which is a national based program coordinated through Cornell University Department of Entomology. |
| Mitosis |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Using document camera, students will model to mitosis |
| Moon Craters Lab |
3 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) By dropping a rock from three different heights, students were able to employ al the steps of the scientific method while conducting an investigation. They explored the limitations of models and connected the relationship of mass, height, and impact. |
