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Science Lesson Plans

Ice Cream In a Bag Grade: 8 – 9
Magic Mirror Box Grade: 4 – 12
Buoyancy Grade: 3
How To Create A Rain Stick Grade: 2 – 6
“Backpack Science “”Sink Or Float””” – not available yet Grade: 2
Bubble-Ology – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 3
Bubbles – not available yet Grade: 1 – 3
Color Mixing – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 3
Color My World – not available yet Grade: 2
Fact or Theory – not available yet Grade: 8 – 12
It’s a Touchy Subject – not available yet Grade: 4
Making Plywood – not available yet Grade: kindergarten
Mysterious Bubbles – not available yet Grade: 1 – 2
One Color or Two? – not available yet Grade: 2
Oobleck: Liquids and Solids – not available yet Grade: kindergarten
Seeing Sound and Sonar – not available yet Grade: 7 – 8
Shake, Swirl, and Roll – not available yet Grade: 2
Surface Tension – Water Sticking Together – not available yet Grade: 4 – 7

Agriculture

How Are Seeds the Same and Different? Grade: kindergarten – 1
Agriculture and the Environment – not available yet Grade: 9 – 10
Cotton and Hot Peppers: Two of Louisiana’s Greatest Commodities – not available yet Grade: 3 – 5
Day on the Farm – not available yet Grade: 1
Economic Botany: Plants – Where in the World? – not available yet Grade: 7
From Seed to Plant – not available yet Grade: 1 – 3
Fruits and Vegetables – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Importance of Trees in the Rural Area – not available yet Grade: 5 – 12
Let’s Milk a Cow! – not available yet Grade: Preschool education
Lettuce Be Different – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 5
Plants and Seeds – not available yet Grade: 1 – 3
Pumpkin Observations – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3

Anatomy

Blood Circulation Lab Grade: 9 – 12
Heart Rate and Exercise Grade: 4
Beating Heart – not available yet Grade: 2
Bone Transformations – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Circulatory System – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Exercise and Heart Rate – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Exploring the Human Nervous System – not available yet Grade: 10 – 12
How to Take a Pulse! – not available yet Grade: 5 – 6
Human Body – not available yet Grade: 1 – 5
Introduction to the Nervous System – not available yet Grade: 8 – 12
Joints of the Skeleton System – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Learning the Skeletal System Using Body Tracings – not available yet Grade: 2 – 5
Putting Together Body Parts and Naming the Organs – not available yet Grade: 5 – 6
Q-Tip Skeleton – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 1
Racin’ Heart – not available yet Grade: 5 – 6
Those Powerful Hormones – not available yet Grade: 10
Using Imagery To Introduce The Endocrine System – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Virtual Frog Dissection – not available yet Grade: 7

Animals

Animal Life Cycles Grade: 3 – 8
Animal Round Game Grade: 5
Animal Categorization Grade: kindergarten – 3
Endangered Species- Can We Help Them Survive? Grade: 4 – 6
Mapping Animal Behavior Grade: 4 – 6
Ocean Animals Grade: kindergarten – 2
Owl Pellets Grade: 4 – 12
Simulated Wolf Population Studies Grade: 4 – 6
Something Fishy Grade: 6 – 9
Endangered Species: There Is Still Time Grade: 4
Metamorphosis of Frogs Grade: 3 – 4
Owl Pellet Analysis Grade: 1 – 2
Marsupials Grade: 2 – 3
Something Fishy: Life Cycle of a Salmon Grade: 3 – 5
Survival of the Mutant Toad Grade: 2 – 6
Characteristics of Mammals Grade: 2
All About Fish – not available yet Grade: 1
Animal Adaptations (Komodo Dragon) – not available yet Grade: 2 – 4
Animal Adaptations: Focus on Bird Beaks – not available yet Grade: 6
Animal Camouflage – not available yet Grade: 3 – 6
Animal Reproduction – not available yet Grade: 3 – 5
Animal Survival – not available yet Grade: 2 – 4
Animals – not available yet Grade: 1
Animals in Winter – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3
Animals of the Poles – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Bird Study – not available yet Grade: 3 – 6
Bird Watching – not available yet Grade: 7
Camels – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3
Chameleons – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Convening, Creating, and Conventioneering – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 5
Do Animals Play Hide and Seek? – not available yet Grade: kindergarten
Eat and Run – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 2
Endangered Species and Multimedia – not available yet Grade: 2 – 6
Future is Wild – not available yet Grade: 10
Homing Instincts of Salmon – not available yet Grade: 4 – 8
Introduction to the American Plains Bison – not available yet Grade: 6
Mammals and Birds – not available yet Grade: 3
Salmon Homing Instincts – not available yet Grade: 3 – 9
Taking Apart Owl Pellets – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Using Expository Text to Learn About Bears – not available yet Grade: 2 – 5
Whale Echolocation – not available yet Grade: 2 – 4

Astronomy

Glowing Glimpses of our Universe Grade: 4 – 6
Online Discovery – Astronomy Week One Basic Astronomical Vocabulary Grade: 4 – 6
Online Discovery – Astronomy Week Six Unit Wrap-Up Grade: 4 – 6
Astronomy – not available yet Grade: 5 – 6
Astronomy Jeopardy Review – not available yet Grade: 3 – 6
Bringing the Solar System to Life – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3
Constellations – not available yet Grade: 3 – 6
Introduction to Constellations – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Magic School Bus Lost In Space – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3
Mapping Constellations – not available yet Grade: 4 – 8
Mystery Constellation – not available yet Grade: 2 – 4
Online Discovery – Astronomy – Introduction – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Online Discovery – Astronomy – Week 2 – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Online Discovery – Astronomy – Week 3 – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Online Discovery – Astronomy – Week 4 – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Online Discovery – Astronomy – Week 5 – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Phases of the Moon – not available yet Grade: 3
Stars and Constellations – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3

Biology

Bacteria Grade: 6 – 8
Enzymes Grade: 10
LIFELINE: Bioethics and Humans Grade: 11,12
Making Three Dimensional Plant and Animal Cells Grade: 6 – 10
Phases of Mitosis Grade: 6 – 9
Living versus Non-Living Grade: 1 – 2
Variety of Life on Earth Grade: 3 – 6
Fungi: Habitats, Uses, and Nutrition Grade: 3
Fungi Grade: 10 – 11
Bioterrorism Grade: 9 – 12
Being Alive! – not available yet Grade: 1 – 2
Cell-City Project – not available yet Grade: 5 – 9
Jello Cells – not available yet Grade: 6 – 9
Jeopardy PowerPoint: Photosynthesis / Cell Respiration / Enzymes / Light – not available yet Grade: 8 – 11
Limpet Identification Lab – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Living Or Non-living – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 1
Protozoans – not available yet Grade: 6 – 8
Trading Places – not available yet Grade: 5
Viruses – not available yet Grade: 9 – 10

Chemistry

Bouncing Eggs In Science Grade: Kindergarten – 8
Measuring Calories Grade: 5 – 8
Tasty Solution Grade: 7 – 9
Baggie Science – not available yet Grade: 3 – 5
Charles’ Law – not available yet Grade: 10 – 12
Chemical Changes – not available yet Grade: 6 – 8
Crystals – not available yet Grade: 4
Determining Acids and Bases – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Diffusion of Molecules – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
MTV no PTV – not available yet Grade: 11 – 12
Mixtures – not available yet Grade: 3 – 5
Mystery Powders – not available yet Grade: 5
Needle through a Balloon – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Role of Acids and Bases in the Body – not available yet Grade: Higher education
Teaching the Periodic Table with Database Software – not available yet Grade: 6 – 7
Visual Models of Solutions and Concentrations – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
pH – not available yet Grade: 6 – 8

Earth Science

Creating Sand Dunes Grade: 4 – 9
Salt Water Painting Grade: 3
Magnetic Fields and Bermuda Triangles Grade: 8 – 12
Visual Model of the Planet Earth Grade: 3 – 9
Water Magic Grade: kindergarten – 4
Making a Compass! Grade: 4 – 5
Water Grade: 2 – 4
Earth’s Interior and Plate Tectonics Theory Grade: 5 – 6
Flooding and Other Disasters – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Land or Water? – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Transpiration – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8

Ecology

The Woods and Pond Grade: 1,2
Bottle Habitat Grade: 4 – 8
Wetlands/Migration Grade: 2 – 6
Food Chain/Food Web Grade: 3 – 4
Wildlife Management Grade: 3 – 12
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest Grade: 4,5
Terrarium For Life Grade: 2 – 3
Ecosystems Grade: 6
BIOME: Deserts Grade: 7 – 12, Adult/Continuing education
BIOME: Mountains Grade: 7 – 12, Adult/Continuing education
BIOME: Wetlands Grade: 7 – 12, Adult/Continuing education
BIOME: Rainforests Grade: 7 – 12, Adult/Continuing education
Mix and Match Habitats Grade: kindergarten – 2
Discovery of the Earth’s Biomes Grade: 4 – 6
Biomes: Characteristics, Plants, and Animal Life – not available yet Grade: 4
Desert Adaptations – Water – not available yet Grade: 4 – 12
Food Web – not available yet Grade: 6
Forest in a Jar – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 6
Habitat Made by ME! – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Living Things in Their Environment – not available yet Grade: 8 – 11
Oh Deer! – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
School Yard Park/Ecosystem – not available yet Grade: 5
Strands Walk: An Ecological Observation – not available yet Grade: 5 – 7
What Is ECOgraphy? – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
What’s It Like Where You Live? – not available yet Grade: 7

Engineering

Polystyrene Containers Grade: 3 – 12
Slippery Substances – Lubricants Grade: 3 – 4

Entomology

Creativity and Butterflies Grade: 2 – 5
Buggy Diner Grade: 3 – 5
Caterpillars to Butterflies Grade: kindergarten
The Great Bug Hunt Grade: 4 – 12
The Birth of a Butterfly Grade: 1,2
Butterfly Life Cycle Grade: kindergarten – 1, Preschool education
Parts of a Spider Grade: kindergarten, Preschool education
Bugs Aren’t All Bad – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Classifying Insects Via the Internet – not available yet Grade: 7 – 9
Following the Mealworm’s Metamorphosis – not available yet Grade: 1 – 4
Harmful Effects of Insects in Our Lives – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
How a Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 1
Spiders – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4

Environmental Education

Recycling Paper Grade: 3 – 8
Don’t Use it All Up! Grade: 3 – 6
Issues in Environmental Education Grade: 11 – 12
Addressing Harmful Environmental Behaviors – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
Air Pollution – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
All I Want for Christmas Is a Nice, Clean Earth – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Beauty of Nature – A Sensory Experience – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 3
Can You Dig It? – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 6
Cleaning Up for Earth Day – not available yet Grade: All
Creating Built Environments – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Creating a Cooperative Living Habitat – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Deforestation – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Designing an Ecologically Sound City – not available yet Grade: 5
Environmental Determinisim – not available yet Grade: 10 – 12
Environmental Fair – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 6
Everybody Needs a Clean Environment – not available yet Grade: 4 – 8
Finite Resources: Once Gone – Gone Forever! – not available yet Grade: 6 – 12
Focusing on Environmental Rift: Causes and Effects – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Forests and Lumbering Around the World – not available yet Grade: 7 – 8
Guidebook – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
I’m Warm Now – not available yet Grade: 3
Identifying Biodegradable Materials – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
Integrated Unit on Nevada Solid Waste Disposal – not available yet Grade: 6
Landscape Modifications: Designing Man’s Vision of a Global Environment – not available yet Grade: 10 – 12
Learning About Biodiversity – not available yet Grade: 6 – 12
Learning About Interlocking Dependency – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Nurturing an Environmental Ethic – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 12
Oil Pollution – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3
One Person’s Garbage, Another Person’s…? – not available yet Grade: 5
Our Environment – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3
Outdoor Education – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Planet Earth – not available yet Grade: 2 – 6
Rain Forest Erosion – not available yet Grade: 3
Recycled Paper – not available yet Grade: 2 – 6
Recycling – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Renewable Natural Resources – Resources for the Future – not available yet Grade: 6 – 12
Saving Animal and Plant Environments – not available yet Grade: 7 – 8
Succession And Soil Compaction – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 6
To Diaper or Not To – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Urban Environmental Education – ECOnauts in the City – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Using the Internet to Study Polymers – not available yet Grade: 4
Water Pollution – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 6
Water Quality For Freshwater Organisms – not available yet Grade: 8 – 12

Genetics

Taster or Non-Taster? Grade: 4 – 12
Protein Synthesis Grade: 9 – 10
Design a Chromosome – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Fundamentals of Genetics – not available yet Grade: 9 – 10
How Cells Duplicate and Why Where Something Can Go Wrong – not available yet Grade: 7
Introduction to Genetics – not available yet Grade: 9 – 10

Geology

The Changing Earth Grade: 3, 4
Earth Changes Grade: 4 – 6
Introduction to Geology: The Layers of the Earth Grade: 2 – 6
Why Is The Sea Salty? Grade: Kindergarten – 3
Characteristics of Rocks and Minerals Grade: 2
The Layers of the Earth Grade: 2, 3
Waterbasins and Watersheds Grade: 8 – 12
Volcanoes Grade: 3 – 4
Shake the Rocks Grade: 9
Mineral Identification Lab Grade: 6 – 12
Topographic Maps and Mountains Grade: 5 – 6
Sorting Rocks Grade: 1 – 2
Modeling the Layers of the Earth Grade: 4 – 6
Rock Cycle Fudge Grade: 5 – 8
Core – not available yet Grade: 8
Creating the Layers of the Earth Using Jell-O! – not available yet Grade: 4
Earthquakes WebQuest – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Erosion – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 4
Glitter of Gold – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
Karst Topography – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Macho Mountain Building – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Metamorphic Rock Pancakes – not available yet Grade: 2 – 8
Mountain Building – not available yet Grade: 4 – 8
Rock Classification – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Types of Volcanoes – not available yet Grade: 9 – 10
Volcanoes WebQuest – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8

Paleontology

Dinosaurs! Grade: kindergarten – 2
Excavating Your Recycling Bin as a Fossil Record Grade: 6 – 12
Fossils Grade: 1 – 2
Dinosaur Babies, Fossils, and Make Your Own Dinosaur Grade: 1 – 6
Fossils with Play-Doh Grade: 3 – 5
Dinosaur Dig – not available yet Grade: 3 – 12
Oklahoma Dinosaur – not available yet Grade: 3 – 5

Physical Sciences

Crystal Growing Grade: 1 – 12
Air and Its Characteristics – not available yet Grade: 4 – 7
Air…What Gives? – not available yet Grade: 3 – 12
Density – not available yet Grade: 5 – 6
Disappearing Water – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 1
Discovering the Properties of Oobleck – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
Does Air Have Mass and Density? – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Drinking Bird – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Evaporation Happens – not available yet Grade: 3 – 5
Fun with Density – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Glober – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Hot Rot – not available yet Grade: 3 – 9
Let’s Settle It! – not available yet Grade: 3 – 5
Magnetic Forces – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Matter and Heat – not available yet Grade: 1 – 3
Measuring Volume with Water – not available yet Grade: 6 – 8
Molecules and Temperature – not available yet Grade: 1 – 3
More on Density – not available yet Grade: 6
Motion of Molecules in Water – not available yet Grade: 4 – 7
Non-Compressibility of Water – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Properties of Matter – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
Rainbow Straws – not available yet Grade: 2 – 4
Simple Machines – not available yet Grade: 4 – 8
Solar Hot Box – not available yet Grade: 5 – 6
States of Matter: Particles – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Structure of Matter – not available yet Grade: 5
Types of Simple Machines – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
What Crushed the Can? – not available yet Grade: 4
What Will Keep Ice Cold? – not available yet Grade: 2 – 4

Physics

Mickey’s Magnets Grade: kindergarten – 3
Brown Bag Science Grade: 1 – 5
Bubble-ology and Bernoulli Grade: 4 – 9
Potential & Kinetic Energy Grade: 5, 6
Sounds Like Fun Grade: 3 – 4
Learning About Magnets Grade: 2 – 3
The Notion of Motion Grade: 7 – 10, Vocational Education
Primary Colors: Additive and Subtractive Grade: 3 – 4
Alarm Circuit Grade: 5 – 12
Attracting Balloons – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Cloud Chambers and Kinetic Energy – not available yet Grade: 8 – 9
Colors of the Sky – not available yet Grade: 6
Current Electricity – AC/DC – not available yet Grade: 5 – 6
Downhill Discoveries – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Electromagnets – not available yet Grade: 6
Exploring the Path of Light – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
I’m Inclined to See (Exploration) – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Introduction to Electricity – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 2
Laws of Reflection – not available yet Grade: 7 – 9
Learning About Static Electricity – not available yet Grade: 6
Light and Color – not available yet Grade: 8
Looking into Lenses – not available yet Grade: 4
Magnets – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3
Making an Electrical Circuit – not available yet Grade: 4
Mirror Activity – not available yet Grade: 7
One, Two, Three, Isaac Newton and Me – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Optical Images – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Rainbows and Prisms – not available yet Grade: 2
Ringer – not available yet Grade: 3 – 12
Rocket to Success – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Roller Coasters in the Classroom – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Simple Harmonic Motion – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Spool Racer – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
Static Electricity – not available yet Grade: 4
Understanding Sound – not available yet Grade: 4 – 5
Understanding the Primary Colors and Their Misconceptions! – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Using Newton’s Laws of Motion: Bottle Rocket Experiments – not available yet Grade: 6 – 8
Visible Light – not available yet Grade: 6
What Makes a Parachute Float Slowly Down? – not available yet Grade: 2 – 3
What is Gravity? – not available yet Grade: 11 – 12

Process Skills

Creative Activities for the Sciences Grade: All
Dichotomous Key Grade: kindergarten – 8
Paper Airplane Science Grade: 2 – 6
Mummification Grade: 6 – 8
Temperature: Is it Hot or Cold? Grade: 2
Potato Chip Classification Grade: 5 – 8
Balloon Fun – not available yet Grade: All
Classification – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Comparing Peanuts – not available yet Grade: 2
Computing With Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwiches – not available yet Grade: 8 – 12
Donut Sort – not available yet Grade: 3 – 6
Dying Eggs with Onions – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 4
Learning Science Skills Through Use of Productivity Tools – not available yet Grade: 2
Looking at Variables – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6
Make Your Own Paper – not available yet Grade: kindergarten – 6
Making a Pinhole Camera – not available yet Grade: 2 – 4
Making a Pinhole Coffee Can Camera – not available yet Grade: 6 – 12
Measuring Temperature – not available yet Grade: 3
Mole as a Large Number – An Exercise in Dimensional Analysis – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Movement – not available yet Grade: 3 – 4
Parts of a Microscope – not available yet Grade: 6 – 7
Science Role Plays – not available yet Grade: 5 – 8
Science Show – not available yet Grade: 9 – 12
Sensational Slime – not available yet Grade: 1 – 4
Thermometers: What is the Temperature? – not available yet Grade: 2
Touch n Feel Box – not available yet Grade: 2 – 4
Using Microscopes – not available yet Grade: 3 – 6
What’s an Ecotect? – not available yet Grade: 4 – 12
Where is my Peanut? – not available yet Grade: 2 – 8

Space Sciences

Flight Paths of Orbiting Satellites Grade: 4 – 9
Measuring the Diameter of the Sun Grade: 9 – 12
Once in a Blue Moon Grade: 1 – 2
Our Solar System Grade: 6
Solar System Bowl Grade: 3 – 5
Solar System Stories Grade: 3 – 6
The Moon Phase Trek Grade: 6
Probes, Exploration & Application Grade: 8 – 12
Understanding the Planets Grade: 3 – 4
Crashed on the Moon – not available yet Grade: 7 – 12
Earth, Sun, Moon and Stars Unit (Planets Too!) – not available yet Grade: 5
Interplanetary Distance and Time Travel – not available yet Grade: 5 – 9
Planets of Our Solar System – not available yet Grade: 3
Solar Energy Experiment – not available yet Grade: 3 – 8
Solar System – not available yet Grade: 4 – 6