This is an inquiry activity that relies of pervious understanding of balancing and weighing to introduce a properties of air.
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Students compare and contrast birds' bills and compare them to household items.
- Author:
- Vick, Sharon
- Sharon Vick
- Sharon J. Vick, Stevens Elementary School, Dawson, MN
This activity consists of classroom lessons where children observe tree leaves and compare and contrast those leaves leading to an understanding of the terms deciduous and evergreen (and also coniferous). They then use that learning to help them identify the kind of tree based on samples on a chart.
This is an inquiry where students will be comparing and contrasting two different types of leaves with a partner.
- Author:
- Yang, Kong
- Kong Yang Glacier Hills Elementary Eagan, MN
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Used for students receiving Advanced Placement credit and transfer credit. Program of study or research to be arranged with a Department faculty member. Written report required. Permission of Department required.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Textbook
- Author:
- Kosinski-Collins, Melissa
- Date Added:
- 01/01/2006
Elements of cooperative learning
What is takes for students to work successfully in cooperative groups
Identify ways to implement Cooperative Learning strategies into the classroom
- Author:
- McREL
- Robert J. Marzano
- Debra J. Pickering & Jane E. Pollock
This activity will help students learn about Minnesota animals and characteristics that distinguish them from one another.
This activity is a physics lab to detect a magnet's field.
- Author:
- Mary Walsh
This classroom activity introduces students to energy flow through organisms, producers & photosynthesis, and consumers & respiration.
- Author:
- Brad Snyder
- Brad Snyder, (Robbinsdale Middle School, Robbinsdale, MN)
This activity is a field investigation where students find real-life examples of erosion in their school surroundings. Students will extend what they learned during stream table lessons about erosion, deposition, deltas, meandering streams, and dams.
- Author:
- Abbey Payeur
An elementary introduction to chemistry vocabulary, tools and concepts used in science curriculum.
- Author:
- Sohns, Faith
- Faith Sohns
In this classroom activity students will learn about changes that occur in the earth's surface by investigating the process of weathering and erosion. Through interactive lectures and experiments students will understand how weathering and erosion take place and change the earth.
- Author:
- Stafford Gutknecht
- Stafford Gutknecht, Loring Elementary School, Minneapolis, MN
- stafford gutknecht
This activity is a guided inquiry investigation where students will propose a question on what makes an electromagnet stronger. They will conduct a controlled experiment to answer their own question.
- Author:
- Stan Mraz
The students will be able to define solids and liquids from their prior knowledge. The students will be able to verbalize the differences between solids and liquids? Observe, communicate and question when things aren't what they appear to be. Is Oobleck a solid or liquid? The answer is that it is both. Have the students come up with their own answers and to communicate their findings. The students will understand the difference between a non-Newtonian fluid and a liquid or a solid.
- Author:
- Cheryle Theisen, Bethune Community School, Minneapolis MN
This introduction to motion activity has students exploring speed and acceleration using a wheeled office chair and rope to pull a student a given distance and record the time. The results are graphed and different outcomes are predicted when variables are changed.
- Author:
- Linda Breckenridge
This activity is a guided inquiry investigation where students gather data on which soil is the best for growing plants. Student will interpret their data, and develop a conclusion from the data. The student will determine which type of soil they would like to use in the next activity of making their own terrariums. The data collected could lead to further questions, which can be investigated in some extension activities.
- Author:
- kyle johnson
- Kyle Johnson
This activity is a classroom experiment where students learn about sound. Students will use musical instruments to explore the relationship between length and pitch.
- Author:
- Kathy DeCock
This activity is a classroom activity where students use the inquiry method to answer the question "How is sound made?" by observing different sound producers and coming up with their own conclusion.
- Author:
- Darlene Schleis
This activity is a classroom activity where students will create a collage of pictures based upon precipitation/water during each season.
In this biology investigation, students will make observations of the growth of bean seeds to determine what plants need to live and grow in a healthy way.
- Author:
- Anne Flynn