Lesson Plans

Lesson focuses on the engineering behind big wheels (sometimes called Ferris wheels). Teams of students explore the engineering behind the "London Eye," explore the history of big wheels, and construct a working wheel model using pasta, glue, and teabags.

Lesson focuses on unique challenges in transportation engineering, such as devising a method for skiers or hikers to get to the top of a mountain. Students work in teams to design a "chair lift" out of everyday items that can transport a ping pong ball in a chair of their own design from the bottom of a "valley" to the top of a "mountain" along a clothes line or wire without the ball falling out. Students design their chairlift and chair on paper, execute their design, test it, reflect on the challenge, and share their experiences with the class.

Students investigate the life cycle of an engineered product and then suggest ways to reduce the product's environmental impact based on their analysis.

In this lesson, students will use the "Seeing" portion of the THINK app to understand the difference between climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation.

Students investigate passive solar heating design, building model houses, and testing them for thermal changes during a simulated day and night.

Lesson focuses on exploring how the development of seismographs has helped save lives around the world. Students work in teams to design their own seismograph out of everyday items, and test its ability to record a simulated classroom earthquake. Students evaluate their own seismographs, those of classmate teams, and present findings to the class.

Lesson focuses on surface area and how the shape of sugar crystals may differ as they are grown from sugars of different grades of coarseness. Students explore surface area, nanostructures, and work in teams and participate in hands-on activities.

Lesson focuses on wind tunnel tests that engineers in many industries use to when developing products such as airplanes, cars, and even buildings. Teams of students build their own model car out of everyday products and test their design in a wind tunnel made of a fan blowing through a long cardboard box. As an extension activity, students may design an airplane wing for an online wind tunnel.

Construct a topographic model of Mount Rushmore. After the model is complete, students will use concepts of scale and proportion (similarity) to calculate the scale of their model by comparing it to real-life measurements.

Tìm hiểu về Bắt nạt qua mạng, các hình thức phổ biến, ảnh hưởng của Bắt nạt qua mạng và các các biện pháp phòng chống

Bài học hướng dẫn các em cách nhận dạng và phòng chống những kẻ lợi dụng các thiết bị công nghệ cao để xâm hại các em

Thực hành đọc bản đồ (hoăc lược đồ) địa hình tỷ lệ lớn

Bài 22. Các đới khí hậu trên Trái Đất

Tìm hiểu về các thành phần của đất

Thực hành, tìm hiểu về các điều kiện cho hạt nảy mầm

Nhận dạng lớp một lá mầm và lớp hai lá mầm

Students will plan, build and improve upon a wind turbine blade design and thereby investigate variables that affect the ability of wind turbine blades to do work. Then students will research wind energy as a renewable resource and determine whether or not it is a good alternative to non-renewable resources.

Want an ecosystem in the palm of your hands? This lesson will give kids (and teachers) a chance to get their hands dirty while bringing a biome to life.

Inquiry-based lesson explores human impact on land preservation. Simple, successful approaches to reversing soil erosion.

This lesson is a fun and creative way to compare the diameter of each of the planets (to scale) using Cheerios!

Students will use a perspective view of the photo-textured point cloud data for Mission San Jose, of the San Antonio Missions, as the background for constructing a perspective drawing.

Students will use point cloud elevations of the San Antonio Missions as the background for creating architectural line drawings. Students will learn the basic commands and conventions of computer aided drafting and will practice creating the components of a professional architectural drawing.

Students will design a tinfoil boat based on prior knowledge and will improve their design after learning about density.

Utilize resources available in the art classroom to recreate the Mount Rushmore Sculpture or to design their own version, where they choose the four figures from history that they feel should be represented by the monumental sculpture. Students will ultimately present their final art piece to the classroom with a persuasive argument for their choices of the figures.

In this design-based lesson, students investigate and record the most current earthquake data using the United States Geological Survey website.

This lesson was designed to help students understand the effects caused by obtaining and using fossil fuels. It focuses on the oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. This lesson can be used as a part of a unit on fossil fuels or environmental issues.

In this lesson, students will explore chemicals which help with the water purification process.

Students will understand the importance of designing solutions to problems with a number of emerging technologies and also see real life case studies (such as Wimbledon and IBM's Watson) about how technology can make a difference to daily life. Students will learn about different types of sensor and Radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems and be able to understand their place at home, school and outside of school. Students will present their solutions and show how they are interconnected with different technologies.

Students will time cars at varying speeds and graph the results to show that rate varies inversely with time.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the science of epidemiology, encouraged to think critically about how illness may spread in their own classroom, and investigate innovative technologies and methodologies that can help prevent, treat or control diseases

In this inquiry-based lesson, key chemistry concepts dealing with some algebra will be covered.

Recognize shapes in Mount Rushmore, whether it’s 2D shapes through a series of 2D drawings, or 3D shapes through measurable PDF’s of the 3D model of Mount Rushmore. Use geometric formulas to calculate the volumes of these shapes based on scaled representations. Effectively use understanding of scale to translate these calculations to life-size.

This activity engages students in discussions regarding food safety and organically grown and conventionally grown produce.

Inquiry based activities that investigate demography and the population dynamics of different countries

A design-based project that challenges students to model circulation, exemplifying the exchange of blood gases, as well as disorders that alter homeostasis

In this lesson, students will discover and appreciate how simple machines impact human lives.

Students will devise their own experiments to find lung capacity.

Students are introduced to the concepts of evolution through a simulation of natural selection of beaks of their own design!

During this lesson students will build on prior knowledge as they “create” their own volcanoes. Students will then have differentiated articles to guide them to understanding the literacy target skill of the lesson which is to identify cause and effect.

Chủ đề: Sinh học Thời gian dự kiến: 45 phút Đối tượng: Học sinh lớp 6 (11-12 tuổi)