Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This activity is used to critically analyze the students' understanding of one of the body's structures, the heart, and how it is specifically designed and adapted for each of its functions.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students work cooperatively in small groups to form hypotheses. They will then form theories that can explain their hypotheses and will test these theories and evaluate the results.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: A dynamic laboratory activity in which students crush a cola can as 2 forces equalize. It is a demonstration of wind, weather fronts, action/reaction, or Charles' Gas Law.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students walk through the process of transcription and translation to demonstrate and understand protein synthesis.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Do industries in your area contribute to pollution? Students research the effects of pollution in their area from an ecological and economic perspective which will be orally presented to the class.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students observe and predict how technology and scientific knowledge interact. They then discuss the societal ramifications of this interaction and watch the movie CONTACT.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This lesson is a teacher-directed study of the charges on ions with an easy method of remembering charges based on elements' locations on the periodic table.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: In Autumn most people enjoy colorful leaves, brought about by external stimuli. In this lesson students explore leaf pigmentation through chromatography.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: The students, by taking on the rolls of an animal cell's parts, will relate the structures of the animal cell parts to their purposes.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students will be fascinated watching the movements of the complex animal hidden inside the tiny barnacle shells. This lesson allows students to study the behavior, adaptation, and larval stage of the barnacle.
Subject(s): Science, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students work as a -nerve cell relay team-, each having a specific part (order) in the race. A secret (written) message is sent, in relay fashion, until it reaches the final team member. The first team to finish, and relay the correct message, wins.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: A dichotomous key helps us understand diversity and identify unknown organisms. In a laboratory/classroom setting students design a dichotomous key.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This lesson is a lab activity in which students work in groups to solve the problem, 'Can bacteria arise from non-living things?'
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: The students learn the makeup of the electromagnetic spectrum and how the various forms of EMRs are similar and different from each other.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students in this laboratory activity work cooperatively to produce a desired product, make observations, and examine the effect of heat on bonding forces. They complete a written handout relating the effect of heat on bonding and have lots of fun.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students draw on previous knowledge and create hand-held flip books that show a cell going through the motions of the cell cycle.
Subject(s): Science, Theater (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students work cooperatively to view, demonstrate, and understand the importance of frame of reference. They present a short skit, based on the information from their research, that describes a trip to a nearby solar system.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This lesson deals only with the Earth’s climatic patterns as they relate to the interplay of topographic features of Earth.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students are able to see the combustion of ethanol and then write a report regarding the inability for the ethanol to ignite a second time.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This is a lesson designed to test student knowledge of energy transfer and species interrelationships.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students observe a chemical reaction, determine that a gas has mass, and confirm the law of conservation of mass and energy.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create visual aids that show common constellations. The creations are then used as study guides.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students will utilize their knowledge of RNA transcription, and translation in order to make a protein. They will use a DNA template (portion of the DNA that will code for the protein) to determine the m-RNA and t-RNA sequences for that protein. With the use of a decoder, the students will determine the correct order of the amino acids in the protein. Instead of learning the names of the amino acids that go into making the protein, they will substitute words for amino acids. These words will eventually form a logical sentence (protein) about biology and the processes involved in protein synthesis. The correct linear order of the amino acids determines the proper functioning of the protein; hence, if the students understand the concepts of transcription and translation, they will end up with a sentence that is grammatically correct.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: A presentation demonstrating electrostatic force focuses on how electrostatic forces exist between charged objects.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students perform a lab activity in which they design an animal to live in a specific environment taking into account all aspects of that particular environment.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students demonstrate DNA replication, RNA transcription, and tRNA translation into protein synthesis by building models of each process using candy as building materials.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students identify how a malfunction in a particular chromosome can result in a myriad of genetic disorders that may lead to a person requiring medical care, as a result of a condition caused by the genetic mutation.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students will research a chosen ecosystem and produce a PowerPoint presentation or booklet titled: My Ecosystem and Its Endangered Species.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students engage, explore and begin to investigate their knowlege of the flow of energy through an ecosystem by building a concept map.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students work cooperatively to investigate the efficiency of various household appliances. They share their findings in three to five minute oral presentations.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students identify the components that are necessary for the production of electric currents. This will be accomplished by having the students produce electricity by simply turning an electrical extension cord.
(THIS IS AN OUTDOOR ACTIVITY)
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This is a research project designed to increase student and community awareness and participation in local environmental issues.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Enzymes are specialized proteins that regulate chemical activity in the body without themselves being altered in the reaction. In this lab, students observe how a cell uses an enzyme to rid itself of a poisonous substance.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Lab Activity: Student teams design a paperclip grasshopper and measure its ability to survive a prey by either jumping high, far, or with a distracting behavior. Students relate the ability to survive to the changing attack of predators. (NETS for Students: 3.1)
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students calculate the length of time it would take to fly to each of the planets in the solar system if we could do so by conventional jet and with our fastest spacecraft.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This is a laboratory exercise which is used to calculate the acceleration due to gravity.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students use circles to ‘home in’ on particular spots, showing the ability of scientists to locate unseen objects in space. This activity shows how scientists know certain objects exist in space due to the forces exerted by adjacent bodies. The teacher is to make the additional point that scientists also have to use the concept of forces to determine the existence of minute particles such as atoms, and even smaller, protons, electrons, and neutrons.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Science students develop a concept map to help them organize information, on Plate Tectonics, after reading a selection. Students then organize notes into an outline to further demonstrate knowledge of this topic.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students research a Florida ecosystem and illustrate a food web based on the organisms that live in that ecosystem.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Plants use chemicals from the environment and energy from the sun to produce their own food. The food they produce is glucose. Students determine through laboratory activity the presence or absence of glucose in a variety of plant leaves and stems.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: A laboratory activity confirming the law of conservation of matter by weighing chewing gum before and after it is chewed. ‘ Will it weigh more, less or the same? What happens to the matter?’
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students use stereo scopes to observe brine shrimp on a daily basis and make scientific drawings of the growth and development of this species. Students learn about Artemia franciscana from research at web sites and from their observations.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students use a thermometer and ice to learn that temperature is a measure of the average translational kinetic energy.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students build a balloon hovercraft, take direct measurements, answer critical questions, and make calculations using the data gathered in order to realize the concept of acceleration as a change in velocity.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: All compounds are made of combinations of elements held together by bonds in exact proportion. The demonstration of a simple experiment illustrates the ratio of the elements that make up the common chemical compound of water.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create an electronic story showing the interrelationship of species within the marine environment.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Classification is a systematic method used to diversify, categorize and organize animate and inanimate objects. Students explore these relationships by designing a classification system.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students learn about bond strengths/bond types by observing a demonstration. They apply this knowledge in their own experiments so they can predict bond strengths/bond types based on the locations of the bonding atoms on the periodic table.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Can a jar of pickles affect the quality of your life? Yes! In this lesson, students discover how the production of a jar of pickles can affect their lives. Students will gain an understanding of the interconnectedness between humans and the Earth's systems.
Students analyze how a jar of pickle's life cycle (from creation to discard) impacts the Earth's systems, predict possible effects to their quality of life, and then suggest improvements to current practices in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, etc., that create less impact.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students determine whether light is a wave, a particle, or some combination of each by presenting evidence in a mock trial format.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students perform a lab activity in which they examine the external structure of a preserved fish and find out why fish can survive and live in water.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students practice making hypotheses about what they believe will occur as they perform an osmosis experiment in class.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students make casts of animal tracks, identify, and explain how the animal's feet are adapted for their function.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This lesson is a creative way to illustrate the relationship between the stages in a star’s life and the star’s mass. The student creates a concept map to organize the stages in the development of three categories of stars.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students observe, measure, and calculate acceleration. They construct an accelerometer to make measurements.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students will use crude calorimeters to determine the amount of energy required to melt ice and will be able to calculate the Molar Heat of Fusion of Ice.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: After viewing a short demonstration by the teacher, students will work cooperatively in groups to compile information on the characteristics of groups of elements. They will then present their findings to the entire class.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This shows students that molecules of life move dynamically and powerfully. It’s an interactive approach to teaching diffusion and osmosis.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: The students are to compare the emissions listed on the EPA isopleths over the past five-year period for ten key states. They will use this information to rank each region according to the degree of acid rain problem in those parts of the United States.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students design, build, and present a “Rube Goldberg Device,- identifying five simple machines and all energy transfers that will take place.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students analyze the life cycle of a star, and creatively prepare a presention a star’s life cycle. (NETS for Students: 5.1)
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This is an easy outline for students to follow for identification of eleven white substances that are commonly found in the household.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: To become familiar with endangered species’ habitats and characteristics, students will design, present, and evaluate a visual presentation (kiosk or website) for a specific endangered species. This is similar to the real-world model of Busch Gardens.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students are asked to observe a similar set of items and write a detailed description about one of those items. That description is read by others who then try to select the item being described.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students show how genetic variation of offspring contributes to population control in an environment and that natural selection ensures that those who are best adapted to their surroundings survive to reproduce.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students learn how to ‘read’ the periodic table by applying their knowledge of the construction of atoms. Applications of Aufbau Principle, Hund’s Rule, and Pauli Exclusion Principle will be explained in detail.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students explore the exterior and interior of the human heart, and look at terminology related to the heart.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Through laboratory investigation, students examine the interdependence of the oxygen and carbon dioxide cycle in an ecosystem.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students use oyster shells to observe and identify specific attributes and communicate those in writing to other classmates. This activity helps students to master proper scientific observation and communication .
Subject(s): Science, Theater (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students investigate chemical and physical properties within families or groups of the periodic table. They create and perform plays for younger students in which the dialogue and costumes accurately represent these properties.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students view a teacher-made PowerPoint presentation on how photoelectric devices work, and then they answer FCAT-like questions on the material presented.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Learning about the topography of the ocean floor is easily accomplished when students plot points on a graph, connect the dots to make the ocean floor profile and label the topographical features.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students examine the difference between qualitative and quantitative observations by doing a simple lab activity. This lesson can be used at any grade level. It involves the basic observation process skill.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students are instructed by the teacher as to the locations and uses of all the safety devices in the laboratory. They are then required to sign a safety agreement which assures their commitment to safety in the laboratory.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students are expected to read a [National Geographic] article and complete a reading tool as a group. They then share their answers orally with their classmates.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students determine the density of touch receptors in various parts of the right-hand side of the human body. By using the data collected, students draw a picture of the -Homunculus- of the experimental subject.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: The students, by using a “Decision Making Model”, will recognize, analyze and solve an environmental problem of public concern.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students mix two solutions containing dissolved ions, one containing calcium and the other containing carbonate, which form the precipitate CaCO3. Stoichiometry can be employed to determine the actual yield and percent yield of the product.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students produce a front page newspaper story about St. Andrew Bay (Fl) after completing a field trip to St. Andrew State Park (Fl) and viewing two videos about the bay system. They will use a word processing computer program to complete the assignment.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Physical Education, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students develop various drills to enhance tennis skills. Students practice the drills and use self-assessment.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students work in groups to locate, comprehend, interpret, and evaluate information about celestial bodies that influence ocean tides on Earth. Students apply this information through graphic representations.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This is a research project to increase students' abilities to conduct experiments, interpret data and discuss results in a scientific paper.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students improve their understanding of Graham's Law by using properties of gases to evaluate the rate of effusion of two compounds as they vaporize.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Using information and analytical skills students learn about scientific issues that affect the public by debating their classmates. Students also write brief essays that will show they have learned how to express their reasons for their pros and cons of a particular topic.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Science students use the prereading strategy of discussion and then use a graphic organizer to help guide reading on the topic of the rock cycle.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students correctly record electron configurations for select cations and then perform flame tests on salts containing those ions. Students observe results with spectroscopes and prepare a lab report.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This is a research project designed for students to collect, analyze and present environmental water quality data.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students read a current science article, write a summary of it, edit it, and type it into a word processing program. (NETS for Students 3.1)
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students model the activity of an enzyme acting on a substrate and observe relationships.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create a series of front-page newspaper articles about different theories of how life began on Earth.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Florida has a unique tree population. Using a variety of resources, students will research trees indigenous to Florida, design a Florida map, give an oral presentation, and discern the presence or absence of growth patterns.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create two dioramas out of household materials and additionally provided materials to compare the influence of various factors that impact climate.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Lab Activity: Students study the uniquely diverse structural design of leaves and demonstrate knowledge of interdependence between structure and environment through research, laboratory activity and written summary.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: This is a laboratory demonstration assessing the students' understanding of the law of conservation of matter by weighing the mass of popcorn before and after being popped.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students look at the foods they eat during a one-week period and explore where those foods come from before they are used by the body for energy.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students represent a new predator on a population of colored worms. They mathematically determine the effect of the new predator on the survival and reproductive rates of the worms, simulating natural selection at work.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: Students create connecting food webs using organisms of their own choice. Students list and draw the organisms, then connect them according to their feeding behaviors. This lesson plan allows students to use their artistic talents.
Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12) Description: The purpose of this lesson is to practice using the scientific method with a theoretical problem and provide students with the information management skills necessary to understand and creatively analyze the cause and
effect(s) of an event.
