Lesson Plans

Science 

Astronomy Lessons - Elementary School   ||   Middle School   ||   High School

Biology Lessons - Elementary School   ||   Middle School    ||   High School

Chemistry Lessons - Elementary School   ||   Middle School    ||   High School

Earth Science Lessons - Elementary School  ||   Middle School   ||   High School

Physical Science Lessons - Elementary School  ||   Middle School   ||   High School

Astronomy Lessons

Astronomy - Elementary School

• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Luna and Io: A Comparison Study
• Make a Comet Nucleus
• Moon Phases
• Spotting Sunspots
• What Makes the World Turn Around?

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Astronomy - Middle School

• Aurora Borealis: What Creates These Shimmering Celestial Lights?
• Collecting Micrometeorites
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Galaxy Mapping: Why Make Maps of the Galaxies?
• Luna and Io: A Comparison Study
• Make a Comet Nucleus
• Meteors: What Are Meteors and Where Do They Come From?
• Moon Phases: Easier Done Than Said
• Spotting Sunspots
• What Makes the World Turn Around?

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Astronomy - High School

• Aurora Borealis: What Creates These Shimmering Celestial Lights?
• Collecting Micrometeorites
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Galaxy Mapping: Why Make Maps of the Galaxies?
• Luna and Io: A Comparison Study
• Make a Comet Nucleus
• Meteors: What Are Meteors and Where Do They Come From?
• Moon Phases: Easier Done Than Said
• Spotting Sunspots

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Biology Lessons

Biology - Elementary School

• Animal or Plant?
• Bee Stings
• Being Alive
• Do Plants Need Sunlight?
• Egg Fun
• Fish Heads: A Lesson on Adaptation
• Genetics: You Are Unique
• Living in a Tree
• Mushroom Prints
• Have You Ever Met a Tree?
• High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?
• If I Have Acid in My Stomach, Why Don't I Melt?
• Reflexes: Why Does a Doctor Check My Reflexes When I Have a Check-Up?
• Taproot Experiment
• Taste and Smell: Why Does Food Seem Tasteless When You Have a Cold?
• Taste Buds
• What Are Fingernails Made Of?
• What Are Goosebumps?
• What Is an Insect?
• Why Do Feet Smell?
• Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Tape Recorder?
• Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Own Webs?

• Asthma
• Balloon Safari: How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Bee Stings
• Being Alive
• Body Fat: Is All Fat Bad?
• Bone Marrow: What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does It Work?
• Bones: How Do Bones Get So Strong?
• Bottle Habitat
• Brain Injury
• Cancer Causes: Why Do People Get Cancer?
• Cancer Treatments: Is Cancer Curable?
• Coffee: How does a Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?
• Egg Fun
• DNA Fingerprinting: Can Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?
• Dolphin Communication
• Do Plants Need Sunlight?
• Fingerprints: A Lesson in Classification
• Fish Heads: A Lesson on Adaptation
• Hearing: Can I Damage My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?
• High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?
• Hip Replacement: How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?
• How Do Sharks Find Their Prey?: A Lesson in Classification
• How Does 3-D Work?
• How Does the Human Eye See?
• How Does the Oyster Make a Pearl?: An Exercise in Observation
• If I Have Acid in My Stomach, Why Don't I Melt?
• Inch of Skin
• Jungle Survival: How Do People Survive in the Jungle without Food or Water?
• Malaria Tracking: How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?
• Mammoth Dig
• Medical Quackeries: Can This Machine Cure Me?
• Murder Mystery: How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?
• Mushroom Prints
• Nicotine: Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?
• Novocain
• Olympic Training Center: How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?
• Peanut Power
• Pet Food
• Pretzel Prediction
• Proteins
• Rain Forest Animals
• Reflexes
• Reflexes: Why Does a Doctor Check My Reflexes When I Have a Check-Up?
• Taproot Experiment
• Taste and Smell: Why Does Food Seem Tasteless When You Have a Cold?
• Taste Buds
• Tears: Why Do We Cry?
• What are Fingernails Made Of?
• What Are Goosebumps?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?
• What Is an Insect?
• Where Do Dreams Come From?
• Where Does Jell-O Really Come From?
• Why Do Feet Smell?
• Why Does My Hair Get Curly When the Humidity Goes Up?
• Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Tape Recorder?
• Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Own Webs?

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Biology - Middle School

• AIDS: What Is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
• Asthma
• Balloon Safari: How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Bee Stings
• Biological Rhythyms
• Blood Typing: What Makes Different Blood Types Different?
• Body Fat: Is All Fat Bad?
• Bone Marrow: What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does it Work?
• Bones: How Do Bones Get So Strong?
• Bottle Habitat
• Brain Injury
• Broken Bones
• Cancer Causes: Why Do People Get Cancer?
• Cancer Treatments: Is Cancer Curable?
• Cockroaches
• Coffee: How Does a Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?
• Diabetes: What Is Type 1 Diabetes?
• Diet and Nutrition
• DNA Fingerprinting: Can Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?
• Dolphin Communication
• Fingerprints: A Lesson in Classification
• Fish Heads: A Lesson on Adaptation
• Hearing: Can I Damage My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?
• High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?
• Hip Replacement: How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?
• How Do Sharks Find Their Prey?: A Lesson in Classification
• How Does 3-D Work?
• How Does the Human Eye See?
• How Does the Oyster Make a Pearl?: An Exercise in Observation
• If I Have Acid in My Stomach, Why Don't I Melt?
• In-Vitro Fertilization: What are "Test-Tube Babies" and How are They Made?
• Inch of Skin
• Jungle Survival: How Do People Survive in the Jungle without Food or Water?
• Malaria Tracking: How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?
• Mammoth Dig
• Medical Quackeries: Can This Machine Cure Me?
• Modeling the Nervous System
• Murder Mystery: How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?
• Mushroom Print
• Nicotine: Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?
• Novocain
• Olympic Training Center: How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?
• Peanut Power
• Pet Food
• Photosynthesis: How Do Plants Make Food?
• Pretzel Prediction
• Prosthetic Limbs
• Proteins
• Rain Forest Animals
• Reflexes
• Reflexes: Why Does a Doctor Check My Reflexes When I Have a Check-Up?
• Solar-Powered Car
• Steroids: Do Athletes Need to Take Synthetic Steroids?
• Tears: Why Do We Cry?
• Taste and Smell: Why Does Food Seem Tasteless When You Have a Cold?
• What are Goosebumps?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?
• Where Do Dreams Come From?
• Where Does Jell-O Really Come From?
• Why Do you Need a Liver?
• Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Own Webs?
• Wild Lion Vets

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Biology - High School

• AIDS: What Is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
• Balloon Safari: How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Biological Rhythyms
• Body Fat: Is All Fat Bad?
• Bone Marrow: What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does It Work?
• Bones: How Do Bones Get So Strong?
• Broken Bones
• Cancer Causes: Why Do People Get Cancer?
• Cancer Treatments: Is Cancer Curable?
• Cockroaches
• Coffee: How Does a Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?
• Diabetes: What Is Type 1 Diabetes?
• Diet and Nutrition
• DNA Fingerprinting: Can Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?
• Dolphin Communication
• Hearing: Can I Damage My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?
• High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?
• Hip Replacement: How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?
• How Do Sharks Find Their Prey?: A Lesson in Classification
• In-Vitro Fertilization: What are "Test-Tube Babies" and How are They Made?
• Jungle Survival: How Do People Survive in the Jungle Without Food or Water?
• Malaria Tracking: How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?
• Medical Quackeries: Can this Machine Cure Me?
• Modeling the Nervous System
• Murder Mystery: How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?
• Mushroom Prints
• Nicotine: Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?
• Olympic Training Center: How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?
• Photosynthesis: How Do Plants Make Food?
• Prosthetic Limbs
• Solar-Powered Car
• Steroids: Do Athletes Need to Take Synthetic Steroids?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?
• Where Does Jell-O Really Come From?
• Why Do You Need a Liver?
• Wild Lion Vets

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Chemistry Lessons

Chemistry Lessons - Elementary School

• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Engineering Toothpaste
• How Do You Make Paint?
• How Do You Make Rock Candy?
• How Does Soap Work?
• How Does Yeast Make Bread Rise?
• Ice Energy Making Ice Cream
• If I Have Acid in My Stomach, Why Don't I Melt?
• Positively Paper
• What Is Macaroni Made Of?
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?

• Antacid Tablet Race
• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Creating a Salad Dressing
• Engineering Toothpaste
• Guess What?! (a lesson about atoms)
• Household Chemistry
• How Can Rain Be Acid?
• How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?: Making Freshwater from Seawater
• How Do You Make Paint?
• How Do You Make Rock Candy?
• How Does Soap Work?
• How Does Yeast Make Bread Rise?
• If I Have Acid in My Stomach, Why Don't I Melt?
• Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream
• Iron in Cereal
• Lemon Power
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
• Making "Plastic" Using Milk
• Novocain
• Peanut Power
• Playing with Polymers
• Positively Paper
• What Is Macaroni Made Of?
• Where Does Jell-O Really Come From?
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?

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Chemistry Lessons - Middle School

• Antacid Tablet Race
• Creating a Salad Dressing
• Ethanol - How Does It Make a Car Run?
• Household Chemistry
• How Can Rain Be Acid?
• How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?: Making Freshwater from Seawater
• How Do You Make Paint?
• How Do You Make Rock Candy?
• How Does Yeast Make Bread Rise?
• If I Have Acid in My Stomach, Why Don't I Melt?
• Iron in Cereal
• Lemon Power
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
• Making "Plastic" Using Milk
• Novocain
• Peanut Power
• Playing with Polymers
• What Is Macaroni Made Of?
• Where Does Jell-O Really Come From?

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Chemistry Lessons - High School

• Antacid Tablet Race
• Ethanol - How Does it Make a Car Run?
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
• Where Does Jell-O Really Come From?

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Earth Science Lessons

Earth Science Lessons - Elementary School

• Acid Rain: What Causes It
• Acid Rain: The Disappearing Statue
• Air: You Can't See It, But It's There!
• Air Quality and Transportation
• Breathing Easy
• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Have You Ever Met a Tree?
• How Do You Make Paper?
• Let's Catch Some Dirt from the Air
• Living in a Tree
• Make Your Own Lightning
• Making a Sponge Garden
• Making a Cloud Jar
• Materials That Absorb Solar Energy
• The Milk Jug Landfill
• Ocean in a Bottle
• Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect
• Particulate Matter and "The Lorax"
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Plants and Oxygen: Breathing Easy
• Sky Blue: Why is the Sky Blue?
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Solar S'Mores
• Trash Disposal Choices
• Understanding Groundwater
• Water Energy
• Water: Visible and Invisible
• What Is Thunder Made Of?
• Which Way Is Down?
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?

• Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
• Air Pollution
• Antarctica I - Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?
• Antarctica II - Why is Antarctica so Important to our Planet?
• The Awful 8: The Pollution Play
• Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Community Problem Solving
• Contaminated Drinking Water
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Digging the Earth's Crust
• Glacier Climbing
• Glass Recycling
• Gold Mine
• Greenhouse Effect
• How Are Caves Formed?
• How Can Rain Be Acid?
• How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?: Making Freshwater from Seawater
• How Do You Make Paper?
• Lightning
• Making a Sponge Garden
• Make Your Own Lightning
• Making An Anemometer
• Making a Water Sampler
• Materials that Absorb Solar Energy
• The Milk Jug Landfill
• The "Minimum" Solar Box Cooker
• Model of the Greenhouse Effect
• Ocean in a Bottle
• The Old Windbag
• Olympic Solar Energy
• Ozone Pollution: Smog Alert
• Particulate matter: How Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?
• Phases of the Moon
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Rain Forest Plants
• Rain or Shine: Lessons to Explore Meteorology and Weather
• Re-creating the Greenhouse Effect
• Science Safari: Energy Resources
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Sky Blue - Why is the Sky Blue?
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Solar S'mores
• Sunken Slave Ship
• Temperature Inversion
• Trash Disposal Choices
• Understanding Groundwater
• Using Solar Energy: The Solar Apple Baker
• Water Energy
• Wetlands - What Are They and Why Are They So Important?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?
• What Is Wind
• What Makes the World Turn Around?
• What Is Thunder?
• White Water Rafting
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?
• Wilderness Training
• Wind Blow

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Earth Science Lessons - Middle School

• Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant
• Air Pollution
• Antarctica I - Why Do Scientists Go to Antarctica?
• Antarctica II - Why is Antarctica So Important to Our Planet?
• Avalanche Rescue - How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?
• The Awful 8: The Pollution Play
• Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• The City from the Ooze
• Community Problem Solving
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Digging the Earth's Crust
• Dinosaur I - Finding and Dating
• Dinosaur II - Assembling a Dinosaur
• Equator - What Is Life Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?
• Gems - How Do Gemstones Get Their Color?
• Glacier Climbing
• Glass Recycling
• Gold Mine
• Greenhouse Effect from Newton's Apple
• The Greenhouse Effect
• How Are Caves Formed?
• How Can Rain Be Acid?
• How Do We Get the Impurities Out of Drinking Water?: Making Freshwater from Seawater
• How Do You Make Paper?
• Lightning
• Making An Anemometer
• Making a Water Sampler
• The "Minimum" Solar Box Cooker
• Model of the Greenhouse Effect
• Oil Spills - How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?
• The Old Windbag
• Olympic Solar Energy
• Ozone - How Do CFC's Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?
• Ozone Pollution - Smog Alert
• Particulate Matter - How Dirty Is the Air We Breathe?
• Phases of the Moon
• Science Safari: Energy Resources
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• Sunken Slave Ship
• Temperature Inversion
• Using Solar Energy: The Solar Apple Baker
• Wetlands - What Are They and Why Are They So Important?
• What Are the Best Ways to Dispose of Hazardous Materials?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?
• What Is All This Ozone Stuff?
• What Is Thunder?
• What Is Wind
• White Water Rafting
• Why Is a Diamond So Hard?
• Wilderness Training
• Wind Blow

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Earth Science Lessons - High School

• Avalanche Rescue - How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?
• Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Community Problem Solving
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Dinosaur I - Finding and Dating
• Dinosaur II - Assembling a Dinosaur
• Equator - What Is Life Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?
• Gems - How Do Gemstones Get Their Color?
• Glass Recycling
• The Greenhouse Effect
• How Are Caves Formed?
• The "Minimum" Solar Box Cooker
• Oil Spills - How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?
• Ozone - How Do CFC's Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• What Are the Best Ways to Dispose of Hazardous Materials?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?

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Physical Science Lessons

Physical Science Lessons - Elementary School

• Battery Life
• Engineering Toothpaste
• Fish Tank Optics
• The Hidden Jewels of Geometry
• How Do Magnifying Glasses Make Things Seem Bigger?
• How Do You Make Paper?
• How Does a Lever Make You Stronger?
• How Does Soap Work?
• Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream
• Making a Prism
• Making a Shoe-Box Guitar
• Making a Water Lens
• Maple-Seed Helicopters
• Materials That Absorb Solar Energy
• NASA Robots
• Paper Clip Sailing
• Paper Rockets
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Positively Paper
• Rocket Pinwheel
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Sounds Like Science - Bottle Organ
• Sounds Like Science - Drums
• Sounds Like Science - Guitars
• Sounds Like Science - Jamboree
• Sounds LIke Science - Kazoos
• Water Energy
• What Is Macaroni Made Of?
• What Is Thunder?
• Where's the Air?
• Which Way Is Down?
• Why Do I Hear Weird Sounds at Night?
• Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Tape Recorder?
• Why Does a Steel Nail Sink While a Steel Boat Floats?

• Air Cannon
• Air Pressure
• Altitude Tracking
• Antacid Tablet Race
• Balloon Staging - Rocket Staging
• Balloons - Why Are They Stretchy?
• Balloon Vacuum
• Battery Life
• Bells in Your Ears
• Bernouilli Cans
• Bicycles - How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?
• Car Engines
• Dancing Penny
• Density Balloon
• Domed Stadiums - What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
• Energy Transfer
• Engineering Toothpaste
• Falling Test Tubes?
• Finger Boomerangs
• Fire Sandwich
• Fish Tank Optics
• Flying Tube
• Flying Wing
• Four-Wing Paper Boomerang
• Glass Blowing
• Guess What?! (a lesson about atoms)
• The Hidden Jewels of Geometry
• Hollywood Stunts
• Hot Air Balloon
• How Can I Control the Soccer Ball?
• How Do Magnifying Glasses Make Things Seem Bigger?
• How Do You Make Paper?
• How Does 3-D Work?
• How Does a Lever Make You Stronger?
• How Does Soap Work?
• Ice Energy & Making Ice Cream
• In-Line Skating - Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?
• Lemon Power
• Liquid Bottle Rocket
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
• Liquid Rainbow
• Making Paper Airplane Gliders
• Making a Prism
• Making a Steam-Powered "Rocket Boat"
• Making a Water Lens
• Maple-Seed Helicopters
• Match Stick Rocket
• Materials That Absorb Solar Energy
• McEagle Styrofoam Glider
• Musical Tube
• NASA Robots
• Newton Car
• Nickel Karate
• Paper Clip Sailing
• Paper Rockets
• Peanut Power
• Pencil Rockets
• Ping Pong Ball Curves
• Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Positively Paper
• Potato Float
• Robots
• Rocket Car
• Rocket Pinwheel
• Science Safari: Energy Resources
• Scuba Diving
• Sewer Science - Where Does Sewage Go?
• Singing Rod
• Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
• A Solar Heat Experiment
• Sounds Like Science - Bottle Organ
• Sounds Like Science - Drums
• Sounds Like Science - Guitars
• Sounds Like Science - Jamboree
• Sounds Like Science - Kazoos
• Splitting Water - H₂O Hydrolysis
• Static Charged 2x4s
• Straw Oboes
• T.P. Away
• Using Bubbles to Learn about Light Interference
• Water Energy
• What Are Optical Illusions?
• What Is Macaroni Made Of?
• What Is Thunder?
• What Makes the World Turn Around?
• Where's the Air?
• Why Do I Hear Weird Sounds at Night?
• Why Does a Car Horn Sound Different When It Passes By?
• Why Does My Voice Sound Different on a Tape Recorder?
• Why Does a Steel Nail Sink While a Steel Boat Floats?
• Wooden Helicopter

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Physical Science Lessons - Middle School

• Air Bags and Collisions - How Do Airbags Prevent Automobile Injuries?
• Air Cannon
• Air Pressure
• Air Pressure - What is Air Pressure and How Can It Be Measured?
• Aircraft Fire Rescue - How Does a Firefighter Put Out an Airplane Fire?
• Altitude Tracking
• Airfoil Experiment 1
• Antacid Tablet Race
• Balloon Staging - Rocket Staging
• Balloons - Why Are They Stretchy?
• Balloon Vacuum
• Battery Life
• Bells in Your Ears
• Bernouilli Cans
• Bicycles - How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?
• Car Engines
• Circus High Wire - How Do Tightrope Walkers Keep Their Balance?
• Cryogenics - Science - Fact or Science Fiction?
• Dancing Penny
• Demonstrating Dew and Frost
• Density Balloon
• Domed Stadiums - What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
• The Dry Compass Experiment
• Energy Transfer
• Falling Test Tubes?
• Finger Boomerangs
• Fire Sandwich
• Fish Tank Optics
• Flying Tube
• Flying Wing
• Four-Wing Paper Boomerang
• Frisbee Physics - How Does Physics Play a Role in Frisbee Flying?