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The Height of the Soap Bubbles

This inquiry lesson is designed to use as a review of the scienctific method, quantitative and qualitative processes, graphing, and making conclusions.

Simple Machines

Overview: Students will build upon their skills in explaining and understanding how simple machines work. Incorporated into these skills will be activities investigating pulleys, inclined planes, and wheel and axle. These activities will explore the following concepts: • Understand how each of these simple machines work. • Understand the mechanical advantage and efficiency of a machine.

Learning About Heat

The teacher will provide students with a variety of activities focusing on heat, heat transfer, molecular motion, and reflection/absorption of solar radiation.

Using Scientific Inquiry and Technology to Understand Gravity

Students will build upon their skills in graphing, scientific inquiry, and measurement. Incorporated into these skills will be activities investigating Gravitational Interactions. These activities will explore the following concepts:

1. Gravity is a non-contact force acting upon an object which can be described in terms of magnitude and direction, and can be measured by weight.
2. Graph data can be explained through an energy diagram.
3. Every object exerts a gravitational force on every other object.

Background information for constructing a graph: Purpose – a graph shows relationships between two variables. With this activity the focus is on making a graph using the acronym TAILS. The acronym is intended to help guide students in constructing graphs. “T” stand for title, “A” for axes, “I” for intervals, “L” for labels, and “S” for spacing. Both the “x” and “y” axes need to be present and in the positive direction. The “x” axis is known as the independent variable while the “y” axis is known as the dependent variable. All intervals need to be at equal lengths in the spacing along the axes. The axes intervals must have enough room to easily have the minimum and maximum values. Labels must be placed on both axes with the variable itself and the units used to measure them.

What's for Lunch? (lesson 2 of 3)

Students will gain understanding with the relationships between food chains and food webs. Students will be able to distinguish the roles of predator and prey.

What's for Lunch? ( 1 of 3 lessons)

Students will compare and contrast hervivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.

Missouri's Vanishing Treasures - Prairies

This lesson is the beginning of the Missouri's Resources Unit in Environmental Science. The goal is to introduce students to local prairie resources and the efforts to preserve and conserve these resources. Students will take a field trip to a local public prairie, hear presentations on prairie research from experts and be required to use that information in a web quest that will be completed after the field trip. The web quest task asks students to play the role of individuals who are finalists for a large sum of grant money. They have one week to develop a presentation to convince the committee to award funding for them to preserve a very large tract of native prairie in Northwest Missouri. The products of the web quest activities are then included in the oral presentation given to the committee (myself and two other teachers).

Mammals

In this unit students will learn many characteristics of mammals and be able to group them into the 18 main orders of which mammals belong.

Blood Unit

The unit on blood gives students the ability to understand the different types of blood and how they play a role in transfusions. This unit also helps the students to understand the process used by lab technicians when it comes to finding illnesses.

The Adventures of Your Lunch

In this unit, students researach the digestive system and organize a food's journey on a flow chart. Then, they take their knowledge of the digestive system to creative heights. They will create a children’s book, describing the journey through the digestive system from the point of view of the food being digested, from lunch tray to restroom.