This guided inquiry activity helps students differentiate between heat and temperature and goes on to relate specific heat to thermal conductivity.
This activity is an inquiry investigation where students manipulate a variety of objects in a variety of situations to develop an understanding of inertia.
This activity is an indoor structured inquiry lab activity where students will use various types of M&Ms as a model for isotopes. Students will design a procedure to determine average atomic mass.
Isotopic Pennies is an activity where students use what they have learned about isotopes and weighted averages to solve a new challenge.
This is an inquiry lab used as introduction to kinetic theory. It is also a great tool for assessing prior knowledge of the topic.
Short DescriptionThis activity is a field investigation where students construct a diagram of a lava flow from top to bottom based on observations made in the field and then attempting to make connections between the lava flow features and the resulting shape of the shoreline of Lake Superior.
This activity is a classroom investigation where students gather descriptive data on two different plants with a partner, and on other plants during a classroom discussion.They will then interpret their findings, and classify the plants, if applicable, into monocots or dicots.
This activity is a guided inquiry laboratory in which students perform reactions involving metals and hydrochloric acid in order to determine their activity series.
This activity is an activity where students build a motor, learn motor operation and theory, interpret their understanding through troubleshooting, and develop a new, experimental question related to the motor. One follow-up activity would be coupling their motor to a fan blade or other axle to convert electrical energy to magnetic energy into mechanical motion for real world application.
This lab activity demonstrates the difference between stabilizing and directional natural selection using two separate populations of sunflower seeds.
This activity is a puzzle where students organize samples and look for patterns in order to predict properties of missing puzzle pieces. The students then relate their experience to the historical development of the Periodic Table and the ways that the Periodic Table can be used to predict the properties of the elements.
This physics lab activity is an introduction to Simple Harmonic Motion, utilizing the variables of mass, length, and angular displacement to determine their effect on period. Acceleration of gravity is calculated and the results of manual data collection and Vernier LabPro data collection are compared.
This is a field investigation where students will explore and observe sediments within a local gravel pit and from their observation create an investigation that will help to determine the nature of the sediments.
This activity is a project where students build a catapult and analyze the energy transformations, role of Newton's Laws, and role of friction and other forces.
Students will understand that projectile motion is a result of two independent motions, horizontal and vertical by reading, problem-solving, and experimentation.
In this field investigation students document outcrop descriptions, develop investigable questions, present findings, and interpret a sedimentary rock sequence's depositional history.
This activity is an investigation regarding rotational inertia and factors that affect it.
This is a field investigation where students will gather data about the South Crow River using techniques of their own design and develop a group (multimedia) presentation for class presentation.
In this physics interactive lecture demonstration, students will investigate the effects of acceleration due to gravity in a number of different situations using a plastic water bottle. Based on an original activity from Peter Hopkinson, AAPT.
Students will make observations at two different locations and will infer the geological events that happened at each location to explain what they see and create questions for further study.