Project Paperclip, the Redstone Arsenal, and the Huntsville Space Center are all featured in a resource that investigates the contributions of Dr. Werner von Brawn and other German scientists to the US space program....

High schoolers investigate the historical events that have surrounded The Space Race. They conduct research using a variety of resources and focus upon the progress between Russia and The United States. Students describe the events that...

Students identify the challenges encountered by astronauts in operating a planetary rover. For this space science lesson, students create a rover using their team members. They follow a command sequence from the driver and navigate...

Students use the Internet to find events in space history to include in a timeline. They recognize the cause and effect relationships between events that happened in the exploration of space. They see how to use the TimeLiner software.

Students conduct an experiment about air volume, density, and pressure. In this air lesson plan, students discuss air, and how it moves. They make predictions about what will happen during the balloon and string experiment. They document...

Learners work with a partner using the Internet to find the answers to a web quest about space exploration. They work in cooperative groups to discuss information and evaluate its importance to space exploration.

Second graders practice utilizing multiple tens frames and dice to race to fifty or one hundred. They calculate tens and ones to find out how many counters they have on their grid and how many more they need to get to fifty or one...

Students discover the meaning of the word pioneer by using a variety of different activities. They are introduced to some of the pioneers of aviation in Ohio. They use coins and conduct research about some of the persons who accomplished...

Learners examine the competition between the United States and Russia to put the first man in space. In groups, they use the internet to identify areas in which the two countries cooperated with one another to promote space exploration....

Students explore the transit of Venus and the information that this minieclipse provides about the distance between the Earth and the sun. They create their own astronomical units.

Students examine how they use batteries, then read a news article about how cars are being designed to use batteries. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then...

Students practice addition facts, record data, and construct a bar graph. In this probability activity, students participate in a board game in which bicycles move towards a finish line based on players completing addition problems. Dice...

Students work togeter and work on fitness by playing a game with 36 dome cones, 36 index cards, 6 jump ropes, tally sheets, 6 small clip boards and pencils, 6 hula hooops, and 6 regular cones.

Learners split into groups of three with one student standing inside a hula hoop at mid-court pretending to be Rudolph. The other two start at the starting cone and take turns riding the scooter, delivering one bean bag to Rudolph....

Students recognize the parts of a sentence while working on their locomotor skills. Students, in teams, race to words on index cards. The team collecting enough cards to create a complete sentence wins. Additional variations on the...

Learners categorize items into one of the three states of matter. They participate in a demonstration in which they represent particles of matter. Finally, they complete an experiment in which they "race" top see who can make acetone...

Students participate in a practice activity in which they must remember the order of the numbers 1-10 and then 10-20. In teams, they participate in a relay race in which they must place number cards in the correct order on a number line.

Many of the issues facing 21st Century learners are challenging and even discussing these issues can be a challenge. So how do teachers prepare learners for these difficult conversations? How do instructors create a safe classroom where...

Students identify relationships between scientific concepts and their historical roots. They discuss and debate issues of ethics in science, specifically on the concept of genetic engineering and describe the processes of cloning and...

Comparatively speaking, does a bug travel farther than a human in 10 seconds? Get a bug and measure how far it travels in 10 seconds. Have a human team member run for 10 seconds and calculate the distance ran. Answer the question,"Who...

I would use this basketball shuttle run activity as one of several drills in a days lesson. There are several components to the drill and some lead up activities could be done before the basketball shuttle run. I would suggest a basic...

Celebrate the diversity in your classroom with an activity that has children explore the backgrounds and experiences of their peers. Each child is given a worksheet intended to foster a conversation about things commonly associated with...

Students state reasons why spiders are grouped in specific categories, including what distinguishes a spider from an insect. They report on their observations of the spiders. They illustrate their report with drawings in their journals.

In this racial and ethnic relations in America worksheet, students answer 15 matching questions and respond to 7 short answer questions regarding various racial and ethnic groups terms and issues in U.S. society.