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- Anatomy - Cells
- Anatomy - Eyes
- Anatomy - Heartbeat 1
- Anatomy - Heartbeat 2
- Anatomy - The Brain
- Archaeology (Smithsonian Institute)
Provides three lesson plans called Decoding the Past.
- Astronomy - Asteroids (JHUAPL)
Provides lessons about asteroids and the Near Earth Asteroid Rendevous (NEAR) Mission to orbit the asteroid Eros 433 in 1999.
- Astronomy - Collisions with Asteroids or Comets (JHUAPL)
Provides lessons related to the possibility of collisions from asteroids or comets.
- Astronomy - Moon Lessons - Grade 3 (Teacher Features)
Provides 10 days of activities. 11-99
- Astronomy - NASA Educational Materials (TeacherLink)
Provides an annotated listing of educational materials and projects available through NASA. 1-00
- Astronomy - Solar System Lesson Plan
Provides a lesson plan in the solar system, plus Web links to other resources. 12-99
- Astronomy - Space Station (Parkinson)
Provides a project for students to build a model space station.
- Astronomy Lessons (Awesome Library)
- Astronomy and Physics Lesson Plans (Rutgers)
Provides lesson plans by topic. Includes grade level. 3-00
- Botany - Grade K - 8 Garden-Based Learning (National Gardening Association)
Provides lessons and resources for classes on gardening and botany.
- Botany Lesson Plans (ERIC - AskERIC)
Provides 9 lessons. Includes grade level.
- By Grade Level (Lesson Plans Page - Eduscope)
Provides hundreds of lessons by grade level. 4-00
- By Grade Level and Standard (Copernicus)
Provides a Curriculum Matrix of learning resources, lesson plans, and activities mapped to essential academic standards. 1-00
- By Grade Level and Subject - California Science for K-12 (California SCORE)
Provides a directory of lessons organized by the California Science Framework for K-12. California's framework for curriculum standards is similar to the national standards for science, as well as standards in many states.
- By Grade and Subject - Science Lessons (Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Coalition)
Provides lessons by subject and grade level.
- Chemistry - Acids and Bases (University of British Columbia - Herring, Beckie, Gosden, Dossa, Cheng, Lau, Gozjolko, and Pleasance)
Provides 20 sequential lessons, including quizzes. 2-00
- Chemistry - Archimedes' Principle (Seely)
Provides two methods of determining the density of a material. 2-00
- Chemistry - Drill on Elements (Ivler)
Provides interactive drills or exams.
- Chemistry - Paper Chromatography (Seely)
Provides a lesson using common materials available in a classroom for separating chemicals into component parts. 2-00
- Chemistry - Separating the Components of River Water (Seely)
Provides a lesson using common materials available in a classroom. 2-00
- Chemistry Curriculum (Aldridge)
Provides an outline, with links, to classes in chemistry for grades 9 - 12.
- Chemistry Lessons (Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Coalition)
Provides lessons by subject and grade level.
- Chemistry Lessons and Resources (Guch)
Provides a wide variety information for teachers and students as well as lessons.
- Critical Thinking Lessons and Activities (Foundation for Critical Thinking)
Provides lessons by grade level that strengthen critical thinking. Provides an original lesson and then a lesson remodelled using a critical thinking focus. (See the Remodelled Lesson Plans that are listed by grade level.) 3-00
- Critical Thinking Strategies (Foundation for Critical Thinking)
Contains a description of 35 dimensions of critical thinking. 3-00
- Earth Science (Glencoe)
Provides activities and solutions. Topics include the nature of science, matter and its changes, minerals, rocks, views of the earth, weathering and soil, erosional forces, and water erosion. 11-99
- Earth Science - Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
Provides exercises using real earthquake data to help understand both the moving plates and their relationship to earthquakes.
- Earth Science - Solar Power
Provides exercises to help understand the power of the sun.
- Earth Science Lessons (Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Coalition)
Provides lessons by subject and grade level.
- Earth Sciences (Glencoe)
Provides earth sciences lessons. 11-99
- Earth Sciences (T. L. Creations - For Kids Naturely)
Provides 10 lessons. 11-99
- Earth Sciences - About Rainbows (Lynds)
- Earth Sciences - Finding Your Way With a Map and a Compass (USGNS)
- Earth Sciences - Global Change (USGNS)
- Earth Sciences - Grade 6 - 8 - Plate Techtonics (Coe and Merrick)
Provides lessons and worksheets.
- Earth Sciences - Maps - What Do Maps Show? (USGNS)
- Earth Sciences - Maps - Working With Maps (USGNS)
- Earth Sciences - Maps and Graphs Lessons (TeachNet)
- Earth Sciences - Water Use (Fort Hays State University)
Provides dozens of thematic lesson plans for use across disciplines. Includes grade level and identifies the standards that are met by each lesson.
- Earth Sciences - Weather Lessons (Kids Click)
Provides lessons for grades K - 3 on rain, animals, dry spells, clouds, and more. Lessons are culture specific and introduce students to indigenous people of the Southwest United States.
- Earth Sciences - Weather with Regional Climates
- Earth Sciences - Weather
Provides an hourly view of USA with exercises to perform.
- Earth Sciences - What Do Maps Show? (USGNS)
- Earth Sciences - Wind - Our Fierce Friend
- Earth Sciences - Working With Maps (USGNS)
- Earth Sciences Lesson Plans (ERIC - AskERIC)
Provides over two dozen lessons. Includes grade level.
- Ecology - Earth Day (Donn)
Provides lessons, links, and activities related to Earth Day.
- Ecology - Ecosystems (New York Times)
- Ecology - Environmental Quality in the 21st Century (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)
Eleven lessons show how children can become involved to improve the environment.
- Ecology - Grade 9 - 12 Endangered Species Conservation (Bagheera)
Provides discussion, questions, and many links.
- Ecology - Grade 9 - 12 Past Extinctions (Bagheera)
Provides discussions and activities related to 11 extinct animals.
- Ecology - Grade 9 - 12 Student Activities (Bagheera)
Provides activities to solve problems, take action, and use artistic imagination.
- Ecology - Health and Pollution Control by Grade (NIEHS)
- Ecology - Ocean Planet by the Smithsonian
- Ecology - The Gaia Hypothesis (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute - Beasley-Murray)
Uses the Gaia Hypothesis as a means to solving problems in the environment. Includes scoring rubric and other supportive materials.
- Environment - Thematic Lessons (Ontario Society for Environmental Education - Nolan)
Provides lessons related to the environment that bring in each of the other disciplines. Some of the disciplines are in HTML (Web) format and others require Acrobat (free) software and long downloads. Plans to convert more of the lessons to HTML format.
- Geography Lessons (Awesome Library)
- Grade -K - 5 Various Lessons (CEC)
Provides over 100 lessons.
- Grade 6 - 8 Various Lessons (CEC)
Provides over 60 lessons.
- Grade 9 - 12 Various Lessons (CEC)
Provides over two dozen lessons.
- Lesson Plans - Elementary Level (Louisiana Public Schools)
Provides lesson plans by teachers and includes the subject areas covered for each. Lessons are arranged alphabetically, by title. 1-00
- Paleontology - Dinosaur Extinction (Newton's Apple - NSTA)
Provides a lesson on analyzing soil core samples, called "Core Box Analysis," on the lower half of the page.
- Physics Lessons (Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Coalition)
Provides lessons by subject and grade level.
- Physics Lessons (TeachNet)
- Physics Problems (Glencoe)
Provides problems, with worksheets and solutions. 11-99
- Physics and Astronomy Lesson Plans (Rutgers)
Provides lesson plans by topic. Includes grade level. 3-00
- Problem Solving (Awesome Library)
Problem Solving lessons are in "Multidisciplinary."
- Problem Solving - Asking Good Questions
Describes how to ask helpful questions, using the development of a biography as the example.
- Projects in Science (Teachers.net)
Provides resources by topic. 2-00
- Recycling (Donn)
Provides lessons, links, and activities related to recycling.
- Science (Michigan State University and Ameritech)
Provides dozens of lessons in science.
- Science - By Topic and Grade Level (British Columbia Ministry of Education)
Provides an extensive curriculum organized by topic and grade level.
- Science - Grade -K - 5 (Columbia Education Center)
Delzeit provides 9 mini-lessons from the Columbia Education Center.
- Science - Grade 4 - 8 (Columbia Education Center)
Delzeit provides 60 mini-lessons mostly for grades 6-8 from the Columbia Education Center, but many apply to as low as 4th grade.
- Science - Grade 9 - 12 (Columbia Education Center)
Delzeit provides 22 mini-lessons from the Columbia Education Center.
- Science - The Structure of Materials
- Science - Various Subjects
Provides additional lessons plans available in the General Science section of the Awesome Library.
- Science Lesson Plans (Bunch)
Provides over two dozen lessons.
- Science Lesson Plans (ERIC - AskERIC)
Provides over 100 lessons by topic. Includes grade level.
- Science Lesson Plans and Projects (Yahoo)
- Science Lesson Sources (Highway 61 - The Virtual Mirror)
Provides the results of a search for "lesson plans science."
- Science Lessons (Columbia University)
Provides over 50 science lesson plans and activities, developed through Columbia University's Summer Research Program for NYC Science Teachers. 6-99
- Science Lessons (Scholastic)
Provides lessons by topic and includes dozens of topics. 12-99
- Science Lessons - Sources (Columbia University)
Provides over 100 sources of science lesson plans and activities. 6-99
- Science Lessons 1994-95-96 Collection (Access Excellence)
Provides over 150 lessons, simulations, and activities.
- Science Lessons 1996 Collection (Access Excellence)
Provides over 100 lessons, simulations, and activities.
- Science Lessons Share-A-Thon (Access Excellence)
Provides over two dozen lessons plans, classroom tested.
- Science Lessons and Activities (Access Excellence) 3-00
- Science Lessons and Curricula (Yahoo)
- Science Mysteries (Access Excellence)
Provides classroom tested mysteries in Science for students to solve.
- Science Projects (Purdue University)
Provides lessons to study elasticity, change, colors, density, and other concepts in early science studies.
- Science Projects by Subject and Level (University of Michigan)
Provides one listing by subject and another by grade level. Provides grade level within subjects also.
- Science and Math Lessons 1 (ALCOMed - SAM-Net)
Provides a dozen lessons.
- Science and Math Lessons 2 (ALCOMed - SAM-Net)
Provides a dozen lessons.
- Science, Math and Technology Lessons (Intel)
- Technology - What It Takes to be an Inventor
Provides an integration of use of the Internet with the lesson.
- Technology Lessons (Southeastern Michigan Math-Science Coalition)
Provides lessons by subject and grade level.
- Weather Lessons - Grade 7 - 9 (Oklahoma Climatological Survey)
Provides lessons on many aspects of weather, such as humidity, temperature, sunrises and sunsets, solar radiation and albedo, rain, climate, air masses, clouds, and related topics.
Papers
- Biology - Brain Lessons (About - Olson)
- Macintosh and ClarisWorks Resources (O'Hora)
Provides tips and tutorials on maintaining a Macintosh computer and using ClarisWorks software. 6-99
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- Last Updated 08/27/00