While cannibalism is fairly common among insects and crustaceans, most backboned animals avoid feeding on their own kind.
In this video segment adapted from United Tribes Technical College, meet Native Americans who are concerned about climate change and believe that action today can help future generations once again live in harmony with Earth.
The purpose of this assignment is to educate and engage students in understanding the immune system's role in maintaining health and to apply this knowledge by designing a scientifically informed recipe card. This card will feature an immune-boosting recipe with carefully selected ingredients backed by immunological research, with the aim of promoting a deeper understanding of the connection between nutrition, immunity, and overall well-being.
This is a lesson in which students use prior scientific knowledge as well as 21st century skills to create a short video explaining the school's healthy eating policy as well as its scientific underpinnings. It is designed as a method of group assessment at the end of the topic of food science.
Students research healthy benefits of nutritional foods using nonfiction text and the Healthy Me! graphic organizer. Students then share their research findings using the Jigsaw cooperative learning strategy. As a formative assessment, students construct an exit ticket response regarding the health benefits of a favorite healthy food.
Students investigate how the major body systems (digestive, circulatory, respiratory, muscular, skeletal, and nervous) function during a traditional childhood tag game. As a culminating activity for the 5th grade Passport Lessons, students engage in project-based learning (PBL) to create a Healthy Living Plan and share research findings regarding the benefits of eating healthy foods and vegetables on the major body systems.
This article, written for students in grades 4-5, discusses the world's most southern active volcano, Mt. Erebus of Antarctica. Modified versions are available for students in younger grades.
Students will experiment with different areas of the garden that absorb heat from the sun the best.
Students will explore the outdoor classroom for natural examples of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation.
STUDENT ACTIVITY -- 5th -- NCThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.Students will explore the outdoors for natural examples of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning to transform Science education for students in under-served communities.
Students will take temperature readings and collect anecdotal evidence to determine how different materials absorb the sun's heat.
In this video adapted from the National Science Center, observe a demonstration to discover how helium gas is inert and hydrogen gas is reactive.
How can we Design Cattle to Better Meet Human Needs?
In this high school Storyline unit on genetics and heredity, students are introduced to ‘SuperCows’. As they explore the vast variety of cattle breeds, students discover that cattle are specialized for different purposes and while similar, the ‘SuperCows’ are clearly unique. Students wonder what caused this diversity and specificity which leads to investigations about the role of inheritance, DNA and proteins.
This course offers an introduction to the history and historiography of science from ancient Greece to the present. It is designed to serve as an introduction for those who have no prior background in the field and to deepen the knowledge of those who already do. We will consider how the history of science has responded to its encounters with philosophy, sociology, economics, and anthropology. Our readings and discussions will focus on determining what makes particular works effective, understanding major contemporary trends and debates in the history of science, and establishing resources for further research.
This course provides a basic overview of the history of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Students will learn about specific contributions of women across a variety of disciplines and will gain a broad perspective on how these contributions played a larger role in the advancement of human knowledge and technological achievement. The class will also grapple with how both historic and modern biases within the STEM disciplines, as well as in representations of women and girls in media and popular culture, can affect outcomes in these areas.
This video will describe the history of the atom starting with Democritus and Aristotle all the way to Erwin Schrodinger and Louis De Broglie
How can a tree grow in the middle of a field if no one planted it there? In this lesson, students will work to find out the answer to this question by learning how seeds are dispersed. Students will observe different types of seeds and see how they sometimes "hitch a ride" in or on animals to travel great distances. Finally, they will use the engineering design process to make models of animals that help disperse seeds. This lesson results from a collaboration between the Alabama State Department of Education and ASTA.
This video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA profiles two scientists who were surprised in 1984 to discover a hole in our atmosphere's ozone layer as big as the United States.
Learn how a cow eats and digests food in this video segment from Nature.
This video segment, adapted from NOVA, explores reasons why Homo sapiens had an advantage over Neanderthals in the pursuit of territory and natural resources.