Intermediate Science Lesson Plans
Intermediate Science Lesson Plans are available from the Columbia Education Center in Portland, Oregon, they're aimed at science educators and students alike and provide some very useful templates for education. Sciencebase also provides a range of science experiments that can be carried out as part of an extracurricular program. The following is a brief list of the science lesson plans available from CEC:
- A unit on Earth, Sun, Moon and Stars (5)
- Hands on activity on photosynthesis (6-8)
- Salmon Homing Instincts: Hands-on activity (4-8)
- Owl pellets used to teach the food chain (4-12)
- Food labels to study nutritional value (4-12)
- Life in the future, good descriptions (4-12)
- Cloud formation activity (5-12)
- Fruits and Vegetables; Reproduction (6-8)
- Sunrise/Sunset, collecting data (4-12)
- Drugs: Role play child of alcoholic (7-12)
- Environmental unit on Solid Waste (6)
- Making 3-D plant and animal cells (6-10)
- Genetics - taster or non-taster (4-12)
- Force, order, equilibrium. Air...What Gives? (3-12)
- Building a psychrometer (6-9)
- Physics or Chemistry, investigating force, distance and time (8)
- Tasty Solution; solvent activity with candy (7-9)
- Biology; Desert plant and animal adaptation (4-12)
- Hot Air Balloon; making and experimenting with flight (4-12)
- Recycling using junk mail (3-12)
- Solid Waste Management: 'Let's Talk Trash' (5-6)
- 'How Cells Duplicate, Why and Where Something Can Go Wrong', study of DNA (7)
- 'Jello Cells', excellent hands-on activity to study cells membranes & walls (6-9)
- 'Flight Platform', study of forces acting upon a plane (6-8)
- 'Excavating Your Recycling Bin as a Fossil Record' (6-12)
- 'Downhill Discoveries', hands-on activity discovering potential and kinetic energy (5-8)
- 18'Protozoans', hands-on activity studying one-celled protozoans (6-8)
- 'Chemical Changes', activities to illustrate different types of chemical changes (6-8)
- 'Laws of Reflection', student developed (7-9)
- 'Strands Walk', an ecological observation (5-7)
- '3-D Magnetic Field', activity to make and see a magnetic field (6-8)
- Introducing Chromatography (6-8)
- Weathering Experiment, activity to observe 'rock' weathering (6-8)
- 'How to Make a Kaleidoscope', demonstrating light properties (6)
- 21Understanding the 'Theory of Superposition', (5-9)
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