Build Relationships
Relationship-building begins on the first day of school. Get inspired with these ideas on how to begin the school year, as well as ideas for how to build community in the classroom.
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Women in STEM
Women’s History Month reminds us to elevate and celebrate women scientists. Explore free lessons, videos, and biographies for K-12 classrooms:
- Free Lessons: Explore the impact of scientists like Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, and Ada Lovelace with quick classroom activities.
- Biography Video: Watch a video about the life of Marie Curie.
- Additional Biographies: Learn about Isabella Aiona Abbott and Ruth Ella Moore.
First Day of Spring
Put a spring in your step with TCI’s free lessons. As winter turns to spring, have your students investigate why we have seasons. Free lessons in this collection include:
- Dial-a-Season: On the Dial-a-Season handout, draw a picture to represent each season. Then play a spinner game to practice naming the seasons in order.
- Using a Sundial: Build a sundial, observe the sun at different times of day, then construct an argument for why sundials are an effective method for telling time.
- Modeling the Seasons: Model how Earth’s tilted axis causes the season using your bodies to represent the earth’s orbit and passing around an inflatable earth.
St.Patrick’s Day
Celebrate the greenest day of the year, St. Patrick’s Day, with free lessons, simple science activities, investigations, and virtual backgrounds.
- Super Simple Science Activity: Go on a Gold Quest where students explore the properties of gold and then conduct simple investigations to observe reactions in other materials.
- Investigation: In this investigation, students watch a video of rainbows forming and use prisms to investigate the phenomenon.
March Madness
What is the science behind basketball? In this collection of ready-to-teach resources, your students can investigate gravity and heights around the world to learn more about basketball.
- Free Lessons:
- Height Around the World: Students apply data to analyze and predict the relationship between a person’s height and their genetic and environmental influences, Height Around the World, Environmental Influences, and Gravity
- Environmental Influences: Observe differences between two identical twins to observe environmental influences on human development, then make connections to basketball players and your own life experience.
- Gravity: Observe how gravitational force and air resistance work together as an object is dropped.
Opening Day
What is the science behind baseball? In this collection of ready-to-teach resources, your students learn about baseball traditions, explore the relationship between kinetic energy and mass, and more!
Free Lessons
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Read or sing the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” to learn about traditions.
- Measuring Kinetic Energy: Calculate the relationship between kinetic energy and mass using measured data.
- Observing Phenomenon: Explore how the weight of a ball changes how it moves and what you can observe. Think about how this impacts the game of baseball.
Explore Icebreakers
Actionable toolkits, checklists, teaching strategies, and more – explore our collection of resources to build a cooperative classroom environment!
