Free Science Investigations

Winter Solstice

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Brr! As the Winter Solstice approaches, dig into these teaching resources that use videos, simulations, and readings to investigate the changing seasons:

  • How Long Is the Sun in the Sky?: Collect data on sunlight hours for each season in this animation-based investigation.
  • Modeling the Seasons: Create a classroom planetarium and explore the Key Science Concept Video to investigate Earth’s tilted axis and the seasons.
  • Career Profile: Learn how astronomers explore space in this out-of-this-world career profile.

Thanksgiving Science

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Dive into the science of a Thanksgiving meal with video-based investigations. This collection includes:

  • Free Lessons: Cooking Matters, Domesticating Corn, Thanksgiving Leftovers, and From Sun to Table
  • Key Science Concept Video: Watch a video about stimuli and responses while cooking.
  • Career Profile: Learn how food chemists take care of the hidden chemistry in the food industry.

Cold and Flu Season

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Achoo! It’s flu season, the perfect time to teach your students all about viruses and vaccines with:

  • Lessons: Attack of the Viruses, SWAT Those Germs!, A Universal Flu Vaccine?, Diagnosing JJ, and A History Mystery: The Plague Ghost Ship
  • Career Profile: Epidemiologists
  • Biographies: Louis Pasteur and Edward Jenner

 

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Actionable toolkits, checklists, teaching strategies, and more – explore our collection of resources to build a cooperative classroom environment!

Icebreakers and Team-Builders

Icebreakers and team-building activities will help your students get to know each other. These resources will help your students build rapport.

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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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Develop Norms

Classroom norms lay the foundation for successful classes. Giving students a role in creating classroom norms will get them invested in creating a collaborative classroom culture.

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Teach Cooperative Skills

Teach Cooperative Skills

For groups to function cooperatively, students must know what it means to work in a collaborative fashion. Provide time at the beginning and throughout the year for students to work together cooperatively in short, fun, relational group games that reinforce cooperative skills.

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