• Examples:   platform balances, hand lenses, computers, maps, graphs, journals

Just the Artifacts, Ma’am
Actively engages in the learning process via hands-on/minds-on science activities and experiences. Uses appropriate tools to collect and analyze data and solve problems.

Classroom Bunny
This lesson provides experience in measuring and keeping a record. After initial measure of a baby rabbit for a classroom pet, consecutive measures will be taken each week.

What is a Simple Machine?
Students will actively engage in the learning process via hands-on/minds-on science activities and experiences; use appropriate tools to collect and analyze data and solve problems.

Magnify It!
Children come equipped with natural curiosity and creativity and have had many experiences with technology by the time they enter school. In particular, students may have been exposed to optical technology such as glasses, magnifying lenses, or even periscopes, microscopes, and telescopes. Classroom activities should begin to channel students' inventive energy to increase their awareness and purposeful use of tools.

Sorting
The purpose of this lesson is to develop the idea that information can be more easily managed and retrieved if it is logically sorted and stored, using the example of books in a library.

Color Mixing
Science needs to be integrated and hands-on right from the beginning of school. Students need to get used to handling the tools and materials of science as well as learn scientific method and how science is a part of almost everything. This lesson introduces the idea of scientific experimentation - data collection, hypothesis forming, and trial and error.

Spud Stuff
Students will measure, weight, and estimate the size of potatoes.
 

Super Microscope The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) at the New York Hall of Science can magnify up to 100,000 times. This game is a simulation of the microscope.   
                                      
Consumer Testing in the Classroom Brainstorm ways to use the scientific method in testing consumer products.

Science Online A must see! Great site for links to Blueprint Skills, Lesson Plans, Topical Sites, Interactive Websites for Students and Worksheets

Science Clips You will find an alphabetical list of science interactive movie clips.

General Laboratory Safety Procedures Though many of the safety procedures given are for advanced laboratory experiments, it is a good resource for teachers.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) 

E/B: Students keep a year-long scientific learning log to document and reflect on different aspects of science. Students will make entries into a journal on a regular basis using pictures, labels and dictated sentences; D: Students will make entries into a journal on a regular basis using pictures and short paragraphs; E: ...and will write longer, more detailed entries.
E/B: Students will view a demonstration and then examine simple tools (i.e. fork, blender, egg beater, rolling pin). Students will make a magazine collage depicting various tools, then label the work they do; D: Students will break into small groups and brainstorm a list of things that use energy to do work (i.e. pencil, scissors, clock, etc.); E: Students will break into small groups and classify objects that do work by chemical, electrical and mechanical energy.
E/B: Students use a sundial to explain the relationship between time and the changing of the sun's position in the sky. Students will make a chart to show the positions of the sun and the changing shadows on the sundial; D: ...and will write several simple sentences to explain what they observed; E: ...and will write several complex sentences to explain what they observed.
E/B: Students will collect rain water at two different locations and compare amounts. Students will draw and label their observations; D: ...and students will describe their observations orally and through writing; E: ...and will describe their observations using more complex sentences.

 

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