Studying the Fibonacci Sequence is our entry point for studying Heredity: Inheritance and variation of traits.
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the way energy moves, or flows, through an ecosystem and how that movement forms Food Chains!
Developed for first grade. Students will learn about the uniqueness of each person's individual body. To do this students will identify traits and characteristics of the human body, with a main focus on the uniqueness of fingerprints and footprints.Biology In Elementary Schools is a Saint Michael's College student project. The teaching ideas on this page have been found, refined, and developed by students in a college-level course on the teaching of biology at the elementary level. Unless otherwise noted, the lesson plans have been tried at least once by students from our partner schools. This wiki has been established to share ideas about teaching biology in elementary schools. The motivation behind the creation of this page is twofold: 1. to provide an outlet for the teaching ideas of a group of college educators participating in a workshop-style course; 2. to provide a space where anyone else interested in this topic can place their ideas.
Learn how to create, use and maintain a Facebook page of your own, including setting safe privacy controls.
This lesson for English Language Learners (ELLs) introduces the world's biggest social media company, Facebook. In this lesson, learners will practice reading, listening, speaking and writing. All activities are automatically graded with feedback provided to the learner upon submission.
Learning Activity 1: Watch the 45 minute video Facebook Obsession. During viewing, record benefits and potential concerns raised during the documentary.
Learning Activity 2: Is Facebook beneficial or harmful in the school setting? … in the work world?
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about counting vertices and sides in various shapes.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders an overview of flat surfaces of 3d shapes.
Research physical scientist, Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, is featured in this short (~3 min.) video. Dr. Kirschbaum explains how the integration of her initial interest in math and her subsequent interest in the science of natural disasters lead to her career focus of landslide modeling. Now part of the NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) team, she communicates about the GPM mission and data to the public and to others who use it in their work and/or research.
The Facilitating online communities ourse has been developed by staff in the Educational Development Centre of Otago Polytechnic and is designed to help both formal and informal learners access and interpret models, research and professional dialog in the facilitation of online communities. After completing this course people should be confident in facilitating online and/or be able to critique and offer advice to other people in the facilitation of online communities.
Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about fact families (numbers to 1,000).
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about fact families (numbers to 1,000).
Fact Fragment Frenzy provides elementary students with an online model for finding facts in nonfiction text, then invites students to find facts in five sample passages.
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A fact is something which is true, which can be proven. An opinion is a belief and can't be proven.
Decide whether each sentence is fact or opinion.
Based on what they have already learned about friction, students formulate hypotheses concerning the effects of weight and contact area on the amount of friction between two surfaces. In the Associated Activities (Does Weight Matter? and Does Area Matter?), students design and conduct simple experiments to test their hypotheses, using procedures similar to those used in the previous lesson (Discovering Friction). An analysis of their data will reveal the importance of weight to normal friction (the friction that occurs as a result of surface roughness) and the importance of surface area to the friction that occurs between smooth surfaces due to molecular attraction. Based on their data, students will also be able to calculate coefficients of friction for the materials tested, and compare these to published values for various materials.
Use this for a paper copy of FASA as you wish.
This lesson provides an overview of the major factors that affect plant growth including: water, air, temperature, light and nutrients. If sticking to the basics, the lesson can be taught using all factors except nutrients. However, nutrient information is provided for longer class periods.