Do Well Lessons

This is an accompanying student handout for parts 1 to 13 of the new Cosmos television show. Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions for each episode plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet.

This lab covers and provided evidence for mastery of Next Generation Science Standard MS-PS2-3: Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces. Students are engaged by the process of creating the electromagnets but also understand and are able to make predictions about the factors that contribute to the strength of the magnets. The conclusion and extension questions will also help students to extend what they have learned to real world

This is an accompanying student handout for part 1 of the new PBS series "Explore Your Inner Fish" titled "Your Inner Fish". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet. This episode focuses on how fish evolved into land animals and many of the similarities that humans fish share. The series can be purchased on DVD from Amazon or found online at a number of sites. Here is a link to the episodes on google play: https://play.googl

This is an accompanying student handout for part 1-3 of the new PBS series "Your Inner Fish" plus an accompanying worksheet for the interactive online simulation "Explore your Inner Animal". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions plus analysis questions for each episode. Includes an answer sheet.These episodes focus on how humans have evolved over the past 400 million years.

I love using computer simulations and games in my classroom but I find that if students don't have some type of accompanying worksheet they often breeze through the assignment and miss the objective. I have created a number of student guides to provide teachers with evidence of student learning as well as analysis questions that are designed to deepen student thought and assist with classroom discussion. This assignment is student centered and after a brief explanation students will be working i

Summary: In this lab students test how the mass and height of a marble effect the potential and kinetic energy of an object by rolling different sized marbles from different heights into a receptacle. Students make predictions based on data that they have collected for how far the marble will push the cup. Standard: MS-PS3-1 Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object. MS-PS3-5 Constru

This is an accompanying student handout for part 2 of the new PBS series "Explore Your Inner Fish" titled "Your Inner Reptile". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet. This episode focuses on how reptiles evolved into mammals and many of the similarities that humans and reptiles share. The series can be purchased on DVD from Amazon or found online at a number of sites. Here is a link to the episodes on google play: https://

This is an accompanying student handout for part 3 of the new PBS series "Explore Your Inner Fish" titled "Your Inner Monkey". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet. This episode focuses on how primates evolved into humans and many of the similarities that humans and primates share.

This is an accompanying student handout for part 5 of the new Cosmos television show titled "Hiding in the Light". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet. This episode focuses on Light and waves, Alhazan, William Hershel and Joseph Fraunhofer.

Overview: Students in small groups select a natural hazard and create a report for a fictional city about the potential risks that the hazard poses as well as ways that the city can prepare for the hazard in order to minimize the damage. NGSS Standard MS-ESS3-2: Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. Objectives: Students will demonstrate their ability to… research a particular

This is an accompanying student handout for part 3 of the new Cosmos television show titled "When Knowledge Conquered Fear". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 questions plus an analysis question. Includes an answer sheet. This episode focuses on the discoveries and relationships of Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton and Robert Hook.

This is an accompanying student handout for part 8 of the new Cosmos television show titled "Sister of the Sun". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet. This episode focuses on Constellations, Women Astronomers, The Sun and Supernovas.

This is an accompanying student handout for parts 1 to 6 of the new Cosmos television show. Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions for each episode plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet.

In this project students choose either an endangered or invasive species and create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) video using a free web app that informs people of the dangers associated with this animal’s extinction or introduction. This project is alined with NGSS standard MS-LS2-4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. In order to create the project students can use the free app WeVi

This is an accompanying student handout for part 2 of the new Cosmos television show titles "Some of the Things That Molecules Do". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 questions plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet. This episode focuses on evolution, natural and artificial selection.

This is an accompanying student handout for part 1 of the new Cosmos television series titled "Standing up in the Milky Way". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 questions plus an analysis question. This episode focuses on our solar system, the age of the universe and humans relatively short time existing in it.

This Powerpoint includes 13 days worth of middle school lessons that are built around NCSS Standard MS-LS4-1, MS-MS4-2 and MS-MS4-3. This is perfect for a school that is one to one or a teacher who can easily access computers for their students. I have gathered a wide variety of resources from around the internet and created support materials (worksheets ex.) that display student comprehension in order to create a divers and engaging learning experience for students. Included are live labs, vi

This is an accompanying student handout for part 9 of the new Cosmos television show titled "The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth". Keep students engaged while watching with 20 focus questions plus analysis questions. Includes an answer sheet. This episode focuses on Geology, Pangaea, Continental Drift and Evolution.

Summary: In this activity students become the teacher. Small groups research one of the body’s systems and teach the rest of the class about the system with a presentation and a study guide. Groups find out if they achieved their objective of teaching the class by providing their classmates with a short quiz after they have presented. Standard: MS-LS1-3 Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells. Objective: Students wi

This is the perfect final project for any evolution and natural selection unit. In this project students select an animal species and research how it fits into it’s current ecological niche, then they discover it's ancestry and closest living relatives and finally make predictions about how the species could evolve after changes to it’s natural environment occur. For this project I have students use Weebly (which is a free and easy website creation tool) to convey their findings however this c