Great Lessons

See the water cycle first hand with a soda bottle terrarium. You simply need a 2 liter bottle, some soil, gravel, grass seeds and water. The 2 liter bottle needs to be cut in half at the top to set up the terrarium and then taped together with packing tape. Fun project that follows the scientific method and has follow up questions to target the middle school standards.

This web quest helps students learn and apply knowledge about plate tectonics. They are introduced to information and examples of the different types of pate interactions and the consequences of those interactions. They are also exposed to real life examples of pate interactions.

I have been doing this project for years and the kids love it! I've recently updated it to include the new NGSS standards which involve plant adaptations as well as animals. Really targets grade 7 and 8 standards! Includes checklist and rubric. I usually do some of this project in class and some at home. Students then present their projects in small groups and students peer grade each other using the rubric.

This lesson has multiple stations of hands on lessons that reinforces and teaches about kinetic and potential energy and transfers between them! This lesson has 9 easy to set up stations that target all standards that involve kinetic and potential energy! Templates for tables and graphs to collect data included. I've done these stations for a couple of years now and I have refined these stations so they are very streamlined and easy for students to follow. Super fun and engaging!! Some mater

This chart lists and describes many animal and plant structural adaptations and plant structural adaptations. It also notes whether the adaptation is good for survival or reproduction or both. Goes well with any lesson or project about adaptations as a reference.

This assignment has 3 pages of reading on atomic energy with questions that follow.

Students explore information about satellites and the Landsat satellite in particular.