Matter Mania

26 pages including a scripted lesson plan, interactive class experiments, projects, and worksheets to teach about science, matter, atoms, and molecules. Students will learn about the Scientific Method, they will perform experiments to understand that matter takes up space, and they will learn the Bohr Model of atoms as well as the difference between atoms and molecules. In the process, students will learn about protons, electrons, and neutrons and will learn how to read the periodic tab

15 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and projects to help students understand why some thing glow in the dark. Welcome to the world of Matter Mania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. The objective of this lesson is to help students underst

25 pages including a scripted lesson plan, interactive class experiments and activities to teach about sight and how our eyes work. This lesson covers the basic structure of the eye, how images appear on the retina, depth perception, peripheral vision, blind spots, night vision, colorblindness, and optical illusions. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, hands-on, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming crit

11 pages including a scripted lesson plan, interactive class experiments, and activities to teach about conduction, convection, and radiation. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. This lesson plan is appropriate for grades 2 – 6. This lesson plan can be

13 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class experiments and demonstrations to teach students about diffusion and osmosis. They will learn new vocabulary such as concentration gradient, equilibrium, and semipermeable membrane. They will see that diffusion works through liquids and gases, the effect of temperature on diffusion, and investigate osmosis by studying the effects of both plain and salt water on potato slices. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you

11 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and demonstrations to introduce students to the field of Fluid Mechanics as they learn the difference between Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids. Students will be explore the idea of viscosity by seeing that Newtonian fluids flow as we would expect. They will then explore Non-Newtonian fluids by making their own Ooblek and seeing how the viscosity changes based on the forces applied. They will learn about the fo

24 pages including a scripted lesson plan, interactive class experiments, and projects to give students a basic introduction to the field of genetics. They will learn about genes, traits, and DNA through several different types of experiments and projects. Included are activities where students will explore dominant and recessive traits, they will extract DNA from fruit, and they will make bracelet models of DNA. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun,

How to design a great science fair project. 10 pages including a scripted lesson plan on how to turn an idea into a winning project. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. The objective of this lesson plan is to introduce students to the idea of a scienc

28 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and projects to teach students how the concepts of origami are used in science and engineering. Welcome to the world of Matter Mania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. Students will learn a brief history of origami

13 pages including a scripted lesson plan, interactive class experiments, and activities to teach about the center of gravity including instructions for constructing two toys based around the principles discussed. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. Thi

15 pages including a scripted lesson plan, interactive class activities, and projects to give students a basic introduction to the ideas of cryptography and steganography. The class gives an easy to follow overview of different methods from ancient times until today. Students will practice with different methods of invisible ink, will make a cipher disk, and will learn two different methods of encryption and create their own ciphers. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my

20 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and projects to teach students about circadian rhythms and nocturnal animals. Welcome to the world of Matter Mania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. The objective of this lesson is to teach students ab

15 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and projects to introduce students to some basic concepts of aerodynamics by looking at the science behind Frisbees. Concepts to be covered include lift, angular momentum, Bernoulli's Principle, and Newton's Third Law. Students will then have the opportunity to make their own Frisbees and try them out. The lesson is intended to be a fun, interactive way to show students how there's science all around us!. Welcome

14 pages including a scripted lesson plan, interactive class experiments, and activities to teach about our nervous system, reflexes, and reaction times. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. This lesson plan is appropriate for grades 2 – 5. This lesson p

16 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class experiments to teach the basic concepts of electricity and building a circuit. The lesson covers a basic definition of electricity, series and parallel circuits, switches, and a project to build a quiz board. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers

37 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and projects to teach students about mechanisms and linkages. Welcome to the world of Matter Mania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to mechanical

17 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class projects to introduce students to the field of architecture and to learn to appreciate how different architectural shapes have allowed us to build amazing structures! Topics covered include triangle vs. square strength, trusses, arches, domes, and geodesic domes. Students will test the integrity of these different shapes by building them out of different materials including construction paper, eggshells, and straws. They will als

23 pages including a scripted lesson plan, interactive class activities, and projects to introduce students to the field of geology. Basic concepts covered include the structure of Earth, minerals and crystals, different types of rocks, fossils, erosion, and topography. Recommended companion lesson: “An Introduction to Paleontology”Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, hands-on, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamental

17 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class experiments to teach students some of the basic concepts of electricity including current, voltage, simple circuits, and resistance. They will learn how light bulbs work and how to construct switches. They will make a simple version of a Morse Code machine and a Steady Hand game. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the ST

This is a bundle of The Science of Time and Circadian Rhythms and Being Nocturnal. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. In The Science of Time you will get 20 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and projects t