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This lesson is designed to introduce students to some of the major organs and organ systems in the human body. The lesson is planned as an exploration. So instead of the teacher telling students what the main parts of the human body are and telling students where they are located, and what they do—the teacher provide students with the opportunity to explore so students can reveal their misconceptions. The exploration is a group work activity, which allows students to collaborate and make group d

This lesson focuses on the concept of expressing time as fractions thus addressing one of the real-life application of fractions. The lesson is designed as an exploratory lesson where students explore the answer to the question - How can we express minutes in an hour as a fractional number? This lesson consists of detailed instructions for an Engagement, Exploration, and Explanation. In the Engagement the teacher first check on students’ prior knowledge and understanding of being able to read a

Working with teacher candidates and new teachers during the induction year, one thing I found that these young teachers struggled with was being able to ask effective questions and delivering explanations. Questions they ask are often closed questions, or are not relevant to what the students had explored. Furthermore the explanations were often non-existent. This package was designed as a continuous professional development workshop for teacher candidates and new teachers to help them strength

This is a freebie from a course I teach called Exploring the Nature of Science. Understanding what a hypothesis is fundamental to understanding the Nature of Science, and developing Scientific Literacy. So I hope this information will help in someway. If you download this product, I would really appreciate feedback as I am continually looking for ways to improve my courses, and feedback really helps.

This lesson was designed to introduce to students organs in plants – roots, stems , and leaves. The lesson focuses on two specialized plant cells – palisade cell and root hair cell. The lesson incorporates all five components of the 5E lesson plan with a rather interesting elaboration that helps students connect concepts. There are 10 pages – one page lesson plan plus 9 pages of Handouts This lesson is part of a series of lessons from the unit Cells, Tissues, and Organs. You can download the un

This product is a half-day workshop, which includes a PowerPoint presentation (31 pages) and word.doc handout Tasks to use during the presentation. The Agenda covers the following items: **Elements of Successful Lesson Design **Identifying and Writing Learning Objectives **Teaching Models **Teaching Strategies The idea of this professional development workshop is to provide teachers with opportunities to explore different teaching models and teaching strategies. Very useful for new teachers (an

One of the most difficult concepts students have problems with is distinguishing between the terms ‘melting’ and ‘dissolving.’ Oftentimes, these two terms are used interchangeably to describe a solid ‘disappearing in a liquid.’ This lesson allows students to experience melting and dissolving and distinguishing between the two concepts. The lesson consists of a basic experimental procedure. The lesson is designed to be completed in 1 hour based on the 5E teaching and learning model. Wroksheets an

This activity is a card sort activity you can use at the start of a lesson on friction, or maybe even at the end to lead a class into discussing science and improving students' science communications. The students sort the statements as TRUE FALS and PARTIALLY TRUE. This can lead to a discussion to find out what they chose to be true or false. Where students choose partially true you can ask them questions to determine why: Can you give examples where this is true? Can you give examples where

This product is a workshop, which includes a PowerPoint presentation (19 slides) and Handout Tasks (10 pages) to use during the presentation and for teachers to use after the presentation. This is part of a series of professional developments designed as workshops for teacher candidates and first and second year teachers, though it may also be used as refreshers for veteran teachers. The Agenda covers the following items: ++Defining Inclusive Teaching ++Identifying Student Groups for Inclusion +

This lesson was designed for students learning to perform simple multiplication tasks. The Halloween theme enables students to relate to a real-life situation where multiplication is considered to be a necessary skill. The learning objectives for this lesson are: **Demonstrate use of addition of single digit and double-digit numbers **Interpret products of whole numbers **Solve problems involving multiplication This lesson includes - a detailed lesson plan based on the 5E model incorporating an

This is a bundle of three lessons (22 pages) to introduce students to the concept of electric circuits and accompanying PowerPoint slides (23 slides). The three lessons are planned in detail with clear learning objectives (what students should be able to do) and learning outcomes (what students should have achieved). The package also contain, materials needed for each lesson and student worksheets. The lessons include: ***LESSON 1 (Conductors and Insulators). This lesson was planned using the In

This is a workshop for teachers who are still green and growing to learn about strategies to help them plan effective lessons to engage, challenge, and motivate students. The workshop can be carried out as one whole-day session or two half-day sessions allowing the teachers to put into practice ideas introduced here. It may also be part of on-going faculty professional development sessions incorporated into departmental meetings. The package consists of a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation with 6

This Awesome Science Bundle was designed to develop young students' conceptual understanding of the concept of two of the states of matter that they can easily relate to - Solids and Liquids. There are 10 lessons in this unit, some of which are sold on TpT as separate lessons. Lesson 1—Nature’s collectibles* Lesson 2—Exploring wood and metal solids Lesson 3—Exploring solid fabrics Lesson 4—Why don’t we have paper spoons?* Lesson 5—Shapes of solids and constructing structures Lesson 6—Changing so

This package consist of an investigation and an assessment based on the phenomenon that the round-trip time made by a pendulum is affected by a variety of factors, such as the mass of the pendulum, the length of the pendulum string.PhenomenonThe round-trip time made by a pendulum is affected by a variety of factors, such as the mass of the pendulum, the length of the pendulum string. Performance Expectations3-PS2-1 Motion and Stability: Forces and InteractionsPlan and conduct an investigation t

The ‘shape’ of a liquid is something young students find difficult to comprehend when introduced for the first time as we don’t talk about liquid having a shape. This lesson was designed to help students build their foundational knowledge that a liquid takes on the shape of a container. It engages students through an original game to exploring what shape certain liquids are.

This is a lesson designed to allow students to explore the physical properties of four materials from which most of our everyday objects are made from - wood, metal, paper, and plastics. The lesson is based on the 5E model, but only providing strategies for engagement, exploration, and explanation. The lesson consists of the relevant worksheets needed for this lesson.

This is a package of five lessons based on the real world application of fractional numbers. The lessons are based on the application of mathematics in a real-world problem solving. So each lesson begins with a scenario. The main idea for these five lessons is based on a landscaping company hired to landscape areas of a town where students are applying their knowledge of fractional numbers, area, perimeter, decimal numbers, and degrees in a circle The lessons are planned as follows: Lesson 1—st

What do scientists mean when they say they make observations?What exactly do they mean by the term ‘observation’?Are they simply looking at something or is there more to it than meets the eye? The biggest misconception students take on with respect to making observations is that looking at something using just their sense of sight is ‘making observations.’ This package consists of two lessons. In the first lesson students will learn how to use their senses of sight, touch, and smell to colle

This product consists of two lessons you could use to introduce students to understanding forces. In Lesson 1 the students learn to define a force and explore different types of contact and non-contact forces. In Lesson 2 the students learn the difference between mass and weight and learn to measure the magnitude of a force exerted by an object.

In this guided inquiry, the teacher will take students through an exploration to understand and be able to plan a 'Fair Test' to determine "WHICH LIQUID WILL POUR THE FASTEST" This lesson includes detailed instructions to the teacher student recording sheet a suggested material list a guide to teaching the concept of 'fair testing'