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Students love learning about animals: how animals behave, what animals eat, why some animals are more dangerous than others are, and why animals look the way they do. In this 5E lesson, students investigate why some animals look the way they do—specifically, the advantages of camouflage and mimicry. What are an animal's advantages of being camouflaged? How do animals become camouflaged? As the former driving questions suggest, this lesson is intended for third-to-fifth grade students to investigate camouflage and natural selection. Second, this 3-day (three 50-min class periods) lesson addresses why some animals mimic more dangerous organisms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this lesson, the teacher begins by reviewing some key energy topics with the students. Next, students are asked to focus closely on nuclear energy as a viable resource by closely reading, highlighting, and annotating an article regarding the future of nuclear energy. The culminating activity and evaluation of students understanding of energy and energy resources is accomplished by collecting and grading students’ journals. In addition, students create a poster and write a letter to their senator to either encourage the proliferation of nuclear energy in their state or discourage its use. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Physics instruction looks different from one classroom to the next; however, the outcome of those classrooms should be one and the same. Students should understand simple concepts and be able to transfer concepts to more complex problems. In this lesson, I would like to show you how I provide students an opportunity to explore their ideas before formulae or calculations are introduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this activity, I show how high school students apply their knowledge of density to solve an unknown variable, such as thickness. Students leave this activity with a better understanding of density, the knowledge that density is a characteristic property of a given substance, and the ways density can be measured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is an interdisciplinary lesson designed for middle school students studying landforms and geological processes. Students create a two-dimensional topographic map from a three-dimensional landform that they create using clay. Students then use other groups' topographic maps to re-create landforms. Following this, students explore some basic ideas about how landforms take shape and how they can change over time. As students work through three distinct learning-cycle phases of concept exploration, introduction, and application, they use art, language arts, and mathematical skills to strengthen or form new science and social studies concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]