Community in the Classroom

Lesson Plans

Kindergarten

Life Science
Animals Around the World (Domingo 06-07)
Build-a-Bug (Entomology Group 07-08)
Germs and Your Body (Alber Group 07-08)
Seeds (Plant and Microbial Biology Group 07-08)

Physical Science
Buoyancy: Who Sank the Boat? (Tia 07-08)

First Grade

Life Science
All About Seeds (Okrent, Shurlach, Jones 07-08)
Ask A Tree How Old It Is (DeChant 06-07)
Build-a-Bug (Entomology Group 07-08)
Plant Parts (Hausmann 04-05)
Turtles (Barnett and Begum 05-06)


Physical Science
Does Air Really Exist? (Held 07-08)
Mysterious Liquids (Tilley Group 07-08)
Sailing Clips, Pepper Fish, Penny Drips: Buoyancy and Surface Tension (Fatehi 07-08)
States of Matter (Sarpong Group 07-08)

Second Grade

Life Science
Biodiversity in Insects (Bennett 07-08)
Butterflies (Levinson 06-07)

Earth Science
Dirt On Soils (Farmer 05-06)
Fun With Fossils (Batavia 07-08)
Soil Isn't Dirty (Ryals 06-07)

Physical Science
How to Make Things Fly (Smythe 06-07)
Observing Sound (Wijeyeratnam 03-04)
What is Sound (Norman 03-04)
Sounds Like Science (Roberts 03-04)
Which Falls Faster (Zenz 06-07)

Third Grade

Earth Science
Global Warming (Alivisatos Group 07-08)

Life Science
Aquatic Adaptation (Merzlyak 04-05)
Oil Spills! (Burch,Cherk,Cho,Nuccio,Whiston 07-08)
Survival Strategies and Adaptation in Insects (Hadjistylli 06-07)

Physical Science
Energy and Energy Conversion (Groves Group 07-08)
Light Can Heat Too (Muren 07-08)
Light, Colors, Vision (Steedman 06-07)
Melting, Freezing and More! (Frechet Group 07-08)
Optics and Light (Venugopalan 07-08)
Reaction Reasoning (AXE Group 06-07)
Solids, Liquids and Gases (Klein 04-05)
Things That Glow: Fireflies (Sadtler 05-06)
Things That Glow (Raymond Group 06-07)

Fourth Grade

Earth Science
Dirt: Making Dirty Water Clean (Palucis 07-08)
Plate Tectonics (Moschetti 04-05)

Life Science
Food Webs Alive! (Entomology Group 07-08)
Microbe-Body (Edge Group 07-08)
Microorganisms: Good or Evil? (Doudna-Cate Group 07-08)

Physical Science
Balloons and Static Electricity (Paulick 07-08)
Electricity and Magnetism (Oldham 04-05)

Fifth Grade

Life Science
Bones (Singer 07-08)
Remember This?: Neurons (Fischer, Olf 05-06)
Science of Respiration and Blood Circulation (Lee 06-07)

Earth Science
Weather in a Bottle (Poon 07-08)

Physical Science
Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice Indicator (Lee, Standly 04-05)
The Big Bang: Stardust and the Elements (Cupp 03-04)
Conductors and Insulators (Johnson 05-06)
Electricity and Food: Glowing Pickles (Garnett 06-07)
The Elements (Norton 06-07)
Elements of Life (Killilea 05-06)
Exploring Heat and Temperature (Chu 07-08)
How Can You Tell One Gas from Another? (Grass 06-07)
How to Think Like a Scientist (Bertozzi Group 07-08)
Periodic Table of Students (Guillaudeu 04-05)
The Power of Air Pressure (Bouvier-Brown 07-08)
Properties of Metals (Bergman Group 07-08)
Polymer Chemistry: More Than Just Plastics (Alivisatos Group 07-08)
Polymers All Over the Place (Prescher, Murphy 04-05)
What is Everything Made Of (Harvey 04-05)

Eighth Grade

Physical Science

Solar Cells (Garnett and Grass 07-08)
Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos (Poon, Detwiler, Loach, Prior 07-08)