Lesson Plans

In this section of the blog we have posted lesson plans that have been tested and are effective in our classrooms.

• Energy Lesson Plans
  • Starbucks
  • Forms of Energy
  • Energy Debate
  • Lemon Battery
  • Hand Warmer
  • Food Webs 1 | Food Webs 2
  • LightWaves
  • Entropy Bottles
  • Domino Cars
  • Thermal Energy
• Matter Lesson Plans
  • Atom Model
  • What is Density?
  • Submarine Density
  • Mystery Goo
  • The Nature of Density
  • Atomic Theory
  • Physical & Chemical Changes of Matter
• The Nature of Science Lesson Plans
  • Geyser Demonstration
  • Termite Trails
  • M&Ms
  • Crayfish
  • Agents of Erosion
  • Earths Atmosphere
  • Cricket Lab
• Chemistry Lesson Plans
  • Chemical & Mechanical Weathering
  • Coral Reefs
  • Science, Technology and Society: Water Quality
• Lesson Plans for Informal Science Institutions
  Field trip lesson plans.
  • Botanic Gardens
  • Science Museum
  • Zoo
• Force and Motion Lesson Plans
  • Egg Walk
  • Static Friction
  • Newton’s Laws ( “Save Your Egg!” & HotWheels labs)
  • Build a Bridge
• Processes that Shape the Earth
  • Weathering Erosion Deposition
  • Chocolate Rock Cycle
  • Crayon Rock Cycle 1 | Crayon Rock Cycle 2
  • The Formation of Sedimentary Rocks
  • Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Building
  • Weathering and Erosion 1 | Weathering and Erosion 2
  • Rocks and Fossils
  • Water Cycle with Dry Ice
• Lesson Plans Developed During the SMS Summer Institutes
  • 2009
    • Food Webs
    • Genetics
    • Water Quality
  • 2011
    • The Nature of Science
      • Where da Booty At? A Nature and Practice of Science Lab
      • The Scientific Method and The States of Matter
      • The Amazing Cricket
      • Can You Hear Me Now?
      • X-Factor: Does Your Cricket Have What it Takes
      • Bouncing Balls
      • Temperature and Molecular Motion
      • Hot Ice Cream?
      • What’s for Dinner?
      • Mythbusters: Coke and Mentos
      • Skittle’s Lab
      • Scientific Variables & Heat Transfer Lab
      • Scientific Method: Food Preference & Cricket Laboratory
      • Mass vs. Weight
    • Earth and Space Science
      • What’s the Reason for the Seasons?
      • Electromagnetic Spectrum and Satellite Imagery
      • Erosion
      • Moon Phases
      • Erosion in Real Life
      • Electromagnetic Spectrum on the Dance Floor
      • As the World Turns
      • Life Cycle of a Star
      • Fossil Evolution
      • Save Miami!
      • Can You Smell What the Earth is Cooking?
      • Law of Conservation of Energy at the Miami Science Museum
      • Sun’s Energy and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
      • To Infinity and Beyond
    • Physical Science
      • Solutions & Mixtures
      • Density
      • Mass, Weight, Volume & Gravity
      • “What’s the Matter?”
      • Kinetic & Potential Energy
      • Temperature and Molecular Motion
      • Transfer of Heat
      • Wave Behavior
      • Heat Energy and Change of State
      • Reflection, Refraction and Absorption
      • States & Phases of Matter
      • “The Sky is Falling!”
      • Acids & Bases – True Colors
      • “The Energy of It All”
      • “Transformers: More than Meets the Light”
      • “Roll With It!”
      • “Hot Ice Cream?”
      • Going Through Some Changes: Physical and Chemical Changes
      • As a Matter of Fact…Different States of Matter
    • Life Science
      • The Carbon Cycle Game
      • Cell Theory
      • The Carbon Cycle: What Goes Around Comes Back Around
      • You Are My Sunshine: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Lab
      • The Carbon of Our Lives
      • Outbreak!
      • “Is DNA in You?”
      • The Carbon Cycle: Humans, Trees and Oceans
      • Adaptation & Variation: Survivor – South Florida Edition
      • Nature of Waves
      • “Who’s Your Daddy?”
      • Natural Selection: Bird Beak Lab
      • Life in a Drop of Water
      • “Dr Who? Dr You!”
      • “How Strong are Those Hurricanes?”
      • The Carbon Cycle: Use and Produce