Learning Through Lessons

Water Changes This is a Zunal that I set up for one of classes. This web quest is created to show students to teach them about the water cycle. It includes vocabulary and suggested websites that will increase the students understanding. Lastly it does include an in class activity that is cross curricular.

Power Foods This Zunal is highly recommended from all my peers. It was set up by a fellow classmate and is all about the new standards for healthy living and the new pyramid/plate system for healthy eating, also known as food nutrition. This is highly interactive as the students get ready to have dinner with the President and First Lady.

Modeling Shadows This shadow lesson if from the website scincenetlink.com this includes the purpose, context, motivation strategy, and assessment. This in-depth look at a lesson to teach students about shadows and how they change. the purpose of this lesson is "To demonstrate understanding of shadows by creating a physical model of concepts". With the materials on the side of the screen giving it easy access.

Sounds Waves A usually hard topic to understand because of the unseen nature of it. This lesson brings the unseeable into the real world where students can grasp the concept. It creates concrete objects to help students visualize and comprehend the idea of sound. The essential questions for this activity are understand that sound is a form of energy that travels in waves referred to as compression waves, understand that sound waves can travel through different mediums, understand and observe that sound.

Rain forest The students will learn about the term rain forest, discover the importance of protecting tropical rain forests, make mobiles depicting unique and plants found in the Amazon rain forest. They there is books included but my favorite part of this wide grade ranging lesson was the vocabulary terms that could be chosen based on the grade level. 

Life Cycle This life cycle lesson primary focuses on the food web. The purpose is defined as "To help students understand that some insects depend on dead plant material for food and they interact with other organisms in various ways". I like how on the side bar they have the sections with it broken down for different sheets and activities. The motivation strategy is one that I would use in my own classroom.

Butterfly A lesson devoted completely to understanding the characteristics of the life cycle of a butterfly. The activity for this lesson is the observing of a caterpillar, if this can not be done in class I would recommend that the students watch videos of the life cycle so they still see the images. Then do their own interpretations of the life cycle through paint. 

Forced to Move This physical motion lesson on force and motion. The objective "demonstrate an understanding of the terms force, gravity, friction, and speed". The activities in this lesson is engaging in classroom discussion and see how the movement is affective. 

Wonderful Waves This odd lesson has the purpose to "To demonstrate that simple models can be used to represent real world objects that are not easily brought into a classroom". In this case it is talking about the ocean and waves.

Recycle The purpose of the recycling lesson is "To identify those materials that can be recycled and possible uses for these materials". Recycling is an important lesson for the schools now because of how we want students to work through keeping the planet healthy.