Lesson Plans / Activities

Content Areas

• Astronomy
  • Catch a Constellation
  • Graphing a Constellation
  • Life Cycle of Stars
  • Shoebox Planetarium Project
  • Show Me the Constellations
  • Solar System Web Search
• Atmosphere
  • Acid Precipitation
  • Atmospheric Pressure Versus Tin Cans
  • Awful Eight - a Pollution Play
  • Bag Balloons for Aviation Education
  • Building a Hot Air Balloon
  • Create Your Own Acid Rain
  • Detecting and Measuring Atmospheric Moisture
  • Fog Chamber
  • Harmful Effects of Acid Rain
  • Hurricane Watch Activity
  • Hurrican Watch Aerial Photos
  • Hot Air Balloon Festival
  • Humidity and Pine Cones
  • Make Your Own Psychrometer
  • Make Your Own Snowflakes
  • Make Your Own Tornado
  • Making Schoenbein Paper to Detect Ozone
  • Sonic Junior Balloonist
  • Tissue Paper Hot Air Balloons
  • Tornado in a Bottle
  • Tornado in a Box
  • Tornados - Nature's Most Violent Storms
  • Tornado - Organization of a Storm
  • Tornardo Simulator
  • Weather Plots - Temperature and Relative Humidity
• Hydrology
  • All the Water on Earth
  • Groundwater Model Activities
  • Groundwater Model Background Reading Material
  • Groundwater Model Building Instructions
  • Hog Farming in North Carolina
  • How Soft or Hard is Your Water?
  • Where to Put the Hog Lagoon
• Population Dynamics
  • Adaptation and Natural Selection
  • Alien Invaders Game Board
  • Alien Invaders Instructions and Questions
  • Alien Invaders Invasive Species Articles
  • Bubonic Plague Instructions
  • Bubonic Plague References
  • Epidemic Instructions
  • Epidemic Reading Material
  • Epidemic References 2
  • Epidemic References 3
  • Groundwater Model Activities
  • Groundwater Model Background Reading Material
  • Groundwater Model Building Instructions
  • Hog Farming in North Carolina
  • Natural Resources Trick-or-Treat Activity
  • Population Dynamics Activity
  • Renewable Resources Activity
  • Renewable Resources Background Info
  • Where to Put the Hog Lagoon
• Change over time
  • Candy Bar Subsurface Geology Activity
  • Creating and Mapping a Cave
  • Earthquake Data Activity
  • Earthquake Data Table
  • Geologic Time Line
  • Hurricane Watch Activity
  • Hurricane Watch Photos
  • Magma Lab Activity
  • Radiocarbon Dating
• Motion and Forces
  • Forces and Motion Activity
  • Forces and Motion References
  • Homemade Generator
  • Hovercraft Instructions
  • Hovercraft References
  • Kinetic Energy Activity
  • Kinetic Energy Background Info
  • MagLev Train Activity
  • MagLev Train References
  • The Physics of Skateboarding
  • Roller Coaster Simulator for Magnetic Board