Students will utilize factually observed or researched information in a creative high interest-writing project.

Undergraduate Learning Assistants have been used to facilitate group work in a variety of ways, such as in-lecture tutorials and worksheets, group work in required recitations, and group work in optional co-seminars. This page describes some of these various ways that Learning Assistants can be used to help make a course more interactive.

The activity walks the students through the processes of Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration.

This activity provides students with a first look at water tension and its role in the life of a water strider.

This lesson helps grade 3 students understand the difference between Vertebrates and Invertebrates.

Learners start by using the Arcadia Earth app’s Keep the Great Lakes GREAT section to glean base knowledge of freshwater’s importance, processes, impacts, and conservation needs. Students will then extend their knowledge to discover water-land and water-human interactions. This lesson incorporates two activities. The first, Water Slope, helps students understand how water interacts with land as it moves through the soil. The second activity, Drip Drop, demonstrates water waste they may encounter in
their everyday lives. Students conclude by discussing possible solutions for water conservation in their communities.

Estimated time required: 1 class period.

Technology required for this lesson: Tablet or Smartphone.

Students are presented with the unit's grand challenge problem: You are the lead engineer for a biomaterials company that has a cardiovascular systems client who wants you to develop a model that can be used to test the properties of heart valves without using real specimens. How might you go about accomplishing this task? What information do you need to create an accurate model? How could your materials be tested? Students brainstorm as a class, then learn some basic information relevant to the problem (by reading the transcript of an interview with a biomedical engineer), and then learn more specific information on how heart tissues work their structure and composition (lecture information presented by the teacher). This prepares them for the associated activity, during which students cement their understanding of the heart and its function by dissecting sheep hearts to explore heart anatomy.

a. This activity is designed for students to work on their observational skills, and the communications of their observations. They will also learn to pose researchable or testable questions, to give critique (and to receive) critique on their comments and research.

This activity is an internet exploration of West Nile Virus and the effects this virus has directly on bird populations. Students will also see the secondary effects on human populations and the interrelationships of the three populations.

Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Simulating a forensic calculation, students build spreadsheets and create graphs to find the time of death of a potato victim from temperature vs. time data.

This activity is an inquiry based lesson focused on students making observations of birds in order to problem solve how to attract more birds to a schoolyard.

In this activity, students use questioning skills to ascertain which pond plant or animal they are. In previous lessons, students have visited the neighborhood pond, made observations, and become familiar with pond life.

This activity is a field investigation where students collect bugs using homemade pit traps, sort them into groups, and then graph their results.

Whonamedit.com offers an in-depth look at the life and accomplishments of scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani. Details his many contributions to the world of science.

This activity is a field investigation where students gather leaves and make observation about the leaves and based on their data determine which leaves are the most common where they live.

This is an out of class exercise that allows students to explore biological molecules that contain heme like molecules with metals bound in them. The properties of these molecules give them different colors and functions, but all are related evolutionarily.

The Children's Museum of Cleveland  is temporarily closed to the public due to the pandemic.  Staff at CMC have created these kits for distribution through the Cleveland Public Library during the summer 2021, anticipating a reopening for families.  Contact your branch library for details. Cleveland Public Library Brooklyn Branch has created this guide to work with teachers and students at Cleveland Metropolitan Schools Denison K-12 and Horizon Science Denison Academy.

This activity is a lab intended to help students learn to setup an investigation with worms to learn about experimental design and data collection.

This activity is a creative writing assignment in which first graders create poetry from scientific information about dragonflies.

A new virtual interview series from LabXchange at Harvard University, the Xchange showcases the diverse roles, projects, and initiatives that make up the intersecting fields of science, education, and health. Hosted by LabXchange Faculty Director Robert Lue, the first season features a range of perspectives on the impact of COVID-19.