BSCS Middle School Science is a standards and inquiry-based program comprised of four units: Earth/Space Science, Life Science, Physical Science, and Science and Society. The curriculum is available free online for teachers.
Videos of science classrooms provide opportunities for a rich analysis of classroom instruction, teacher moves, and student thinking. BSCS Videoverse takes you inside classrooms with a growing collection of 2-20 minute video clips spanning a variety of topics. Many videos also come with associated resources, including transcripts with context for the video content, lesson plans, student handouts, and other teaching materials.
In this video, first-grade students use a variety of sound makers to make noise (e.g.; clucker, voices, and tuning fork) and look for evidence that something is vibrating to make a sound. [6:07]
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Hero Elementary.
A collection of five interactive activities and labs to help young learners understand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts while also actively experiencing the engineering design process. This resource includes both educator and family guides, materials lists, and extension activities. Activities include an introduction to scientists, engineering, and the design process; designing an oven; ice cream and slime; movement; and growing a plant.
A collection of six interactive activities and labs to help young learners understand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts while also actively experiencing the engineering design process. This resource includes both educator and family guides, materials lists, and extension activities. Activities include an introduction to scientists, engineering, and the design process; airplane flight; meteorologists; safe travelling; building a bird nest; and fossil hunting.
A collection of five interactive activities and labs to help young learners understand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts while also actively experiencing the engineering design process. This resource includes an educator guide, materials list, and extension activities. Activities include an introduction to the engineering design process; magnetic energy; states of matter life cycle; and genetics.
A collection of four interactive activities and labs to help young learners understand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts while also actively experiencing the engineering design process. This resource includes an educator guide, materials list, and extension activities. Activities include an introduction to the engineering design process; matter and its interactions; energy conversions; roller coaster design; building a pizza oven; and weathering and erosion.
A collection of four interactive activities and labs to help young learners understand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts while also actively experiencing the engineering design process. This resource includes an educator guide, materials list, and extension activities. Activities include an introduction to the engineering design process; egg drop engineering; creating a periscope; ecosystems; plant structures and processes; and astronomy.
A collection of seven interactive activities and labs to help young learners understand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts while also actively experiencing the engineering design process. This resource includes an educator guide, materials list, and extension activities. Activities include an introduction to the engineering design process; asteroid impact; density; variables; and physical science.
A collection of six interactive activities and labs to help young learners understand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts while also actively experiencing the engineering design process. This resource includes both educator and family guides, materials lists, and extension activities. Activities include an introduction to scientists, engineering, and the design process; portable weather stations; shadow puppets; the Three Little Pigs; musical instruments; and designing a bird feeder.
This video segment from Wild TV takes a closer look at backyard bugs, their habitat and characteristics. [2:48]
This lesson uses centers to reinforce the five senses incorporating backyard science in the wonderful world of nature.
Students use their senses to describe what the weather is doing and predict what it might do next. After gaining a basic understanding of weather patterns, students act as state park engineers and design/build "backyard weather stations" to gather data to make actual weather forecasts.
Students are introduced to the concept of engineering biological organisms and studying their growth to be able to identify periods of fast and slow growth. They learn that bacteria are found everywhere, including on the surfaces of our hands. Student groups study three different conditions under which bacteria are found and compare the growth of the individual bacteria from each source. In addition to monitoring the quantity of bacteria from differ conditions, they record the growth of bacteria over time, which is an excellent tool to study binary fission and the reproduction of unicellular organisms.
In this inquiry activity, students generate investigable questions to explore the link between hygiene/cleanliness and bacteria growth/population. The students will present their conclusions, and video clips containing additional information will be discussed.
Students construct paper recombinant plasmids to simulate the methods genetic engineers use to create modified bacteria. They learn what role enzymes, DNA and genes play in the modification of organisms. For the particular model they work on, they isolate a mammal insulin gene and combine it with a bacteria's gene sequence (plasmid DNA) for production of the protein insulin.
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students tabulate and graph data on bacteria density vs. time for a culture. Data start with innoculation and progress through the peak and decline.
This animation describes how bacteria are cultured in the lab and the different phases of bacterial growth, including lag, log, stationary and death.
In deze simulatie oefent u met het transformeren van bacteriële cellen met
een recombinant plasmide door middel van een hitteshock.