1 Putting the Ice in Hockey Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This best practice lesson has students explore what happens at the surface of ice to give it its slippery nature. In order to effectively complete this lesson, students must already know that molecular motion changes based on temperature which ultimately affects the state of matter.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson students explore chemical change. Students combine calcium chloride, baking soda, water, and an acid indicator in a Ziploc bag and observe what happens.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Using this resource, students understand that particle movement changes as a substance changes from one phase to another phase. This lesson is designed to give students the opportunity to observe a phenomenon created by particle movement.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First 4 Temperature Changes Everything Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This resource is designed to help students determine the effect of temperature on the motion of particles. The primary purpose of these activities is to introduce the students to the concept that temperature causes molecules and atoms to move faster and farther apart, which in turn causes the change from solid to liquid, and liquid to gas.... 5 How does an Airplane Fly? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson, students conduct an extended experiment in which they change and test different flight conditions. By working in pairs or small groups, they will better understand how research teams of engineers and scientists must work together cooperatively to complete large projects.... Career Fields: Engineering & Science Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 6 Simple Thermodynamics of Transportation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Students explore energy transformations and are introduced to the laws of thermodynamics in this series of three lessons. In each lesson students watch a video (available and viewable online) about a different mode of transportation and examine the energy transformations that occur in each.... Projects: COR 7 Why does an ice cube float in water and not sink? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this experiment students calculate the density of water and ice. Teachers may want to review some concepts of mass, volume, and density before beginning.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies Projects: COR, Standards First 8 Ships 2: What Floats Your Boat? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This best practice lesson is designed to allow students to extend their understanding of floating, sinking, density, and buoyancy and apply it to the design and testing of ships. Students learn about load lines and cargo as they construct ships and then test the ship's performance under different conditions.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this promising practice lesson is to introduce students to energy through the idea of energy transformations and conversions, and to develop students' ideas of what energy is and how it can be measured. This investigation could be the beginning of a unit on energy.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students explore Bernoulli's Principle and relate what they have learned to the principles of flight. The lesson involves an opening discussion, three student activities, a whole class demonstration, and a closing discussion.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First |