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Science Lesson Plans
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| A Tour through the Circulatory System |
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| Students will use Microsoft Publisher (or other available software) to create a brochure tracing the path blood flows through the body. Working in cooperative groups, students will use creative writing skills to create a "travel" brochure written from the viewpoint of a drop of blood. Using the Internet, students will download pictures/graphics and insert them into their brochures. - Tupelo Middle School |
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| Across Five Aprils—Civil War Battlefield Landforms |
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| Students will research various Civil War battles. The students will choose two battles in which local landforms played a key role either as key offensive or defensive positions desired by one or both sides. The students will determine how the landforms might have played a significant role in the outcomes of the battles. Students will create Microsoft PowerPoint presentations depicting the battles and containing at least one illustration/picture of each battle and landform. Pictures/illustrations will be created using a draw/paint program, drawn using traditional media and scanned into digital format, scanned from print materials or downloaded from the World Wide Web. This lesson can be used in conjunction with the following C·R·E·A·T·E for Mississippi lessons in a cross-curricular unit:
- Tupelo Middle School |
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| Advertising an Element |
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| Students have learned about atoms and elements and that the elements are organized by their chemical properties into a Periodic Table. In this activity, the student will use Microsoft Publisher or other publishing program to design a six-sided brochure to advertise their element of choice. - Booneville Middle School |
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| Animal Classification |
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| The students will research assigned animals to find out if they are producers, consumers, or decomposers. The students will write a report on their animals and work in groups to construct a food chain. The students will use a digital camera to take pictures of each other to put on the face of the animal of their choice in the food chain. The students will combine food chains to make a class food web. - William J. Berry Elementary |
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| Build a Genetic Concept Map |
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| This lesson is designed to be used for reinforcement after teaching a unit on genetics. The lesson reviews the genetic terms related to traits including genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous, recessive, and dominant. Using Microsoft PowerPoint, the students will create concept maps that show the relationships among these basic genetic terms using specific examples related to both human beings and plant life. - Coleman Middle School |
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| Communication: Do You Hear What I See? |
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| As an introductory lesson to space travel, the teacher will introduce the students to the complexities of communicating through space using an experiment in communication. Role-playing as flight controllers and astronauts, students will attempt to replicate drawings using a draw/paint software program such as Microsoft Paint. Through this experiment, students will learn how hard it is to communicate clearly with people. - Winona Jr. High School |
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| Creating an Isobar Map |
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| Using the videotaped instructions and map handout, teachers will work with students to draw and read an isobar map. - Winona Jr. High School |
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| Creating Weather Maps |
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| The purpose of this activity is to show students how temperatures across the United States vary. This fact may lead to additional discussion about the many factors that cause temperature variations to occur. Using technology, these factors can easily and quickly be addressed by the teacher and investigated by the students. Newspapers were the only source of weather and weather related information for the public well into the twentieth century. The development of technology has changed but not decreased the use of newspapers. People still use newspapers today to check weather conditions. USA Today contains a color-coded weather map that illustrates temperature changes across the U.S. Students will be asked to produce a similar temperature map to this in order to help students see temperature changes across a wide area. That information will lead to other investigations about why these temperature changes happen. Students will also be asked to use technology in order to find, print, and produce a color-coded weather map. - Winona Jr. High School |
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| Death and the Civil War |
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| Students will review the different diseases that confront soldiers during the Civil War, which were often more threatening than the enemy. Students will research different diseases and use word-processing software to create reports about the diseases. Students will access a chart showing the number of Civil War deaths by state on the World Wide Web. They will interpret information and answer questions about the information shown on the chart. - Booneville Middle School |
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| Design for Flight |
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| Students will research aerodynamics using Web sites provided by the teacher. Working in groups, the students will design paper airplanes, test them, and choose a final plane to fly against the other groups. The students will graph flight results using a spreadsheet program. - William J. Berry Elementary |
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| Digital Directory of Atoms |
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| Students will design a schematic model of an atom and identify the parts and their functions. - Chambers Middle School |
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| Earthquakes: Shake, Rattle, and Roll |
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| In this lesson students will research, analyze, and present information about earthquakes including their causes, effects, location, and safety do’s and don’ts. This information will be gathered from World Wide Web resources and presented in the form of a tri-fold brochure. - New Hope Middle School |
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| Endangered Species Coloring Book Project |
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| This lesson will be conducted concurrently in the students’ Language Arts and Science classes. Students will research a selected endangered species in science class using World Wide Web resources. After studying a variety of poetry types and techniques in English class, students will incorporate what they have learned and write poetry about their endangered animal. The pictures and poems will be collected, printed, combined, and collated to form a coloring book that will be disseminated to elementary school students. - Booneville Middle School |
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| Environmental Concerns |
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| Students will conduct research about a chosen environmental concern using the World Wide Web. After all research is complete, students will create an informational flyer about the environmental concern they have chosen using desktop-publishing software such as Microsoft Publisher. Students will insert pictures or clip art into flyers as visual aids. Images taken from the World Wide Web will be used under the Fair Use guidelines of the United States Copyright Laws.
- Tupelo Middle School |
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| Fabulous Fossils |
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| Students will investigate fossils and how they are formed through viewing photographs of actual fossils on the World Wide Web. Discussion on how scientists determine the appearance of ancient plants, animals, and other objects based on fossil findings will ensue. Students will work in groups to make fossils and will have other students and teachers attempt to identify what object left a particular imprint. Using information gathered from this exercise, students will make a spreadsheet from which they will construct a chart that displays the collected data. - Hunter Middle School |
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