Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating electromagnetism. Students will analyze how they can affect the strength of an electromagnet and measure those changes. This is an open inquiry lesson, so rather than giving students a question to investigate, you will facilitate them creating their own testable questions about electromagnet strength and planning their own
Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating the question, What effect does kinetic energy of particles have on the different states of matter in water? Students will use a PhET computer simulation of the States of Matter to learn that as the temperature rises, water changes states. This will likely be students’ first introduction to states
Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating solubility by changing features in the solvent (water temperature), the solute (size of particles), and the environment (shaking the container). Students are required to understand what solubility is and to know vocabulary associated with it, as well as to be familiar with experimentation. This is an open
Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating the chemical property of matter that is characterized by pH – that is, the substances’ level of acidity or basicity. As they learn how to determine pH, students will explore the range of acids and bases in common household substances. Through their investigations, students will gain
Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating projectile motion through catapult construction and manipulation. Independent variables they may choose to explore include: composition of projectiles, size of projectiles, and angle of release. Dependent variables they may choose to measure include trajectory speed and distance. This is an open inquiry lesson, so rather than
Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating the questions, What is the relationship between the slopes of two perpendicular lines?; What is the relationship between the slopes of two parallel lines?; and What is the relationship between the slopes of two intersecting lines that are not perpendicular? Students will take pictures of parallel,
Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating the question, What is the relationship of sum of the addends and their signs? Students will use hands-on manipulatives, including two-colored counters, to add integers with different signs and to begin to discover rules for adding integers. These rules will include adding positive integers, adding negative integers, and
Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating the question, How do a game’s rules affect its fairness? Partners will play the game and record responses. Then they will play and record responses to a modified version of the game that includes a fourth element, Water, in which Water and Rock can each beat
Overview In this inquiry lesson, students will be investigating and analyzing transformations on a coordinate plane. Students are required to know four types of transformations: translation, rotation, reflection, and dilation. Students will use polygon shapes (rectangles, triangles, squares, etc) on a coordinate plane and apply transformations to those shapes. This is an open inquiry lesson,
Overview In this guided inquiry lesson, students will be investigating the question, What are the relationships among the dimensions, volume, and surface area of a rectangular prism? They will model a rectangular prism and change the dimensions to find relationships among its dimensions, volume, and surface area. Download the Volume and Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms lesson