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Collections of Physical Science Lessons
Physical Science Activities
From the California Academy of Sciences.
Physical Science Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans from TeachEngineering.
Physical Science Lessons
Another large collection of lesson plans from
Michigan Reach Out!
PBS Learning Media - Physical Science
Videos and 30 interactive lessons.
Physical Science
Two lesson plans from Education World.
Generation Genius
Many lesson plans, including quite a few for physical science.
Physical
Science Lesson Plans and Activities
From Share
My Lesson.
Physical
Science Activities and Experiments
From Education.com.
Atoms and Molecules
Atoms and
Molecules
A lesson plan for grades 4-6. See also
Atomic Models and Spectra.
Molecules
in Motion
A middle school lesson plan.
Atoms Lesson Plan
A lesson plan "using the 5E method of instruction."
Matter: Atoms and Molecules
A Teacher's Guide for grades 9-12 from Discovery Education.
Making Models: The Atom
An activity-based lesson plan for grades 4-6. For
an excellent introduction
to atoms, see
All
About Atoms.
Molecules Matter
A middle-grade lesson plan.
Atom Lesson Plan
A middle school lesson from Atomic heritage Foundation.
Matter/States of Matter
States
of Matter: Making Ice Cream
A 1st-grade lesson plan.
States of Matter
A lesson plan from Better Lesson.
States of
Matter
A lesson plan from NASA.
Matter
A
6th-grade lesson plan. See also
States of Matter
and
What is Particular Matter?
Is Air Something?
A 3rd-grade unit. Scroll down the page to find the 14
lessons.
States of
Matter: Solids, Liquids,
and Gases
A K-3 lesson plan. See also
Introduction to
Gases.
Density: Sink or Float
for Liquids
A middle-grade lesson plan. See also
Density:
Sink or Float Solids and
Sink or Float?
Density of Liquids
A lesson plan for the elementary grades.
Gravity
Gravity Gets You Down
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery Education. See also
Force Counterforce.
What Is
Gravity?
A 3rd-grade
lesson plan.
Gravity: It's GREEEAAATTT!
Another middle-grade lesson plan. This one is from the
National Teacher
Training Institute.
Understanding Newton's Law of Gravity
One more middle-grade lesson plan.
Understanding Gravity
A lesson plan for grades 3-5. It
includes printable reading
comprehension worksheets.
I'm Falling For You!
A 3rd-grade lesson plan in which students experience gravity just like Galileo
did during his experiments.
Gravity Launch
An elementary-grade lesson plan exploring how the earth’s and moon’s gravity
affects the path of a rocket launched into space.
Newton's
Theory of Universal
Gravitation
A high school lesson plan.
Force and Motion
Rules of Forces and
Motion
A lesson plan for grades K-5 from Discovery Education.
What is Newton's Third Law?
A lesson plan for 6th grade..
Force and Motion
A 3rd-grade lesson plan.
Forces and Motion
A lesson plan for 8th grade.
Motion
in a Circle
A high school lesson plan on Newtonian mechanics
and space flight.
Projectile Motion
A teacher toolkit for high school physics..
Light
Shadows and Light
Many lesson plans from A to Z Teacher
Stuff.
What Is Light?
A primary-grade lesson plan.
Light - Reflection - Illusion
An elementary lesson plan on the
law of reflection. See also
Reflections
Of
for another elementary-grade
lesson plan.
I "Light" What I See
A 3rd-grade unit. See also
Seeing Is (Sometimes) Believing.
How Light
Moves
A lesson plan for grades 4-5.
Light Wave Lesson
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from the National Park Service.
Plane
Mirror Images
A high school lesson plan.
Magnets
Magnets: Fields of Force
A 2nd-grade unit. See also
Marveling in Magnets.
Amazing Magnets!
Another 2nd-grade unit. This one uses experiments
which explore magnetic
force and compass use.
May the Force Be With You
Still another 2nd-grade unit on magnets and magnetism.
Science - 5th Grade
Many lesson plans about magnetism using magnets from the
Utah Education
Network.
Magnetism
A lesson plan for high school students from Discovery
Education. See also
Magnetism Hands-On Activities.
Magnetic
Fields and Bermuda
Triangles
An activity for grades 8-12.
Electricity
Brown Bag Science
A discovery-based elementary lesson plan on electrical
circuits.
Get Charged! Introduction to Electrical Energy
A 4th-grade lesson plan. See
Electricity
101 for an excellent resource.
Static and Current Electricity
Several 5th-grade lesson plans.
Click here for an excellent resource
on static electricity.
Introducing Static Electricity
A lesson plan from Science NetLinks.
Teaching Some Basic Concepts
of Electricity
A middle school unit complete with handouts
Electricity
and Magnetic Fields
A high school lesson plan
from Teach Engineering.
Electricity - Ohm's Law
A high school lesson plan.
Current
Electricity - AC/DC
A lesson plan for grades 5/6. See also
AC/DC: What's the Difference?
Circuits
A 9th-grade lesson plan from Teach Engineering.
What Is Electricity?
A lesson plan for grades 9-10.
Transformers:
More than Meets the Eye
A high school lesson plan.
Lesson Plan: Electromagnetism (age 14-16) - Transformers
From the UK.
Risk
Watch
Electrical Safety Lesson Plans
Lesson plans for all grades 3-4.
Heat
Temperature: Is It Hot or Cold?
A 2nd-grade lesson plan.
Where Does Heat Come From
A 3rd-grade lesson plan. See also
The Heat Is On
for another 3rd-grade lesson plan.
Centigrade
and Fahrenheit:
What's the Difference?
A multi-level, cooperative learning lesson plan
for fifth-grade
science/math.
Heat Moves
A 6th-grade lesson plan.
Problem #4: What is Heat - Heat Vs. Temperature
A lesson plan from the Kenan Fellows Program. See also
Heat Vs. Temperature for an additional lesson plan.
How Does Heat Move? An In troduction to Heat Transfer
A lesson plan from Better Lesson.
Heat, Temperature, and Conduction
A middle school lesson plan.
Ups and Downs of Thermometers
A lesson plan from Middle School Chemistry.
Energy
Alliance to Save Energy
Many activity-based
energy conservation lesson plans.
What is Energy
A 4th-grade lesson plan.
Draft-O-Meter
An esson plan for graes K-4 or
5-8.
Introduction to Energy
A lesson plan for grades 3-5. See also
What Is Potential Energy?
What Are the Forms of Energy?
A middle-grade lesson plan.
We've Got
the Power
A lesson plan for grades
6-8 in which students learn
about different methods of power
production.
Energy
A high school lesson plan
in which students learn about
the concept of energy, energy
conservation, the units of
energy, and the special nature of heat
as the "soft currency" of the energy
world.
Renewable Energy Activities: Choices for Tomorrow
Several lesson plans for the middle grades.
Optimal and Sustainable: Renewable Energy Revamp
A lesson pln for grades 6-10.
Is Solar Power the Future of Energy?
A lesson plan fro grades 9-12 from PBS. See also
Solar Energy Lesson Plan.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Teacher's Lesson Plans
Instructional units and classroom
activities on nuclear energy.
Energy And The City Person
An 8th-grade unit.
Energy in the U.S. WebQuest
Simple Machines
Simple Machines
A lesson plan for grades 3-4.
Engineering: Simple Machines
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 from Teach Engineering.
Simplke Machines on a Great Lake
A lesson plan for grades 3-5.
The
Official Rube Goldberg
Website
Information, biography, gallery, and machine contest.
It's So Simple!
Lesson plan introducing simple machines.
Roto-Copter
Build one out of paper with your elementary class.
Astronomy Lesson Plans and Resources
Astronomy
for Kids
Qizzes, games, facts, projets. images.
Space Science Institute Resources for Educators
Many lesson plans and resources.
The Story Of The Solar System
One elementary lesson plan from Discovery Education.
Selected Topics in Astronomy
and Space Studies
Thirteen middle grade and
high school units from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute.
Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter
Teacher resources including lesson plans from NASA.
Educator's Guide to Moon Phases
Good, concise information from
Views of the Solar System.
See their collection of
lesson plans and activities.
Savage Sun
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery Education. See
also The Energy of
the Sun.
Our Solar Nighborhood from Messenger Education
A few lesson plans organized by grade level.
NASA Solar System Exploration
Use their Fast Lesson Finder to locate NASA approved lesson plans.
See also
Exploring
the Planets.
Best of
the Solar System
A lesson plan for grades 5-8.
The Discovery
of the Solar System
A lesson
plan from NASA in which students
learn about the heliocentric theory
of Copernicus, the ideas behind
it and the explanations which it displaced.
See also Take a Spin through the Solar System.
Mars for Educators
Classroom activities and resources from NASA.
Mars Education
STEM lesson plans from Arizona State University.
Destination
Mars
A lesson plan for
grades 6-8 from the Discovery Education.
Mission to Mars
Ideas
for teaching about Mars from Education
World.
Live From Earth and Mars
Teaching tools, projects, workshop materials, and information.
Surviving and Thriving
on Mars
Activities from NASA.
The
Discovery of Jupiter Radio Waves
Lesson plans from NASA.
Ceres and Pluto:
Dwarf Planets as a New Way of Thinking about and old Solar System
A Teacher Guide and activity from NASA. See also
Pluto's Not a
Planet.
The Impact
of Shoemaker-Levy
9
A unit on the comet that smashed into the planet
Jupiter.
The
Educator's Guide
to the NEAR Project
Information and lesson plans form the NEAR (Near
Earth Asteroid Rendezvous)
Project.
Life in the Universe
(LITU) Curriculum Files
Lesson plans on the possible existence of
extraterrestrial
life.
Exploring Stars
An elementary lesson plan from Discovery Education. See also
Lesson Plan G2 The Stars
and
Constellations.
Build a
Satellite
An classroom activity from NASA.
Make a Moon Crater
Classroom activities from NASA.
Space Adventure
WebQuest
For another
astronomy WebQuest, see
The Ultimate Solar System
Catalog.
Windows
to the Universe
A graphics-intensive space science website with
tons of information
and a teacher/student workbook.
Planets in
Our Solar System
Great source
for pictures of and
information about the planets from NASA.
Hubble
Site
Six activities from NASA.
+
Challenger Center
More space stuff.
Aviation/Aeronautics
(Scroll past the
lesson plans for sites with aviation
information, pictures, and
history)
Mn DOT Aviation Education
Aviation education classroom presentations
and curricula.
The K-8
Aeronautics Internet Textbook
Download a copy in pdf format from NASA.
How Things Fly: Activities
for Teaching Flight
Three lesson plans from the Smithsonian Institute.
The History of Flight and
Some Mathematical Application
A high school unit primarily designed for math,
but parts of it also
seem appropriate for science.
Rockets
A teacher's guide from NASA.
Roto-Copter
Build one out of paper with your elementary class.
How to Build
the World's Best Paper
Airplanes
You be the judge, but that's what the site is called!
Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics
An excellent site with information on how airplanes
fly, why wings
change shape on takeoff and landing,
and propulsion systems.
See How
It Flies
A complete and understandable online aeronautics
text!
How Airplanes
Work
An excellent, well illustrated article from
How Stuff Works.
It not only answers the basic
question of how airplanes
fly, but also describes the
function of wings and the other parts
of an airplane.
How Does a Jet Engine Work?
The basics on jet propulsion from
NASA's Ultra Efficeint Engine
Technologyn Kid's Site.
See their
lesson plans.
Looking for Wright Brothers Lessons?
Five lessons for teaching about
the Wright brothers from Education
World.
Stories of the Wright's Flights
A lesson plan from Smithsonian Education.
See also Wright Brothers National Memorial.
Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight in 1927
A classroom activity from Read-Write-Think. See also
Charles
Lindbergh - Aviation Pioneer Lesson Plan.
The
Dream of Flight
A timeline from the Library of Congress
National
Air and Space Museum
From the Smithsonian Institution.
Airliners.net
Almost 3-million photos!
Chemistry Lesson Plans and Resources
Middle
School Chemistry
Many lesson plans organized by chapter from the
American Chemical
Society. See their
High School Chemistry Education Resources.
SMILE Program Chemistry Lesson Plans
A large number lesson plans, but some dead links.
Acids, Bases, and
Indicators
One high school lesson plan from the above source.
The Science Spot Chemistry
Lesson Plans
Many junior high school lesson plans.
Chemistry
Lesson Plan Menu
Many lesson plans from Columbia
University's Science Teacher Summer Research Program.
Classroom Resources
Search for lesson plans and resources from the
American
Association of Chemistry Teachers.
Chemistry Inquiry
Five free sample lesson plans from the Constructing Chemistry Curriculum.
National Historic Landmarks in Chemistry
Chemistry history lesson plans from the American Chemical Society. See their
other Chemistry Education Resources.
Kitchen Chemistry
A lesson plan from NISE..
The Flavor of Organic Chemistry
A three-part unit introducing students to organic chemistry through the study of
flavor.
The Periodic Table
A high school unit from the AACT.
The Periodic Table
A middle school lesson plan. See also
Ultimate Periodic Table Bingo.
Supernova Chemistry Lesson
Plan
A high school lesson plan from NASA in which students observe
visible spectra
of known elements and identify
an unknown element or combination
of elements by visible spectra.
Acids and Bases
A high school lesson plan. See also
Acid-Base Chemistry Teacher Page and
Determining Acids and Bases.
Corals and Chemistry
A Lesson plan from the EPA.
Physics Lesson Plans and Resources
Physics
Lesson Plans
Several lesson plans from
The Science Spot.
SMILE Program
Physics
Index
A long list of lessons divided into the following
categories: Matter,
Mechanics, Fluids, Electricity
& Magnetism, Waves, Sound
and Optics, and Miscellaneous. There are some
dead links.
High School Physics Lesson Plans
Seven lesson plans from Science Buddies.
Physics and Astronomy Lesson
plans
A long list organized by topic from Rutgers University. See
also
Links to Physics and Astronomy Lesson Plans.
High School
Physics
Lessons
Another long list of high school physics lesson
plans.
High School Physics Lesson Plans
Different from the above site. This page offers 6 lesson plans from
Science Buddies.
eGFI
Engineering-based lesson plans and activities for all grade levels.
The
Engineering Place
Elementary and middle school lesson plans.
STEM Resources Collection
From PBS.
Instructional Materials in Physics and Astronomy
From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Web Physics
A network of resources for introductory physics
teaching.
The Physics Classroom
High school physics
lessons and resources.
Physics Lesson Plan Menu
Lesson plans developed
at the
Columbia University Summer Research
Program for Science Teachers.
Physics Inquiry
Lesson Plans
Three sample lessons as well as skill practice.
Physics Classroom
Resources
From the National Science Foundation.
Physical Science Lesson Plans
From PBS.
Elements of Physics: Energy and Work
A high school lesson plan from Discovery Education. See also
Elements Of Physics: Motion, Force & Gravity
and
Elements of Physics: Matter, for other lesson plans fro Discovery Education.
AP Physics
1 Course Home Page
From AP Central. See also
AP Physics 1: Algebra Based - Course Planning and Pacing Guide.
Amusement
Park Physics Interactive
Information and an online activity exploring the physics
of amusement park rides! See also
Roller Coaster Project Page.