Lesson Plans

Biology

Standards Addressed:

Standard 1: Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Laboratory Skills:

• Designs and carries out a controlled, scientific experiment based on biological processes

• States an appropriate hypothesis

• Differentiates between independent and dependent variables

• Identifies the control group and/or controlled variables

• Collects, organizes, and analyzes data, using a computer and/or other laboratory equipment

• Organizes data through the use of data tables and graphs

• Analyzes results from observations/expressed data

• Formulates an appropriate conclusion or generalization from the results of an experiment

• Recognizes assumptions and limitations of the experiment

Physical Education

Standards Addressed:

General Skills:

• Establish and maintain a high level of skilled performance, demonstrate mastery of fundamental movement forms and skills that can contribute to daily living tasks, and analyze skill activities

• Make physical activity an important part of their life and recognize such consequent benefits as self-renewal, greater productivity as a worker, more energy for family activities, and reduction in health care costs

• Use the basic principles of skill analysis to improve previously acquired skills and to continue to learn new skills and activities

Physics

Standards Addressed:

Standard 1: Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Laboratory Skills:

• The central purpose of scientific inquiry is to develop explanations of natural phenomena in a continuing, creative process.

• Beyond the use of reasoning and consensus, scientific inquiry involves the testing of proposed explanations involving the use of conventional techniques and procedures and usually requiring considerable ingenuity.

• The observations made while testing proposed explanations, when analyzed using conventional and invented methods, provide new insights into phenomena.

Earth Science

Standards Addressed:

Standard 1: Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Laboratory Skills:

• Designs and carries out a controlled, scientific experiment based on biological processes

• States an appropriate hypothesis

• Differentiates between independent and dependent variables

• Identifies the control group and/or controlled variables

• Collects, organizes, and analyzes data, using a computer and/or other laboratory equipment

• Organizes data through the use of data tables and graphs

• Analyzes results from observations/expressed data

• Formulates an appropriate conclusion or generalization from the results of an experiment

• Recognizes assumptions and limitations of the experiment