Science

100 lessons found.

“Weather” you know or not…. Classroom temperature is a hot topic!

This lesson merges weather, microbit, programming and social impact. Does the temperature of a classroom matter? Yes! In …

Tracey Winey 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
micro:bit

“White Energy Journey”

Students will work independently to design a ‘driving base’ using the SPIKE PRIME LEGO sets. Upon completion of the base …

Alicia Vonberg 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience +1
Data CollectionProject-BasedRobotics

5 Senses

Students will learn about the 5 senses as a whole then learn about each individual sense and complete science activities …

Sandra Joslin K-2 Computer ScienceReading/Language ArtsScience

Algorithms Unplugged

students will be learning how to create an algorithm/sequence by giving set directions to their 'bot' (another student) …

Kara Bowcutt K-23-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +1
Unpluggedmicro:bit

Analog and Digital Signals Project

This is a project for students to experience the differences between analog and digital waves. Students will be …

Sara Percy 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
micro:bit

CODIS & Forensic Science

Students will work together as forensic scientists to solve the crime of “Who broke into our school and stole all the …

Alicia Vonberg 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collection

CODIS & Forensic Science

Students will work together (in teams of 4) as forensic scientists to solve the crime of “Who broke into our school and …

Alicia Vonberg 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience
Data CollectionUnplugged

Creepy Carrots

Stem activity for 5-year olds. Students will work cooperatively to construct a structure using a variety of items.

Jeanie Sanders K-2 MathematicsReading/Language ArtsScience
Data CollectionProject-Based

Critical Infrastructure 1

Students will be able to explain what Critical Infrastructure is, what are common components that belong to critical …

Timothy Grier 9-12 CybersecurityScience
CybersecurityGenCybermicro:bit

Critical Infrastructure 2

Students will be able to demonstrate foundational knowledge and skills that are related to cybersecurity

Timothy Grier 9-12 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience +2
CybersecurityGenCybermicro:bit

Cybersecurity Career Poster Project

Students will design a poster project detailing an individual cybersecurity career. The poster project will include …

Jana Simmerly 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience
CybersecurityData CollectionGenCyber

Data: Patterns, Cause and Effect

Students will discover, explore, model and communicate patterns found within data. This lesson/activity will incorporate …

Kendrea Herring 3-5 ArtComputer ScienceMathematics +1
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Denial of Service Attack

Students will model one type of attack (a denial-of-service attack) and figure out how to protect the network against it …

Jumoke Adebimpe 9-12 CybersecurityScienceTechnology
CybersecurityGenCyber

Digital and Analog Activity Project

This is a project for students to experience the differences between analog and digital waves. Students will be …

Sara Percy 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
micro:bit

Do you want to build a robot

Students will learn about robots, how to program a microbit and create a microbit pet.

Sandra Joslin 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +1
Data CollectionProject-BasedRoboticsmicro:bit

E is for Erosion, C is for Cybersecurity

Students will learn the effects of wind and water erosion. They will create their own landscape to show how water …

Katie Cline 3-5 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
CybersecurityProject-Based

E' is for Erosion

Students will learn the effects of wind and water erosion. They will create their own landscape to show how water …

Katie Cline 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience +1
Cybersecurity

Egg Drop

Using the MicroBit students will make a safe container for an egg drop. Instead of an egg, the students will be using …

Becki Butterfield 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Egg Drop Experiment using Microbit

Students will investigate and design an experiment that explores Newton’s 2nd Law, momentum and impulse using a …

Samantha Schwessinger 9-12 Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematics +2
micro:bit

Encrypted Messages to Mars

"The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is an international network of antennas that provide the communication links between …

Jesica Jones-Saka 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
CybersecurityGenCyberUnpluggedmicro:bit

Evolution of the Telephone

Students spend several periods looking at the development of communication over the past 200 years.

Victoria Davis K-23-5 Computer ScienceScienceSocial Studies +1
micro:bit

Exploration with Tetrix

Tetrix: In this lesson students will sort/ organize the school's Tetrix sets to ensure each set is complete. After …

Melissa Harris 3-56-8 ArtComputer ScienceEngineering +3
Robotics

Exploring Potential and Kinetic Energy by Using Hot Wheels and Micro:bits

Students will be exploring potential and kinetic energy (how mass and velocity changes KE, when does an object have the …

Noel Davis 6-89-12 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
Code.orgData Collectionmicro:bit

Exploring the importance of Cyber Security and how it relates to Agriculture Technologies - Part 1

Students will understand the importance of cybersecurity in agricultural technologies. Students will explore the …

Jessica Pastran 9-12 CybersecurityScience
CybersecurityGenCyber

Exploring the importance of Cyber Security and how it relates to Agriculture Technologies - Part 2

Students will understand the importance of cybersecurity in agricultural technologies. Students will explore the …

Jessica Pastran 9-12 CybersecurityScience
CybersecurityGenCyber

Factors and Hazards (Part One)

In this activity, students explore the three factors that affect weather: precipitation, temperature, and wind. Students …

Tara Taliaferro 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +1
Data CollectionWeb Design

Fat Bear Fishing

My 5/6 grade class will use micro:bits to design a predator/prey program on micro:bits that assigns each device a fish …

Jennifer LaVanchy K-26-8 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
Data CollectionGame-Basedmicro:bit

Geocaching with Microbits

Geodynamics powers the Earth’s magnetic field, which is magnetic north. There is also a true north which is the Earth’s …

Samantha Schwessinger 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringReading/Language Arts +2
micro:bit

Getting Active with Microbit

They are introduced to variables and develop their understanding through a mixture of unplugged and practical …

Connie Hollin 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience +1
Unpluggedmicro:bit

GIS Watershed Information

Students use GIS online software to analyze local watersheds and draw conclusions about earth changes over time and …

Victoria L Davis 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
Data Collection

Half Life Radioactive Decay with Micro:bits

Introduce basic programming of the micro:bit while reiterating the integration of math in physical science exploring …

Clint Chandler 9-12 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience
micro:bit

Health Care Devices

In this lesson students are reminded about the ever growing uses of technology devices within the healthcare profession, …

Sarah Jarvis 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
micro:bit

Health Care Devices

In this lesson students are reminded about the ever growing uses of technology devices within the healthcare profession, …

Sarah Jarvis 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
micro:bit

HexBug Mazes

In this lesson/activity students will learn about who Margaret Hamilton is and what she did for NASA. Students will be …

Kalista Pendleton 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience +2
Project-BasedRobotics

Hour of Code introduction/ Ecosystems

this will be an introduction to coding using Hour of Code, as a refresher/ attention grabber right after Christmas …

Brenna Franklin 6-8 Science
Code.orgData Collection

How Plants Grow : Grow a Digital Garden

Students will be able to use the Scratch Jr. programming blocks to make animated stories and interactive projects that …

Jenifer Albrandt K-2 Computer ScienceScience
RoboticsScratchUnplugged

I Am a Weather Watcher

Students will become weather watchers. They will journal the weather everyday and document the temperature using the …

Sarah McKenzie K-2 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
Data Collectionmicro:bit

I Can Create a Thermometer

Students will be able to experiment with micro-bits. Then students will be able to create the code for taking a …

Sarah McKenzie K-2 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Integrity and Keep It Simple

The purpose for this lesson is to help you understand the notions or aspects of integrity and the simplicity with which …

Judes Francois 3-56-8 CybersecurityScienceSocial Studies +1
CybersecurityGenCyber

Intro to Cybersecurity HAND Concepts Part 2

This lesson will take two days to go over the 6 parts of the hand in relation to cybersecurity. We will do a general …

Ashley Gecewicz 9-12 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
CybersecurityGenCybermicro:bit

Intro to Problem Solving

This lesson is a fun introduction to the open-ended, collaborative, and creative problem solving students will be using …

Autumn Spiva 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringReading/Language Arts +1
Data CollectionProject-Based

Introduction to Cybersecurity Hand Concepts

This lesson will take two days to go over the 6 parts of the hand in relation to cybersecurity. We will do a general …

Ashley Gecewicz 9-12 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +2
CybersecurityGenCyber

Is data for the Birds?

Students will program a Micro:bit and as a species counter, and to log the data that is collected. Then they will …

Jeff Kitterman 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Is Data for the Birds?

Use the micro:bit as a step counter to measure and mark the planets' relative distances from the Sun.

Jeff Kitterman 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Lesson 8: How does a cup’s surface affect how light warms up a liquid inside the cup?

This is modified from OpenSciEd under the Creative Common 4.0 License. We carry out an investigation to test the …

Abby Slavens 6-89-12 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Lesson Plan 2-First LEGO ® League “White Energy Journey”

Students will work independently to design a ‘driving base’ using the SPIKE PRIME LEGO sets. Upon completion of the base …

Alicia Vonberg 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematics +2
Project-BasedRobotics

Life Sciences Through micro:bits

Students will participate in a discussion post regarding confidentiality on Canvas. “What do you think confidentiality …

Sebastian Herrera 9-12 CybersecurityScience
CybersecurityData CollectionGenCybermicro:bit

Making a Pepper’s Ghost Illusion using Microbit Technology

This lesson is going to be a supplemental lesson to our OpenSciEd Light and Matter unit that we are implementing this …

Morgan Krysl 6-8 Science
micro:bit

Micro:bit Temperature Reading

Students will program micro:bits to measure temperature readings in Celsius and then convert to Fahrenheit either using …

Casey Harmon 6-8 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Micro:bits on the Fly with Lego Cars

Students will explore how sensors are used in our lives and what they could measure. Students will build a Lego car and …

Julie Snyder 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
Data CollectionProject-Basedmicro:bit

Microbial Computer

Students will play Conways Game of Life after studying microbial behavior. Students will use The game of life to …

Garrid Halsey 6-8 ArtComputer ScienceScience +1
Game-Basedmicro:bit

Microbit compass

THIS A DRAFT-Student will program a microbit that locate magnetic north, south, east and west. They will create …

Samantha Schwessinger 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematics +3
micro:bit

MicroBit Guitar

Students will use a combination of block coding (Scratch) and physical computing (MicroBit) to create a cardboard …

Victoria L Davis 3-56-8 Computer ScienceScience
Scratchmicro:bit

MicroBit Guitars

Students will create a 'guitar' from cardboard, aluminum foil, and a micro:bit and explain how energy is converted from …

Victoria L Davis 3-56-8 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
Scratchmicro:bit

Microbit programming

Creating a program for their microbit 'pets'. Their program must include noise, pictures and words/phrases

Sandra Joslin 3-5 ArtComputer ScienceEngineering +3
Roboticsmicro:bit

Miscommunication in Communication

For the Nature of Science students are practicing going through steps in scientific inquiry. Students need to …

Jesica Jones-Saka 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
CybersecurityGenCybermicro:bit

Modeling Plate Motions using Microbit Technology

This lesson is going to be a supplemental lesson to our OpenSciEd Plate Tectonics unit that we are implementing this …

Morgan Krysl 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience +1
micro:bit

Modeling the Phases of the Moon

In this lesson, students are introduced to computer science through the use of Micro:bits to create a model of the lunar …

Crystal Seeley 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
micro:bit

Modeling the Solar System with a Micro:bit

Use the micro:bit to create a kinesthetic model of the solar system. Students will be given an example at the beginning …

Victoria L Davis 6-8 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience
Data CollectionUnpluggedmicro:bit

Modeling the Solar System with a microbit

Use the micro:bit to create a kinesthetic model of the solar system. Students will be given an example at the beginning …

Victoria L Davis 6-8 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience
Data CollectionUnpluggedmicro:bit

Nature of Science & Life Science / micro:bits

Students will participate in a discussion post regarding confidentiality on Canvas. “What do you think confidentiality …

Sebastian Herrera 9-12 CybersecurityScience
CybersecurityData CollectionGenCybermicro:bit

Penguin Lab

Students will construct an penguin home to prevent the phase change of an Ice-Cube Penguin. Students will code 2 …

Sara Percy 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
micro:bit

Phase Change Lab (Temperature and Particle Movement)

The goal of this lesson is to recognize the relationship of thermal energy and temperature. As thermal energy of water …

Crystal Seeley 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Plant Growth Experiment with Micro:bits

Students will plan an investigation into what plants need in order to grow. Students will measure the height of their …

Sara Percy 6-8 Computer ScienceScienceTechnology
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Plant Growth Lab

Students will plan an investigation into what plants need in order to grow. Students will measure the height of their …

Sara Percy 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Power walkers

Students will program a mirco: bit to count steps while walking and then while power walking. They will compare the two …

Casey Harmon 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Radio Kindness

Sharing and receiving kindness is a good way to support your well-being and that of your friends. In this activity you …

Anita Tope K-23-5 Computer ScienceScienceSocial Studies +2
micro:bit

Robotics for Students in the Functional Life Skills (FLS) Program

As the library exists to offer an inclusive space for everyone, this lesson is geared toward giving students with …

Devin Hodgins 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematics +2
Data CollectionRobotics

Scientific Technologies

Students research a field of science that interests them and the technologies that are used to solve-problems in that …

Amanda Katelyn Carson K-23-56-8 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Security Risks & Consequences

This lesson can be done either in person OR virtually. Students will work individually and in groups to determine how …

Alicia Vonberg 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience +1
Cybersecurity

Sound Wave Basics with micro:bits

This lesson uses MakeCode and micro:bit to analyze sound waves. Students will learn how frequency and volume affect the …

Jana Simmerly 6-8 CybersecurityScience
CybersecurityGenCybermicro:bit

Stepping through the Universe with the Micro:bit

Using Astronomical Units, students will program and use a Micro:bit to measure the AU distances to the scale of their …

Jeff Kitterman 6-8 Computer ScienceScience
micro:bit

Storm is Coming

Students are getting ready to make make observations about the weather for the next two weeks. To help with the …

Julie L. Calkins K-2 Computer ScienceScience
Robotics

Stormy Skies (Part Two)

This lesson continues with the next section of Mystery Science: Grade 3 Water Cycle & Phases of Matter: Local Weather …

Melissa Skinner 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +1
Data Collection

Stormy Skies: Why are some places always hot?

In this lesson, students are introduced to the concept of “climate” and explore the world’s five major climates. In the …

Melissa Skinner 3-5 ArtComputer ScienceReading/Language Arts +1
Data Collection

Sunlight Sensor

Turn your micro:bit into a light sensor! Using the light level sensor feature of the micro:bit, students will program …

Anita Tope 3-5 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Surprise! We get to have new Pets!

This is an opportunity for students to learn more about coding through creating a micro:pet with a partner, It will …

Phaedra Davila K-23-5 ArtComputer ScienceScience +1
CybersecurityGenCybermicro:bit

Svalbaroi Water - The World's Most Expensive Water

Using the Svalbarði Water - The most expensive water in the world as a hook, students will produce a computational …

Julie L. Calkins 3-5 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collection

Terrific Temperatures

This lesson is part of a larger unit by PhD science that explores weather and climate. This lesson is the beginning of a …

Crystal Graf 3-5 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collection

The Glaciers Are Shrinking?!

Using data gained from an article and a simulation, students will determine whether or not the Glaciers of Glacier …

Julie L. Calkins 3-5 Computer ScienceScience
Data Collection

The Problem with Plastics

3rd grade learns about Jacques Cousteau and his conservation efforts to clean up the ocean. Plastic waste has become a …

Kathy Manker 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +2
Data Collection

Use Micro:bit to Gather Temperature Data

This lesson is a part of a multi-day project where students build a small structure designed to interfere with thermal …

Amber Martines 6-8 Science
Data CollectionProject-Basedmicro:bit

Using Microbits to help Students to Visualize the Stages of Mitosis

Using Microbits to help students visualize the stages of Mitosis lesson can be used after the concept of Mitosis has …

Samantha Schwessinger 9-12 Science
micro:bit

Using Microbits to measure conductivity of metallic, ionic and covalent bonds.

• Observe the conductivity strength between different types of bonds, metallic, ionic and covalent. • …

Samantha Schwessinger 9-12 Computer ScienceReading/Language ArtsScience
micro:bit

Using Microbits to measure light level of sunlight for optimal plant growth

Students will investigate and design an experiment that explores the natural world using microprocessors. They will …

Samantha Schwessinger 6-8 Career and Technical EducationComputer ScienceEngineering +4
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Virtual Pet

Students will create a virtual pet using micro:bits and then collect data for their pet as it interacts with its …

Anita Tope 3-5 ArtComputer ScienceEngineering +3
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Volcano Animation

Students use flowcharts and repetition to explore building a volcanic eruption on a Micro:Bit.

Becki Butterfield 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematics +4
Data CollectionUnpluggedmicro:bit

Volcano interactions with Earth's Spheres

In this lesson students will use the microbit to develop volcanic eruptions.

Mandy M Sewell 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringReading/Language Arts +2
micro:bit

Wax Museum Part 1

In this lesson series, students will research ways that technology has impacted the world. They can choose to research …

Taylor Wailes-Putnam 3-5 Computer ScienceReading/Language ArtsScience +1
Unplugged

Wax Museum Technology Part 1

In this lesson series, students will research ways that technology has impacted the world. They can choose to research …

Taylor Wailes-Putnam 3-5 ArtComputer ScienceEngineering +6
Unplugged

Weather Factors

In this activity, students explore the three factors that affect weather: precipitation, temperature, and wind. Students …

Tara Taliaferro 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +1
Data Collection

Weather Station

In this activity, students develop a 'weather station' where they collect at least three types of weather data.

Victoria L Davis 6-8 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience +1
Data CollectionProject-Basedmicro:bit

Weather: Factors and Hazards (Part Three)

In this activity, students use the scientific inquiry process to investigate the effect of water on Earth materials. …

Tara Taliaferro 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringScience
Data Collection

Weather: Factors and Hazards (Part Two)

In this activity, students continue their exploration of weather. They learn about two new weather tools- a wind sock …

Tara Taliaferro 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematics +1
Data Collection

What are Rainbows?

When it rains, it causes a phenomenon known as a rainbow. The rainbow is a simple construction because it only uses …

Madilynne Nading K-2 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience
Unplugged

What's the 'W' word in Wyoming?

Students will build an anemometer to measure the wind and predict weather patterns in Wyoming.

Katie Cline 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematics +2
Data Collection

What's the 'W' Word in Wyoming?

Students are going to build their own anemometer to check the wind speeds in their hometown. They are going to use their …

Katie Cline 3-5 Computer ScienceEngineeringMathematics +1
Data Collection

What’s the Weather

Micro bit will project temp - students will graph the data accordingly Arduino will be set up as a weather station

Tesha Frederick K-23-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +2
Data Collectionmicro:bit

What’s the Weather ?

START HERE - get excited about weather!

Tesha Frederick K-2 Computer ScienceMathematicsScience +1
Data Collectionmicro:bit

Where do clouds come from?

Students will begin with background knowledge of reading materials about water and clouds. Students will then review …

Melissa Skinner 3-5 Computer ScienceMathematicsReading/Language Arts +1
Data Collection