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General Science Lessons NEW! Pendulums This lesson uses pendulums to show how a true science investigation is supposed to work. Students will investigate pendulums, which in this case is nothing more than a string with a washer on the end. Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Watch video NEW! Cycles- Never-Ending Science The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand that nature uses cycles to move matter in and out of organisms endlessly. This is a lesson all students will enjoy, since they get to cut, color, and glue as they each create a flapbook. Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Watch video Cost Of My Classroom Lights Ready for a practical lesson that will show your students how expensive lights are? In this activity students will begin with a series of calculations to see the hourly cost of one fluorescent light tube. They will multiply that by the number of tubes, then times the number of hours per day they’re on, and again by the number of school days. That final number is the cost of the electricity to power the lights in your classroom per year. Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Watch video Which Tape Is Stickiest? Use this fun activity to teach about constants and variables. It also involves students in creating a line and bar graph. Follow the notes included. Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Watch video NEW! How Many On The Penny? Like simple and engaging lessons? Learn about how science is supposed to work with this fun inquiry lab. Only on video NEW! Twirlybirds Students are mesmerized by a twirling paper bird that also helps them zero in clearly on one single variable. Only on video NEW! Predictions and Hypothesis Finally- a complete untangling of the terms Prediction and Hypothesiss. Only on video NEW! Happy Trails (mix) Ever look at a bag of trail mix and wonder the exact cost by ingredient? In this lesson, students will find the answer to this for their own mixture, and get a very interesting answer. Only on video NEW! Discovering Density Students determine the densities of all kinds of objects made of clay, and discover that all clay has the exact same density. Just for fun, we will hide a steel ball inside one of the objects, which should cause minor panic (we hope). Only on video My New Science Classroom A great way to get students familiar with their new science classroom at the beginning of the school year. Left in original PowerPoint format so you can change the wall positions and object names. Doesn't it feel good to have day one planned? Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Watch video Rounding And Significant Figures A brief set of notes you can use to introduce or review rounding and significant figures. Use the rest of class to work on problems. Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Fact Versus Opinion Want to help students better recognize true from sensational information? Have students check the 17 statements on the handout as either "Fact" or "Opinion". After that, go over the answers with them and they'll be ready to talk about, and take notes on, how to recognize sensational information. Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Watch video 3 Kinds of Graphs Students begin this lesson with a clean sheet of notebook paper and end with the paper, and their minds, now full of information on the 3 main kinds of graphs-line, bar, and circle. Follow the notes included. Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Watch video Converting To Other Units Exactly how many seconds are there until Christmas? It sounds hard, but we’ll warm up with how many seconds are there in a minute, and how many millimeters in a meter. Once you see how those work, the process just repeats. Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint Watch video Science Christmas Show Christmastime is here! So on the last day before Christmas break, instead of throwing a puzzle at your students or putting on a video, why not celebrate by turning one of the most chaotic days of the school year into one of the most memorable? Lesson Notes Get Handout and PowerPoint

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My name is Bill Wilkinson (students just call me "Mr. W") and I love teaching science! In the 16 years I've taught one thing has remained constant- ALL students learn better when their their hands and minds work together. Currently my title is Science Liaison for Vigo County Schools in Terre Haute, Indiana, where I teach daily in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade classrooms in several different middle schools. I am proud to say that every lesson on this site is an original that I really did with real students. Only lessons that achieve a rich balance of natural curiosity, science standards, content, and appeal to all students are good enough for this site.	The Wilkinsons in the Rockies recently-check out the 3,000 year-old pines behind us!

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