High School Science Activities With More Than You Bargained For

When you go through these high school science activities we hope you’re surprised at how much you get. Sure, you expect student handouts and some sort of teacher notes. But what about customized PowerPoints, quizzes and homework assignments, an extra copy of every picture used, and teacher notes with a step-by-step explanation, illustrations, and Accessories that you can customize your high school science activities with? And if you’re not a reader or into all the details, we’ve still got you covered. Just refer to the Quick Notes for a minimal outline of the activity.

Take a minute and download 3 sample activities right now for free to see what we’re talking about. These aren’t necessarily our 3 best (opinion varies from person to person), but they are representative of the rest.

High School Science Activities That Reach Everyone

When you stop and think about it, teaching high school science activities is quite scary. You’re standing in front of 30 students. Some are having a good day, others bad. You have varying attention spans to deal with (thanks in part to video games, television, and cell phones, and sugar). There are high and low achievers- a future ivy league student could be sitting next to a soon-to-be dropout. This realization is sobering and it reminds us who our high school science activities are supposed to serve, and how awesome our task is. And your task is to come up with an activity that will be meaningful to each and every one of these high school science students. Wow! (Don’t think about this too long because it will turn your attitude negative, and you’ll convince yourself that you can’t teach them all).

So how in the world can you make “Plate Tectonics” or “DNA” meaningful to everyone? We think you should begin by putting a good demonstration in their hands, which will pull them all in. The number of high school science students who enjoy doing the demonstrations is about the same as those who enjoy getting presents at Christmas. That leaves a door open for you to follow with a discussion to “hang” ideas and concepts all over that demonstration just like you were hanging ornaments on a Christmas tree.

High School Science Activities- All Fun?

Being interactive in your approach to your high school science activities is important, but we want to do more than just entertain your students. The neat thing that happens after a cool demonstration is that students actually crave a good explanation. That’s why our teacher notes strongly emphasize you being mentally prepared. You should never attempt high school science activities without a clue of what you’re doing that day. If that’s your habit, you might occasionally have a good day of learning, but you and your students are missing out on many more.

Step 1, then, is going in with knowing what you’re doing. And step 2 then would be deciding what kinds of things you’ll say during the activity. If you seldom give thought to your words before an activity, try it and see what happens. Many of our activities include an example back-and-forth dialogue between the teacher and students (based on actual words said when the activity was presented) and other reminders about getting your mind ready. Everyone wants to be part of great high school science activities, but often it’s the unseen work and mental preparation that make it successful.

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