Teaching Activities

Youth and Law part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Putting Sustainability into Action workshop:Activities
Carla Lippett, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Students, faculty, staff, and other community volunteers will collaborate in groups with the delivery of a Law-Related Education (LRE)program that goes beyond questions about who, what, when, and where. LRE helps ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Using Field Observations and Field Experiences to Teach GeoscienceAn Illustrated Community Discussion part of Geoscience in the Field:Field Experiences:Posters
Heather Cunningham, Kent State University-Tuscarawas Regional Campus
Students use compasses and a map of campus to navigate and find orienteering markers. This lab helps to reinforce map navigation skills. Students enjoyed the activity.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), Middle - 7, Middle - 8, Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2), Middle (6-8):Middle - 6
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity:Field laboratories
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

2-Day Investigating Soil Samples: observing and identifying soils part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Debra Ose Northside Elementary Benson, Minnesota Originally created
This activity is designed for a primary classroom (outdoors & indoors) investigation where students collect and investigate soil samples and describe the soils, looking for similarities and differences. Students develop a method of recording the data colleted and can present the information gathered.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience, Soils

What sizes are the planets and how do they move around the sun? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Akbar Rasheed Muhammad Saint Paul Academy and Summit School Saint Paul, MN 55104 Based on original activity from Sally Spooner, Sunset Elementary School, Cody, Wyoming
This is an activity to help students understand the abstract concept about how planets move around the sun and their relative size compared with other planets in the solar system.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science

Identifying the sun as a source of light by observing shadows. part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Peggy Greenwaldt Cyrus Elementary School Cyrus, MN 56323
This activity is a kindergarten field and classroom investigation where students make observations, collect data and share conclusions that shows they understand that the sun is a source of light.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience

How does weather change? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Susan Anderson, Taylors Falls Elementary, Taylors Falls, MN based on an activity from Houghton Mifflin Science Grade 2 Weather Patterns, p. D6.
This activity is a field investigation where students gather temperature and weather data in the a.m and p.m. and develop a new, experimental question to predict temperature over the course of the year.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology

Observational Skills: Observing and creating sketches of an outdoor environment part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Daryl ("Tish") Monjeau Bancroft Elementary School Mpls., MN
In this series of activities, students observe and sketch the environment outside their school using their senses. Students create a classroom book using one of their sketches.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science

Classroom Phenology: Using the Environment as a Source of Data and Observations part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Carrie Otis Minnesota Internship Center English Language Academy Minneapolis, Minnesota
This activity is a classroom and schoolyard investigation where students collect daily temperature and precipitation readings, weather observations, and weekly phenology reports in a phenology binder and in nature journals. Students then analyze this data and compare to recorded values in the Weatherguide calendar.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology, Mathematics, Biology

Backyard Science...The Five Senses part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Dawn Marie Penning, Century Elementary, Park Rapids, MN, based on activities found in the Mailbox Companion, p.10.
This lesson uses centers to reinforce the five senses incorporating backyard science in the wonderful world of nature.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science

What Is Water? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Cristy Rajdl Holy Family School Sauk Centre, MN
What Is Water? is an introductory lesson that introduces students to the properties of water and its presents in the environment.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Socratic Questioning
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience