Does anyone know a good web site for science lesson plans for middle school or high school aged students?

Question

I am in a graduate teacher education program. I need some science lesson plans or some science labs. Does anyone know a good web site that has lesson plans on science, please help me out.

Answer 1

brainpop.com

Answer 2

You say that you are "required to teach a lesson" which is different than just being required to design a lesson. Remember that learning doesn't happen in a void. It's very important that you make connections between what you teach in your lesson and what they have already done in class and/or will do in future classes. I'm sure that your education program has repeatedly drilled the importance of starting with the main idea or key concept and working backwards from there, rather than starting with your activity and building from that point. Make connections between your lesson and the curriculum for that grade level. Curricula are different in every state / province, so you'll have to talk to the teacher whose class you'll be working with to find out what the students are / will be working on. Students will get nothing from a random lesson that doesn't seem connected to the other things they've done in class (this can be ESPECIALLY confusing when it's not their regular teacher who is leading the lesson). Give us more information about what the students are doing in their class and we can help you more. It would be insulting to you and your students to just randomly throw out ideas with no further background information. These aren't the days of one-room schoolhouses anymore!

Answer 3

Discovery School has good lessons. Internet 4 Classrooms has lots of good science lab resources. Both are linked below.

Answer 4

NASA has a lot of good stuff, and not just astronomy stuff, either. Just do a search for NASA lesson plans.