Standard+C+Science+Inquiry

Post Standard C Resources here. Each resource will include a title, link to the resource, a short description of the resource, and grade level(s).

Annie Raffa Standard C–-Science Inquiry Title: Mr. Wizard’s 400 Experiments in Science Link: [|www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/400wizard.pdf] Description: This PDF is an online book that contains 400 of Mr. Wizard’s experiments. In addition to containing experiments with directions and pictures, the book also talks about teaching students how to become experimenters, how to record their observations and how important it is to keep asking questions. Grades: K-8 can be modified for older or younger students

Annie Raffa Standard C – Science Inquiry Title: Manduca (Manduca for teachers) Link: [] Description: This website teachers kids about Manduca, a pest that feeds on tobacco plants. This website contains inquiry based lesson plans – links to “I wonder” questions- as well as pictorial galleries and games for students. This website talks about the anatomy of this insect, its history, growth chart and life cycle. This page contains links to the Wisconsin Model standards as well as National Standards. Grades: K-8 can be modified for older or younger students

Katie Kastenson Schmidt **Standard C ** – Science Inquiry **Title **: A Year of Life Science Labs **Link **: [] **Description **: This pdf document contains 47 different labs that can be classified as science basics, anatomy, genetics, cell structure, and more. The labs contain the materials needed, directions for the activity, and background about the topic. The wiki it is linked to also contains numerous free resources for science teachers at all grade levels. **Grades **: Middle school; several labs could be adapted for elementary school

Tom Barnet Standard C Title: Jason Science: Education Through Exploration Grades: K -12 [|http://www.jason.org] This website is an inquiry based website that allows teachers to share lesson and demonstrate the best way to teach science.

Stephanie Quartana Content Standard Science Standard C - Science Inquiry “Guess My Rule” [|Guess My Rule Activity] This is an activity students can do to create and guess patterns. It starts with a group of objects. One student groups the objects according to a pattern that they make up and another student or students guess what the pattern is. Graderange K-8 (depending on the objects the range is wide)

Michelle L. Miller The Heat Is On!
 * Standard(s):** D.8.8 & C.8.1. & C.8.3.
 * Title:** //The Heat Is On!//
 * Description:** Physical Science Investigation is an interactive website which allows teachers and students to watch experiments and explore concepts, such as the properties of heat, through inquiry based processing methods. The link leads to the teacher resource web page for //The Heat Is On// lesson and videos where students get the opportunity to become engaged by the demonstrations, explore possible answers and reasonings, elaborate on these predictions and answers using experiments, and finally evaluate their conclusions by using summaries, graphs, or other types of data. This website expands on a wide variety of science subjects and would be an excellent tool for a middle school classroom to practice critical thinking about physical science processes and properties. It also provides the teacher with the necessary handouts and worksheets.
 * Grade(s):** 6-8

__**Kayte Cunningham**__ __**Standard C - Science Inquiry**__ Composting: A Science Investigation Grades 2-8 Description: This is a well rounded composting study/lab put together by the California Academy of Sciences. The lesson includes a printable composting workbook, and is designed for inquiry and is very hands-on. There is even a literacy component/tie-in to Shel Silverstein. [|CAS]

__**Libby Dalbec**__ __**Standard C – Science Inquiry**__ Title: PBSkids.org - Science Rocks! Grades: Mid to Upper Elementary Description: PBSkids.org has a plethora of fantastic resources available for teachers and kids alike. The Science Rocks section includes many experiments and activities kids can do on their own. This page details supplies and instructions to build a roller coaster. The experiment includes questions for students to further critical thinking and inquiry such as, What made the roller coaster ball go faster? Students can post their results and designs to the site to share with others. Roller Coaster

Title: “Bubble Town” Grades: K-5, depending on which activity Description: “Bubble Town” is a website dedicated to all things bubbles! On this site, you can find instructions for building a bubble blowing tube, you will learn how to mix amazing bubble solutions, play bubble games and more. For example, under the ‘Bubble Formula’ tab, there are directions on how to create great bubble mixtures. Who knew that aging the solution would have an effect on the size and ‘life’ of the bubble! [|Bubbles]
 * __Sarah Kinney__**
 * __Standard C – Science Inquiry__**

__Pamela Waters__ __Strand C. Science Inquiry__ [|NasaScifiles The case of the mysterious metal] Grades 3-5 This link leads to a collection of videos produced by NASA to promote critical thinking and investigation skills. In each series of videos a group of friends are presented with a mystery (problem or question) they must solve. Explanations are often animated for visual learners. I especially like the animations used after the children learn how GPS works. The process of discovery is well documented throughout each segment. There are 21 science related topics in this series.

Dolores Lease Beaster [|US Geological Survey] Grades K-6 The USGS provides resources for Science education in the subjects of Ecosystems, Geography, Geology, Biology and Water. This link contains information for students and teachers, such as teaching modules, classroom activities and links to other Science resources. There are also guides for citing and crediting USGS materials, which are available at no cost.

Betsy Witthun [|Seashell classification lab activity] Grades 4-8 In this lesson students examine shells and come up with a system of grouping the shells and then a way to classify the groupings. This is a hands-on inquiry based science lab activity. Resources, books, assessment and extension activities are also included.

[the whole “Project Based Learning” website, through the Buck Institute for Education (http://www.bie.org/), is an AMAZING resource for inquiry-based investigations in every content area!] The BIE website for “Project Based Learning” is extraordinarily helpful in terms of steering students’ learning in a direction that is ultimately VERY engaging and applicable to real world uses and solutions. This short video showcases students telling an audience (peers, teachers, adults) about their investigations (so entertaining!), and the accompanying handouts are a great resource to help guide students’ use of presentation time and feedback.
 * Meg Schaaf **
 * [|Explorer Elementary Student Projects] (short video) **
 * [|Presentation Day Checklist][|Presentation Day Feedback] **

Grade(s): elementary, middle and even high school (K-12)

Katrina Kufrin [|Standard C--Science Inquiry] grades K-12 [] Science NetLinks is part of Thinkfinity, a partnership between the Verizon Foundation and 11 premier educational organizations. This site contains many science activities for the K-12 classroom. Each lesson meets at least one national benchmark, witch is listed with the lesson plan. This site also provides a wealth of standards-aligned resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans, interactives and reviewed Internet resources.


 * Brie Gage**
 * Strand C: Science Inquiry**
 * [|The Educator's Reference Desk: Lesson Plans]**
 * Grades: K – 12th**

This website has science lesson plans that you can do with students. The lesson plans are labeled with the appropriate grade, and can be anywhere from kindergarten up to 12th. Several of the lesson plans I looked at had a focus on inquiry and having students ask the questions. In addition, at the top of the page are a bunch of science links, including “Process Skills.” If you click on that link you are led to more science lesson plans, which focus on teaching students such things as observing, investigating, experimenting, and how to use lab equipment.


 * Jason Sailing**

C.4.2 Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations D.4.3. Understand that substances can exist in different states-solid, liquid, gas Grades: K-8 []
 * Investigating Matter through Inquiry**

This book, which can be downloaded as a pdf for FREE, features a number of “investigations” (lesson plans) about physical science and chemistry. I would use Investigation 6 to have students practice using inquiry as well as to explore the three states of matter.


 * Kirstin Kiphardt**
 * Title:** NASA MicroObservatory
 * Introduction:** @http://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/pdf/mObs_intro.pdf
 * Projects & Ideas:** @http://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/projects.html
 * Grades:** 5-12
 * Description:** This website hosts a network of robotic telescopes that allow students to investigate and gather data about the solar system from their classrooms. The students have control of telescopes via internet and may download images for their investigations. Typically the telescope is programmed during the day, the images are taken at night, and the students download their data the next day (I calibrated my telescope yesterday to observe Jupiter and received several images today.)

Standard C K-6 __Science for Fun Experiements__ By Gary Gibson
 * Amanda Nemec**

This book is filled with experiments covering such topics as, sound, light and color, and understanding electricity. I see this book as being a great resource to find engagement activities to start an inquiry based lesson.