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• Teaching the Difference Between the Left and Right Hemisphere
  Is your class learning about the brain? Then how about teaching them the differences between the left and right brain? This lesson plan describes the difference between the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere, and interactive activities that students can do to learn right brain vs. left brain
• Newton's Laws Teaching Unit: Lessons and Guides to Address All Learning Styles
  Discover a multitude of resources to help you teach Newton's Laws to your science class. As well as quality instruction, you'll find tools for independent study, and other ideas.
• From Macro to Micro: Focusing in on Biology Research Paper Topics
  Focusing in on topics for a research paper in biology can be difficult unless students are assisted with taking current subjects in biology (the macro view) and honing them down to a subtopic that is easy to research and write about (the micro view). Focused topics equal better papers & grades.
• Creating Connections Through Meteorology: Teaching Kids About the Weather
  Weather lessons teach kids about observing meteorological changes. Recording interesting meteorology facts is an outstanding way to connect students to the changes in their world, while introducing other topics that influence or are influenced by the weather.
• Chrysanthemum Lesson Plans: Modeling a Think Aloud
  Primary teachers use read alouds to teach predictions and summarizations. Let's demonstrate how to use the book, "Chrysanthemum", by K. Henkes to model thinking aloud. It's a magnificent book to accompany lessons on cause and effect.
• Building an Eco-column as a Classroom Project
  Students will learn how to make a self-sustaining terrarium-aquarium that the children can use throughout the year to maintain and observe for powerful hands-on science
• LEGO Mindstorms NXT in the Classroom, Session Three: Sensing the World Around You
  A robot, LEGO or otherwise, needs to have knowledge of its surroundings in order to interact with them. Sensors allow robots to reach out and touch someone (or something)!
• Ideas for WebQuests on Soil
  Thinking of a fun and engaging activity to teach the concept of soil to your class? Here is a soil WebQuest that allows students to browse through a number of relevant websites, as well as to interact with each other as they go about the tasks.
• Smart Ways To Use the SMART Board in Science Lessons
  SMART Board technology can be used to make exciting science lessons. This article describes games, pictures and multimedia tools to use the interactive SMART Board in elementary science lessons. These activities and resources are fun and easy to use.