Science Games
Guts and Bolts™: SnapThought Prompts
Posted by SM Bruner on
Have your students signed up for My BrainPOP? If so, they’ll be able to take snapshots during Guts and Bolts game play! MyBrainPOP is available to BrainPOP Educators with 24/7 district- or school-wide...
CSI Flight Adventures: Flight School Assessment Tips
Posted by SM Bruner on
After playing the CSI Flight Adventures game, allow students to print out a record of their flight school exercises and how they did on the flight missions. Have students talk about their results with...
Reach for the Sun Teaching Strategies
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Use these teaching strategies to enhance your students' experience of the Reach for the Sun game: How realistic is the game's representation of being a plant? Encourage students to explore this questi...
CSI Flight Adventures: Flight School Essential Questions
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How can air make an object lift off the ground?
How does the shape of an object help to slow it down as it falls through air?
How does an aircraft overcome its weight and the push of air to lif...
The Fly to Mars Game: Preparing to Play
Posted by Dana Burnell on
Before your students play the Fly to Mars game, allow them to view the Mars movie and then fill out the activity page. You can also use the graphic organizer to compare life on Earth to that on Mars. ...
Guts and Bolts Essential Questions
Posted by SM Bruner on
What are the main functions of the human body's organs?
How can organ systems function interdependently?
What does it mean to test a hypothesis?
These are three essential questions we recomm...
Organs and Body Systems Lesson Plan: The Guts and Bolts Game
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
In this organs and body systems lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 6-8, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the primary functions of various body systems. Students will also explore the...
Virtual Labs Gram Staining Differentiation Strategies
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Provide support to struggling learners by completing the Virtual Labs Gram Staining Slide Prep and (and possibly the Gram Staining) portion of the interactive in a small group setting. This will allow...
Pavlov’s Dog Essential Questions
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How can you determine if evidence is valid and reasonable?
How can you use evidence to solve problems and make decisions?
How can we find out how living things react to different stimul...
Matter Sorter Essential Questions
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What is matter and how does it behave?
How do we know that objects or materials can exist as solids, liquids, or gasses, or plasmas by observing their properties/attributes?
How does plasma dif...
