CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.3
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
Planets and Galaxies Lesson Plan: Sizing Up the Universe Interactive Game
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In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 4-8. students use BrainPOP resources (including a free online interactive) to explore the vastness of the universe and the size and distance between c...
Atomic Bonding Lesson Plan: Atom Touch
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, students play Atom Touch, a simulation that invites learners to explore principles of thermodynamics and molecular dynamics. Specifically, they gain a ha...
DNA Lesson Plan: Produce a Newscast
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 4-12, students explore BrainPOP features and resources to learn about DNA, focusing specifically on the modern uses of DNA. Students will produce a newscast a...
Computational Modeling Lesson Plan: Marvelous Models
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, students play Marvelous Models, a game that challenges them to create models from scratch. Through play, students gain insight into a system through the ...
Molecule Arrangement Lesson Plan: Crystal Cave
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, students play Crystal Cave, a game that challenges them to arrange molecules of different shapes and properties into an ordered, stable configuration. Th...
Computer Coding Lesson Plan: Creative Coding
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about topics related to computer coding. Then they’ll show what they know about the topic by completing one...
Eclipse Lesson Plan: Make a Pinhole Camera
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about what an eclipse is and what causes them. Then they’ll make their own pinhole cameras (activity adapte...
Forming Ionic Compounds Lesson Plan: Collisions Ionic Bonding
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, features the game Collisions: Ionic Bonding. The game challenges students to build ionic compounds that satisfy target ratios. As they move up levels, the c...
Mission US: Up from the Dust Lesson Plan
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, centers around the simulation Mission US: Up from the Dust, which provides young people with an experiential understanding of the enormous hardships facin...
National Parks Lesson Plan: Research a National Park
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, invites students to explore BrainPOP resources to learn about America’s National Parks, from the history of why they were established to how they provide s...
