LESSON PLANS DEVELOPED BY OUR K-12 FELLOWS IN COLLABORATION WITH MENTOR TEACHERS FROM OUR PARTNER DISTRICTS

Biodiversity

• Math Science Partnership Teaching Experiment website
• Counting birds and learning about data collection (elementary): lesson plan (doc)

• Data Sets for Animal Tracking (elementary-middle school): Lesson Plan (doc), data sheet (doc)

• Lady Beetle Blitz (all levels): lesson plan (doc), Data Sheet (pdf), Instructions (doc), Worksheet (doc)

• Mutualism: Plants, Bugs, and Bacteria: lesson plan (doc)

• Flowers for Freddy: Using Dichotomous Keys to identify organisms: Lesson plan (doc)

• Enemy Release: Lesson plan (pdf), Worksheet (pdf)

• You're Not You When You're Hungry - Animal Behavior: Lesson Plan (doc), Cricket Behavior Protocol (doc), Risk test (doc), Risk test scoring (doc), Single generation biodiversity process tool (doc)

Carbon Cycling

• Rotten but not Forgotten: Decomposition (Middle/High School): Lesson Plan (doc), Assessment Form (doc), Process Tool Food Chain (doc), Reading "Mad About Microbes (doc), Activity Modelling Cell Respiration (doc), Process Tool and Examples (doc)

• The Subliminal Significance of Soils: Carbon Storage in Soils (Middle/High School): Lesson Plan (doc), Lab Protocol (doc)

• Mealworms and Bread mold: Inquiry for Carbon Transforming Processes (Middle/High School): Mealworm worksheet (doc), Mealworm slideshow(pdf), Karen & Mike exercise (doc), Karen & Mike transcript (doc)
• Gases Matter (Elementary/Middle School): Lesson Plan
• Carbon MSP Teaching Experiment (Middle/High School): website

Citizenship

• Citizenship MSP Teaching Materials (Middle/High School) website

Ecology

• Ecosystems, A K-12 Summary for Teachers (doc)

• Ecological Succession in Southern Michigan (high school): Lesson Plan (pdf)

• Ecology Misconceptions (Middle School): Summary (doc)

• Human Disturbance and Succession- Investigating Land Use around your school (all levels): lesson plan (doc)

• Succession (High School): Lesson Plan (doc), Student Worksheet Pre-Assessment (doc), Drawing Seeds (doc)

• Winter Wonderland Eco-Hike (all levels): Lesson Plan (doc), Eco Hike Checklist (doc), Student worksheet (doc), Animal Browse Handout (doc)

Human Impacts

• The impacts of deforestation--A study at Hubbard Brook (high school): lesson plan (doc), data (excel), extensions (excel)

• Humans and Biodiversity (High School): Lesson Plan (doc), Discussion Questions (doc), Sampling Exercise (doc)

• Sustainability of Seafood Consumption (High School): Lesson PlanDebaters Position (ppt), evaluation.doc (doc), exercise (xls), Human Impact in Aquatic Systems (ppt).

Natural Selection

• Don't Shell Yourself Short (Middle/High School): Lesson Plan (doc), Student Worksheet (doc)

• From Molecules to Populations: Describing Diversity Using Molecular Tools (High School): Lesson Plan (doc), Genetic Sequences (doc), Lady Beetle Introduction Sequences (doc), Phenotypic and Genotypic Comparison of Asian Lady Beetles (doc), Genetics Assessment Item (doc), Mitochondrial DNA Data Sheet Complete Sample (doc)

Science Teaching

• A guide to Inquiry for teachers (all levels): summary
• Using Vocabulary in the science classroom (all levels): Powerpoint

Water

• Lake Michigan Literacy Initiative (all levels): Lesson Plan (doc), Presentation (ppt)

• Frogsicles: Freezing Point Depression and how frogs survive the winter (high school): Lesson Plan (doc), Student Worksheet (doc), Relevant Standards (doc)

• Groundwater (all levels): lesson plan (doc), teacher handout (doc), powerpoint (pptx)

• Lake Ice Cover Comparisons using Excel (middle-high school): Lesson Plan (doc), GK-12_Global_Climate_Change.ppt (ppt), student handout (doc), simple data (excel),standard data (excel), teacher data (excel)
• Nanoecology

• Water and Winter: Water in temperate lakes (all levels): Lesson Plan , Ice Off Lab Worksheet (pdf)Water Misconceptions (middle school): Summary (doc)
• Water Conservation (all levels): Lesson Plan (doc), Powerpoint (ppt)
• Water Movement and Quality Talk (Steve Hamilton) Powerpoint (ppt)
• Water MSP Teaching Experiment (Middle/High School) Website