Lesson Plans (1-20 of 27)

1. Bio-Inspired Paper Flowers

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   03 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s):: Bryan Hubbard, James Daniel Lehman

   This grade 3 lesson introduces students to the basic structures of plants and their functions. Students are challenged to create paper flowers that turn colors through processes that mimics how real plants function.

2. Design of a Door Alarm

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   10 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: David C Eichinger, Erin K Doherty, James Daniel Lehman, Venkatesh Merwade

   This grade 4 design task helps students learn about simple circuits by designing a door alarm.

3. Design of a Green Roof

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   03 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Bryan Hubbard, James Daniel Lehman

   This grade 4 lesson addresses standards related to plant adaptation and response to the environment. Students are challenged to construct a model of a green roof for a house.

4. Design of Musical Instruments for a Rock Band

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   10 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: David C Eichinger, Erin K Doherty, James Daniel Lehman, Venkatesh Merwade

   This grade 3 design task helps students to learn about sound by designing a stringed musical instrument.

5. Design Team Developed: Sun Tracking System for a Solar Panel

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   13 Sep 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Bryan Hubbard, Kari Clase, John Grutzner, Alyssa Panitch, Nancy Irene Tyrie

   This lesson plan is designed for 6th grade and addresses topics related to the sun-earth-moon system. Specifically, this lesson addresses that seasons result from the tilt of the earth, which causes changes in sunlight intensity and length of day. Related mathematical standards address...

6. Designing Professional Development Template

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   08 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

   This template is for SLED teachers to design professional development experiences for other teachers. It was developed for use during the 2015 summer institute.

7. Designing Safer Roadways

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   03 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Kendra A Erk, James Daniel Lehman

   This grade 4 design task focuses on forces, motion, and transportation systems by challenging students to design a roadway that will slow and then stop vehicles from running off the road.

8. Dog gone it!

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   08 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brenda Capobianco, Todd Richard Kelley, Chell Nyquist, James Daniel Lehman

   This design challenge, for students in grade 3, focuses on simple and compound machines. The objective of the challenge is to design a compound machine to help a large breed of dog to get into and out of the back of a car.

9. Drink Pouch

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   11 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Bryan Hubbard, Alyssa Panitch, Kari Clase, Tahira Reid, Nancy Irene Tyrie, James Daniel Lehman

   This 3rd grade design activity is focused on creating a drink pouch that can keep a drink cool in the hot sun.

10. Earthen Dam Design Task

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    03 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Venkatesh Merwade, James Daniel Lehman

    This grade 3 design task focuses on earth materials and the construction of an earthen dam.

11. Exploring Whirligigs

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    09 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

    This inquiry lesson, for grades 3-4, involves students conducting a fair test investigation to determine the way an object (a whirligig) falls through the air and how this fall depends on its mass, surface area, and other factors. This lesson is an adaptation of a lesson developed by...

12. Hot Wheels Lab

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    25 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Nikki Rumpler, James Daniel Lehman

    This grade 4 inquiry lab lesson plan, developed by Nikki Rumpler for the 2014 SLED Summer Institute, addresses the question, "Does the height of a ramp affect the speed and distance a Hot Wheels car will travel?"

13. Lifeguard Chair

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    09 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

    This lesson, for grades 3-6, involves an introductory design activity to build a lifeguard chair from note cards and tape. It is an adaptation of a design lesson introduced by Engineering is Elementary called “Tower Power.”

14. Light Just Right

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    13 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: James Daniel Lehman

    This 4th grade design activity focuses on electrical current and resistance. Students design a way to make a bulb light with differing brightnesses.

15. Long version-SLED Unit Plan Template 2014

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    03 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

    The long version of the SLED Unit Plan Template for 2014-15.

16. Pill Bugs' Habitat Inquiry Activity

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    11 Nov 2012 | | Contributor(s):: James Daniel Lehman

    This is an inquiry activity, aligned to grade 4-6 standards, in which students design fair test investigations to determine the habitat of pill bugs (roly polies).

17. Save the Wolf (Simple Machines)

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    03 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Kendra A Erk, James Daniel Lehman

    This grade 3 design lesson introduces simple machines and challenges students to use simple machines to create a device to capture a wolf.

18. Short version-SLED Unit Plan Template 2014

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    03 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

    The short version of the SLED Unit Plan Template for 2014-15.

19. SLED Unit Implementation Plan Rubric 2013-14 2014-15

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    12 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

    This rubric will be used to assess teachers' unit implementation plans for the SLED project.

20. SLED Unit Plan Template 2015-16

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    08 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

    This is the SLED unit implementation plan template for the 2015-16 academic year.