Teaching Ideas
Become a Scientist
Listen to an excerpt of Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton and Don Tate to set the stage for your own experiments. Then, explore these ideas and create your own invention.
After viewing this complete book reading for Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty, complete this soap powered boat experiment.
In Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard, readers observe birds in their own communities. Create your own science journals by drawing and writing about the animals you see.