This lesson plan is designed for middle and high school classrooms as a research project regarding food customs around the world. Students (groups) will be allowed to choose a country and research the different factors that influence food customs and culture.

In this lesson, students learn about psychological variables that can affect athletic performance. Students will also be able to identify strategies to help athletes cope with stresses. The knowledge acquired will be incorporated within a player injury profile. This lesson 3 of 4 is a part of a injury management project.In this lesson students learn the basic terminology related to sports psychology and psychological variables that can affect athletic performance. Students will be able to understand coping strategies to help athletes deal with sport related stresses. The activities used to aid in understanding of sports psychology will be a lecture and video and article response writing along with  group discussion to athletes dealing with psychological barriers and how they cope with them.

Starting from Max Planck’s law of black body radiation to Einstein's photoelectric effect this first part of the Mini Lecture "Quantum Mechanics" introduces to the beginnings of quantum physics.

In this video adapted from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, learn how plotting the changes in an object's position on a graph can provide information about the object's motion.

This teaching activity addresses environmental stresses on corals. Students assess coral bleaching using water temperature data from the NOAA National Data Buoy Center. Students learn about the habitat of corals, the stresses on coral populations, and the impact of increased sea surface temperatures on coral reefs. In a discussion section, the connection between coral bleaching and global warming is drawn.

Watershed Awareness using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability (WATERS)

The WATERS project is developing and researching a student-centered, place-based, and accessible curriculum for teaching watershed concepts and water career awareness for students in the middle grades. This 10-lesson unit includes online, classroom, and field activities. Students use a professional-grade online GIS modeling resource, simulations, sensors, and other interactive resources to collect environmental data and analyze their local watershed issues. The WATERS project is paving a path to increased access to research-based, open access curricula that hold the potential to significantly increase awareness of and engagement with watershed concepts and career pathways in learners nationwide.

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Students will observe, measure, sort, and examine (shapes and textures)of leaves individually, in groups, and in relationship to the entire plant.

For Iowa History- Learn about the First Inhabitants of Iowa• Video narrative written by Sandra Kessler Host researcher, author, and curator of the Iowa Rural...

This book offers an introduction to the electromagnetic spectrum using examples of data from a variety of NASA missions and satellite technologies. The 84 problem sets included allow students to explore the concepts of waves, wavelength, frequency, and speed; the Doppler Shift; light; and the energy carried by photons in various bands of the spectrum. Extensive background information is provided which describes the nature of electromagnetic radiation.

This is a lesson plan designed to inform students about the importance of physical activity in their daily lives.

In this video segment adapted from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Inuit observers describe how their traditional understanding of weather patterns is being challenged by unpredictable weather behaviors.

A short video that discusses how changing climate is affecting the population of AdÃlie penguins.

For Iowa History- Unit 1 PowerPoint video Learn about the Formation of Iowa's Soils and Why the Prairie land is Unique. • Video narrative written by Sandra Kessler Host...

For Iowa History- Learn about the Formation of Iowa's Soils and Why the Prairieland is Unique. • Video narrative written by Sandra Kessler Host researcher, ...

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Biology
SCB 201 – General Biology I
Chemistry
SCC 110 – Foundations of Chemistry
SCC 201 – General Chemistry I
SCC 202 – General Chemistry II
Physics and Astronomy
SCP 101 – Topics in Physics
SCP 105 – Life in the Universe
SCP 140 – Topics in Astronomy
SCP 201 – Fundamentals of Physics I
SCP 202 – Fundamentals of Physics II

This is an interactive worksheet designed for highschool PE students to use to track their physical activity and target heart rate. 

In this video lesson, the concept of momentum applied to hard-body collisions is explained using a number of simple demonstrations, all of which can be repeated in the classroom. Understanding Newton's Laws is fundamental to all of physics, and this lesson introduces the vital concepts of momentum and energy, and their conservation. Only some preliminary ideas of algebra are used here, and all the concepts presented can be found in any high-school level physics book. In terms of materials required, getting hold of large steel balls may not be easy, but large ball bearings can be procured easily. On the basis of what students have learned in the video, teachers can easily generate a large number of questions that relate to one's daily experiences, or which pose new challenges: for example, in a collision between a heavy and light vehicle, why do those inside the lighter one suffer less injury?

Hello Everyone,
This is my 5 day lesson plan for the CTE Training. I hope that it is useful for your classes in Health Sciences and in Family and Consumer Sciences.

Kristen Smith