Here is a lesson plan on today's farming for students to learn and explore using Microsoft Excel.

Milk is made up of water, fat, and proteins. Each of these molecules have charges and are held together by intramolecular forces. When the dish soap is added to the plate it quickly disperses across the surface as it is attracted to the water molecules and the food coloring is pulled along. This could be used as an anchoring phenomenon on matter, materials, or intramolecular forces.

A marine survey ship maps ocean depth by using sonar to reflect a sound pulse off the ocean floor. Figure A shows the ship's location at B on the surface of the ocean. The sonar apparatus aboard the ship is capable of emitting sound pulses in an arc measuring from 2 to 30 degrees. In two dimensions this arc is shown within Figure A by , and the emanating sound pulses are displayed by the dashed lines and the solid lines BA and BC.

This lesson will engage students in understanding the impact Mormon pioneer settlers had on Native American tribes living in Utah. Students will also understand and appreciate the role that Mormon pioneer settlers had on the eventual settling of Utah. Students will be assessed by creating an Apple Pages project wherein they demonstrate their understanding of the two issues. Students are asked to create an essay including images about the impact Mormon pioneer settlement of Utah had on Native Americans. Image Credit: North Wind Picture Archives

Motels and hotels hire people to clean the rooms after each evening's use. Develop a mathematical model for the cleaning schedule and use of cleaning resources. Your model should include consideration of such things as stay-overs, costs, number of rooms, number of rooms per floor, etc. Draft a letter to the manger of a major motel or hotel complex that recommends your model to help them in the management of their operation.

In this lesson, students will trace the growing public voice of women in American society through various reform movements as well as organized womenâ"s rights movements in antebellum America. Students will analyze the writings of men and women central to the rise of the womenâ"s rights movement and analyze the contributions of several leading figures in the movement.

State by state and federal approach to women's suffrage. Women's suffrage organizations. Tactics used to protect women's suffrage.

A great deal of preparation must take place before a movie can be filmed. Important sets and scenes need to be identified, resource needs must be calculated, and schedules must be arranged. The issue of the schedule is the focus of the modeling activities. A large studio has contacted your firm, and they wish to have a model to allow for scheduling a movie. You are asked to answer the questions below. You should provide examples and test cases to convince the movie executives that your model is effective and robust.

For over 20 years, a summer program for gifted adolescents at Western Kentucky University has offered an arts-integrated history course on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The course concludes with students working as a group to create a large mural on the Holocaust. In this way, students use the power of art to deal with their own emotions as well as to educate others. The murals from the past 20 years went on a traveling display in Kentucky to engage a broader audience in thought-provoking conversation on the topic. In this video collection, hear the stories of a Holocaust survivor and the son of a Holocaust survivor who are involved with the program, learn how students in the program decided on a theme for their mural, and learn how one teacher incorporates the arts into Holocaust history lessons.

In this NOVA Lab, students will learn how scientists use sophisticated instruments and data to study and predict the development of Earth’s powerful storms. Students will learn about cloud types, investigate the progression of Hurricane Sandy, and analyze data to reconstruct the paths of three tropical cyclones. Finally, students will use the NASA Worldview tool to investigate recent conditions for a region. Students predict how storms may develop or change using data, such as water vapor, cloud top temperature and pressure, and land temperature.

In this media-rich lesson plan, students explore how to keep their digital lives safe, spot cyber scams, and learn the basics of coding from NOVA Labs. The lesson begins with students watching the Cybersecurity 101 video and discussing the online safety measures that they currently take. Next, students make predictions about online safety best practices, complete the Level 1 challenges of the NOVA Cybersecurity Lab, and compare the best practices from the game with their predictions. Students reconvene for direct instruction on the best practices and key computer science terms, and then finish the Cybersecurity Lab game. Finally, students complete the video quizzes with short-response discussion questions and can work on the Cybersecurity stories as homework reading assignments.

In this media-rich lesson plan from NOVA Labs, students use short videos to explore the following topics: what energy is, how it can be converted into useful forms, and why some sources are running low. Students also investigate alternative energies and how energy is stored and transported. The research challenge allows students to use scientific data to design their own renewable energy plans for a real cities and compete with others to produce the most power. Students use maps, graphs, and weather data to assess the energy potential of various locations and benefits of using renewable energy in different regions of the country.

Explore the evidence for evolution through phylogenetics with this lesson plan from NOVA's Evolution Lab. First, students consider and discuss how we understand and organize the biodiversity that exists on Earth. Students are then introduced to phylogenetic trees and practice building them with the Build a Tree interactive. In Build a Tree, students use both morphology and DNA analysis to identify relationships between species. Next, students explore speciation and shared ancestry with the Deep Tree interactive. As an interactive tree of life, Deep Tree helps students understand evolutionary history on Earth. Discussion questions and video quizzes allow educators to assess student understanding.

In this media-rich lesson plan from NOVA's Sun Lab, students use short videos to explore the following topics: the Sun's structure, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, Earth’s magnetic field, the electromagnetic spectrum, how space weather affects Earth, the physics of light, and telescopes. Students also find our place in the current solar cycle, predict future solar storms, and develop their own research project.

​Salt Lake biologist Nalini Nadkarni shares her personal journey of becoming a treetop canopy biologist. At a young age she faced a career crossroads. Her decision led her out of Paris and deep into the tropical rain forests. In this unit, Nalini reflects on how she makes big decisions, when to take the leap, and how she found her life's work, up in the treetops, the vantage point where she sees the world, big and small.

Students will investigate the properties of matter too small to see, as well as how it behaves when present in different quantities. Students will design a procedure to measure the thickness of a thin film of oil on the surface of water.

Mathematical modeling involves two equally important steps - building models based on real world situations and interpreting predictions made by those models back in the real world. This problem places equal emphasis on both steps.

We are at the start of the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, and one important area of debate is sure to be the national debt. As high school students, you have a particular interest in this subject since you are the people who will pay off or at least manage the national debt in the future. The rate at which the national debt changes depends on the difference between federal income (primarily taxes) and federal expenditures. Your first task is to build a model that can be used to help understand the national debt and make forecasts based on different assumptions. As usual, modeling involves a balance between so much complexity that the model may be intractable and so little complexity that it is unrealistic and useless. Your model needs, at the very least, to allow you to consider different tax policies and different expenditure policies.

This resource from the National Constitution Center includes an introduction, big questions, recorded class sessions, briefing documents, slide decks, and worksheets about the Electoral College and the United States election process.

In this lesson, students will learn about the 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education and the succeeding efforts at responsible education reform in America. They will also determine ways they can be responsible.