Lessons from MSU GK-12 Fellows
1. Lessons developed around the field trip to the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, October, 2007
2. Lessons developed around the field trip to the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, May, 2011
3. Lessons developed around the field trip to the New Jersey School of Conservation, May, 2008
- Water Monitoring Lesson.pdf,
Water Monitoring Lesson.doc byJennifer LaPoma.
- Water Monitoring.pdf , in both English and Chinese,
Water Monitoring.doc, by Jennifer LaPoma and Xiaoying Teng.
- Stream Volume of Flow.pdf,
Stream Volume of Flow.doc by Mai Soliman and Daniela Kitanska.
- Leaf Chromatography.pdf ,
Leaf Chromatography.doc, by Sara Saber and Marie McCrary.
- Plant Chromatography.pdf,
Plant Chromatography.doc by Cathleen Dale.
- Rock Analysis.pdf,
Rock Analysis.doc, by Sara Saber and Marie McCrary.
- Soil Properties.pdf,
Soil Properties.doc by Jennifer LaPoma.
- Modeling An Aquifer.pdf,
Modeling An Aquifer.doc by Jennifer LaPoma.
- What's In My Water?.pdf,
What's In My Water?.doc by Cathleen Dale.
4. Lessons developed around the research of the Fellows
- Chaos and Fractal Applications Lesson.pdf ,
Lesson.doc ,
Powerpoint by Marie McCrary.
- Soapy liquid bubbles Lesson.pdf ,
Lesson.doc by Katarzyna Sieminska.
- Build a Magnetometer.pdf ,
Build a Magnetometer.doc by Katarzyna Sieminska.
- Terrabaggar.pdf ,
Terrabagga.doc by Katarzyna Sieminska.
- Statistician.pdf ,
Statistician.doc by Katarzyna Sieminska.
- Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio
Lesson.pdf ,
Lesson.doc ,
Handout.pdf ,
Handout.doc ,
and Powerpoint by Michael K. Wilson.
- Introduction to Genetics.ppt by Barbara Soares.
- Strawberry DNA Extraction.pdf ,
Strawberry DNA Extraction.doc by Barbara Soares.
- Toxicology of Lima Beans.pdf ,
Toxicology of Lima Beans.doc by Barbara Soares.
- Hydrogen Hydroxide Lab Safety.pdf ,
Hydrogen Hydroxide Lab Safety.doc by Barbara Soares.
- Bacterial Culture
- Cell Culture Environment
- Rate and Catalysis.pdf ,
Rate and Catalysis.doc by Tomasz Kurcon.
- Identification of an Unknown Concentration by Titration.pdf
Using a Standard Calibration Curve,
Titraton.doc,
with a Calibration Curve.pdf or
Calibration curve.doc by Tomasz Kurcon.
- Comet Creation: Sublimation Visualization
- Vectors: Which Way is Which?.pdf ,
Vectors.doc by Matthew Vieira.
- Seeing the Magnetic Field.pdf,
Seeing the Magnetic Field.doc by Matthew Vieira.
- Magnets and Motion.pdf ,
Magnets and Motion.doc by Matthew Vieira.
- Magnets and Ferrofluids by Matthew Vieira.
- Finding the area Under a curve.pdf,
Area under a curve.doc by Matthew Vieira.
- Viscosity and Density by Matthew Vieira.
- Non-Newtonian Fluids by Matthew Vieira.
- The Ideal Gas Game.pdf ,
The Ideal Gas Game.doc ,
The Ideal Gas Game Sheet.pdf
The Ideal Gas Game Sheet.doc by Matthew Vieira and Nadia Pasquale.
- Human Complete Graphs by Leslie Cheteyan.
- The Traveling Volcano Salesman by Leslie Cheteyan.
- Social Networking Graphs by Leslie Cheteyan.
- Let’s Build a Roller-Coaster by Leslie Cheteyan.
- Cell Classification.pdf ,
Cell Classification.doc by Nadia Pasquale.
- Counting Cells.pdf ,
Counting Cells.doc by Nadia Pasquale.
- What Does DNA Look Like? by Caitlin Ament.
- From Peas to You: Mendelian Traits by Caitlin Ament.
- Tag - You're Sick!.pdf ,
Tag - You're Sick!.doc
and the worksheet.pdf by Jonathan Hayes.
- Periodic Puns Game by Jonathan Hayes.
- Enzymes.pdf ,
Enzymes.doc by Maryam Alapa and Leslie Cheteyan.
- Enzyme math.pdf ,
Enzyme math.doc
by Maryam Alapa and Leslie Cheteyan.
- How Many Combinations Are There?.pdf ,
How Many Combinations Are There? .doc ,
Worksheet for Combinations and Permutations.pdf ,
Worksheet for Combinations and Permutations.doc
by Leslie Cheteyan and Maryam Alapa
- Chutes and Ladders Game by Stewart Hengeveld.
- Magic Squares.pdf ,
Magic Squares.doc ,
Magic Square Worksheet.pdf ,
Magic Square Worksheet.doc by Stewart Hengeveld.
- Traveling Marine Zoo by Diana Sanchez.
- Mixture and Concentration Investigation.pdf ,
Mixture and Concentration Investigation.doc by Diana Sanchez.
- pH Mystery (A pH investigation).pdf ,
pH Mystery (A pH investigation).doc , and the
PowerPoint presentation by Diana Sanchez.
- Not Your Regular Polygon
- Dear Tootsie (candy wrapper waste)
- Bungee M&Ms (Hooke’s law)
- A Neat Way to Organize Numbers (matrix)
- Check Digits (modulo arithmetic)
- Menu Variables (solving linear equations)
- How Long is Your Pace?
- Decoding the Genetic Code
- Find the Tumor Causing Mutations
- Giant Gel Electrophoresis
- Cell Structure
- Bug Heredity
- Osmosis in Potato
- Chemistry of Fizz
5. Lessons developed by the Teachers
6. Lessons developed around the field trip to the Dreyfuss Planetarium at the Newark Museum, October, 2008,
the virtual trip to Mars (Cornell University) in April, 2009, and the field trip to the Buehler Challenger Space Center, May, 2009
7. Lessons developed around field trips to The Great Swamp in NJ in October 2009, and the virtual field trip to Panama in March 2010.
- Dichotomous Key
- Backyard Biology.pdf , .doc by Barbara Soares
- Make Your Own Inclinometer
- Skunk Cabbage
- Telling Time with Trees
- Trophic Levels by Barbara Soares
- Biodiversity
- Biodiversity and Disease
- Density - How Large is a Glacier?
- Proportions – Scaling a Map
- Sketch a Map of Your Classroom
- Passaic River Experiment (Pollution types)
- Create Your Own Compass
- Compass Geometrics (Angles, Area, Perimeter)
- Create Your Own Dip Net
- Determine Your Ecological Footprint
- How Many Fish are in the Pond?
- Go Fish (sampling)
- Predation or Starvation
- Biotic/Abiotic Game
- Succession in a Jar
- Acid Rain
8. Lessons developed around the boat trip in Sandy Hook Bay in May, 2010.
- Density – Will It Float?
- Supply and Demand for Fish
9. Lessons developed around the field trip to Liberty Science Center in October, 2010.
