Space Lesson Plans with Google Sky

  Google Earth is a terrific resource for your science classroom, even when you’re studying space rather than Earth. Start by downloading Google Earth. It’s fast and  free. Once it’s installed on your computer (fairly automatic — you might have to give permission, but otherwise it’ll install itself), just open… Continue reading

Global Warming Lesson Plans

  Global warming, or climate change, is an important topic. It can be hard to teach, though, since it’s very controversial. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming is accessible to older elementary and secondar students, and includes lots of good graphics. How We Know What We… Continue reading