This lesson, supported by hands-on activities, video, and Internet connections will examine our reliance on latitude and longitude, not only to give us our location on maps, but our connection to time and time zones. Many African Americans have contributed important discoveries and missions to the world of science. In this lesson, students study about several of these important scientists and explore their lives. In a writing exercise, students recreate one scientist's experiences through a journal entry. Students use the Internet to find and compare illnesses that they have had or that they have heard about in the media.
Students explore the mechanisms behind catching and transmitting bacterial and viral diseases.
They then publish what they have learned on a class Web site or magazine. The goal of the lesson is to create a classroom environment where students may discuss how alcohol affects individuals, their bodies, and their behavior. This lesson uses mysterious online images to help develop students' deduction skills and inspire their curiosity. The Dynamic Earth Students are introduced to the nature of earthquakes and volcanoes. Students learn about the effects of earthquakes from eyewitnesses to the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906.