Resources
- Educator Giveaways
- Provided by Bay Area Biotechnology Education Consortium
- Lab Resources
- For Educators
- Free giveaway of industry and university science surplus equipment, supplies and furniture for teachers of K-12, community college and university faculty. Research non-profits are also welcome with proven 501(c)3 status.
- What's Cooking
- Provided by Pitsco Education
- Earth/Environmental Science, Physics
- Science Kits
- For Everyone, Educators, Students
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Objective:
Identify and record the temperature of the solar oven over a period of time for a cooking project.Description:
Experiment with the solar oven by measuring and recording the temperature over a period of time and plan a cooking project.Procedures:
Build the Solar Oven Kit and place the completed Solar Oven in the Sun, positioning it carefully for maximum exposure to direct sunlight.Measure the temperature inside the oven every 15 minutes for 60 minutes. Record your findings of the temperature increase.
Prepare ingredients following a chosen recipe for a cooking project. Take careful consideration while choosing your cooking project and be sure to factor in your temperature findings.
Remember that solar cooking takes longer than cooking with conventional ovens. The oven may not get hot enough to safely cook products containing egg.
Discussion:
What were the temperature increases? Graph your results.Continuation:
Experiment recording the temperatures of the oven at different times of the day when the Sun is in different locations in the sky. What effect does this have on your results? Will it take longer to cook the same project at 8:00 a.m. than it would at 12:00 noon?
- Blade Overload
- Provided by Pitsco Education
- Physics
- Science Kits
- For Educators, Students
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Objective:
Design and construct a turbine with four, five, or six blades to determine optimum energy output.Description:
Experiment with a Wind Gen using four, five, or six blades to determine the maximum energy generated.Procedures:
Brainstorm design ideas for a turbine with four, five, or six blades that will attach to the completed Wind Gen. Record these design ideas on paper or graph paper.Select what you believe to be the best design. Draw and construct the newly designed turbine blades to scale.
From balsa wood, design and construct the turbine frame that will attach to the motor of the Wind Gen.
Attach the turbine blades to the frame. Create a data table to record the results of your experiment.
Test the newly designed turbine and record the data from the experiment.
Discussion:
Draw conclusions about your turbine design.
- California Academy of Sciences
- Provided by Bio-Community.org
- General Learning Resources
- Standards-based science activities, lesson plans, images, glossaries, & more. Borrow a kit full of exciting materials to use in your classroom! Available for preschool though grade 12, kits include lesson plans, games, specimens, books, DVDs, and more. Activities are designed to be fun and engaging while meeting California Science Content Standards.
- Khan Academy
- Provided by Bio-Community.org
- General Learning Resources
- The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. A not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. The library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.