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The academic name "Scientific Method" is misleading. It conjures bubbling beakers and lab coats and pocket protectors. And it's true, scientists use the Scientific Method to make decisions. But it's not just scientists. The Scientific Method is a smart way to make decisions that students are probably already using every day. This Scientific Method interactive activity allows students to practice using the scientific method on common occurrences. So when they actually need to use it for science class, it'll be no sweat. Scientific Method Lesson Plan Objective: Students will be able to define and follow the steps of the scientific…

[jwplayer file=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/media-jrev/industrial-revolution-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images-jrev/industrial-revolution-image.jpg] Check out the lyrics and more. Every aspect of life changed during the Industrial Revolution, from food to work to housing to what people did in their free time. Innovative inventions spurred many of these changes. This lesson plan will challenge students to decide which invention changed the world the most. Industrial Revolution Lesson Plan Lesson Objective: Think critically about different Industrial Revolution inventions and support an opinion about which invention is most influential. Materials: Industrial Revolution video, Debate Worksheet, computer access for research, student notebook or document to take notes. 1. Play the free Flocabulary video,…

...and the other president you can thank for the crazy shopping afterward. Most of us associate Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, but Turkey Day wasn't official until good old Honest Abe came along. Abraham Lincoln is the US president who made Thanksgiving a national holiday, and he did it in the midst of the Civil War. He proclaimed the first official national "day of thanks" on November 26, 1863. From then on, Thanksgiving was observed on the last Thursday of each November. Then in 1939, in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt had an idea.…

Have you ever wanted to travel to another planet? We certainly do. And when we were doing research for our solar system rap video, "Confessions of a Planet," we thought it would be a good excuse to figure out just how much gas we might need to reach Jupiter. (When we go into space, we go big.) So what is the distance of Jupiter from Earth? It turns out that the answer is complicated. In our heliocentric universe, everyone can tell you how far the planets are from the sun. The number varies throughout the year due to our elliptical…