High School Lessons

Astronomy

• Aurora Borealis - What Creates These Shimmering Celestial Lights?
• Collecting Micrometeorites
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Galaxy Mapping - Why Make Maps of the Galaxies?
• Luna and Io - A Comparison Study
• Make a Comet Nucleus
• Measuring Stellar Temperatures: How Hot Is That Star?
• Meteors - What are Meteors and Where Do they Come From?
• Moon Phases - Easier Done Than Said
• Spotting Sunspots

Biology

• AIDS - What Is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
• Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Biological Rhythyms
• Blood Typing - What Makes Different Blood Types Different?
• Body Fat - Is All Fat Bad?
• Bone Marrow - What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does It Work?
• Bones - How Do Bones Get So Strong?
• Broken Bones
• California Blackworms Curriculum - 7-12th grade toxicology activity
• Cancer Causes - Why Do People Get Cancer?
• Cancer Treatments - Is Cancer Curable?
• Cluster Busters - Solve disease mysteries, investigate environmental toxicants
• Cockroaches
• Coffee - How Does a Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?
• Diabetes - What Is Type 1 Diabetes?
• Diet and Nutrition
• DNA Fingerprinting - Can Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?
• Dolphin Communication
• Glaucoma
• Hearing - Can I Damage My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?
• High Jump - How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?
• Hip Replacement - How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?
• How Do Sharks Find Their Prey?
• In-Vitro Fertilization - What Are "Test-Tube Babies" and How Are They Made?
• Jungle Survival - How Do People Survive in the Jungle without Food or Water?
• Malaria Tracking - How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?
• Medical Quackeries - Can this Machine Cure Me?
• Modeling the Nervous System
• Murder Mystery - How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?
• Mushroom Prints
• Naturally Occurring Pesticides: 7-12th grade toxicology curriculum
• Nicotine - Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?
• Olympic Training Center - How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?
• Photosynthesis - How Do Plants Make Food?
• Prosthetic Limbs
• Race for the Cure: This activity simulates the extraction, identification, and separation of chemicals in or on plants using chromatography.
• Solar-Powered Cars
• Steroids - Do Athletes Need to Take Synthetic Steroids?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?
• Where Does Jell-O Really Come From?
• Why Do You Need a Liver?
• Wild Lion Vets

Chemistry

• Antacid Tablet Race
• Ethanol - How Does It Make a Car Run?
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
• Where Does Jell-O Really Come From?

Earth Science

• Avalanche Rescue - How Do Dogs Find People Buried in an Avalanche?
• Balloon Safari - How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?
• Community Problem Solving
• Cratering in Your Classroom
• Dinosaur I - Finding and Dating
• Dinosaur II - Assembling a Dinosaur
• Equator - What Is Life Like for Animals, Plants and People at the African Equator?
• Gems - How Do Gemstones Get Their Color?
• Glass Recycling
• Graphing Stratospheric Ozone
• The Greenhouse Effect
• How Are Caves Formed?
• Oil Spills - How Do You Clean Up an Oil Spill?
• Ozone - How Do CFC's Destroy Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere?
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• What Are the Best Ways to Dispose of Hazardous Materials?
• What Does Saving Trees Have to Do with the Ozone Layer?

Physical Science

• Air Bags and Collisions - How Do Airbags Prevent Automobile Injuries?
• Air Pressure - What Is Air Pressure and How Can It Be Measured?
• Aircraft Fire Rescue - How Does a Firefighter Put Out an Airplane Fire?
• Altitude Tracking
• Antacid Tablet Race
• Balloon Staging - Rocket Staging
• Bicycles - How Do a Bike and Its Rider Stay Up?
• Circles of Light: The Mathematics of Rainbows
• Circus High Wire - How Do Tightrope Walkers Keep Their Balance?
• Cryogenics - Science Fact or Science Fiction?
• Domed Stadiums - What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
• Flying Tube
• Flying Wing
• Four-Wing Paper Boomerang
• Frisbee Physics - How Does Physics Play a Role in Frisbee Flying?
• Hollywood Stunts
• How Do Clocks Keep Time?
• Human Slingshot Ride - How Does the "Ejector Seat" Ride Work?
• Hypercoaster - How Do You Know a Roller Coaster Is Safe?
• Ice Surfers - How Do They Go So Fast?
• In-Line Skating - Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?
• Inca Engineering - How Did the Incas Build without Mortar or Wheels?
• Liquid Bottle Rocket
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun!
• Locks and Dams - How Do a Lock and Dam Make a Waterway Navigable?
• Luge - How Do Engineering and Technology Play a Role in the Olympics?
• Making a Hair Hygrometer
• Making a Steam-Powered "Rocket Boat"
• Making a Wind Sock
• Match-Stick Rocket
• McEagle Styrofoam Glider
• Microwave Ovens - What Is the Science Behind Microwave Cooking?
• Mummies - How are Mummies Able to "Survive" the Tests of Time?
• Musical Tube
• Newton Car
• Pencil Rockets
• Ping Pong Ball Curves
• Riverboats - How Does Steam Power Big Machinery
• Rock Climbing - How Can the Human Body Stick to a Sheer Cliff?
• Rocket Car
• Rocket Pinwheel
• Scuba Diving
• Ski Jumping - How Do Ski Jumpers Go So Far?
• Slinky Physics - How Do Toys Work?
• Soda Pop Can Hero Engine
• Splitting Water - H₂O Hydrolysis
• Telecommunications - New Frontiers in Electronic Communications
• Using Bubbles to Learn about Light Interference
• Waterskiing - How Do Water Skis Stay Up?
• What Is Infrared Light and How Does It Work?
• Wooden Helicopter

Technology

• Archery - How Has Technology Changed the Bow and Arrow over the Centuries?
• Car Engines
• Domed Stadiums - What Keeps Inflated Stadiums Up?
• Electric Cars
• Ergonomics - What is Ergonomics and Why is it Important?
• How Do the Bar-codes at the Grocery Store Work?
• How TV Works
• In-Line Skating - Do In-Line Skates Really Go Faster than Roller Skates?
• Jumbo Jets - How Do they Get off the Ground?
• Making a Steam - Powered "Rocket Boat"
• Maya Bike Trek - How Can Technology Help You Take a Bike Trip through Central America?
• Medical Quackeries - Can This Machine Cure Me?
• The "Minimum" Solar Box Cooker
• Omnimax - How is a Giant Screen Movie Made and Projected?
• Satellite Technology - What Will Future Satellite Technology Bring?
• A Simple Solar Water Pasteurizer
• Simulator Rides - How Are Amusement Park Rides Designed to Create Illusions?
• Solar Hot Dog Cooker
• Splitting Water - H₂O Hydrolysis
• The Sun Star Solar Cooker
• Taking Apart Electrical Appliances
• Traffic Control - How Can Technology Help Alleviate Traffic Jams?
• Web Training - Learning to Use the Internet