Fishy Science	The Incredible Egg
Rockets Away	Breads of the Harvest
Other Lessons	How to get Started

Here is your opportunity to enhance your students classroom experience through low-cost, hands-on curriculum developed by Extension faculty at The Ohio State University.

These programs:

• Stimulate students to further their interest in science and math.
• Integrate into, rather than add to, your teaching load.
• Work in sequence or independently within a particular unit of study.
• Address science as well as math, language arts, and social concepts.
• Enhance students understanding of difficult concepts through a variety of hands-on activities, experiments and student-ready materials.
• Allow students to apply science to real-life situations while developing science thinking and processing skills.

Welcome to the world of Fishy Science! The purpose of this program is to introduce some basic concepts about fish through the use of an aquarium, select activities and experiments.  Through viewing the Eyewitness video, students take a dive into the waters of the world to discover the most exotic creatures in nature.  Students experience hands-on experiments involving osmosis, fish parts, sensory features and abilities of fish, as well as differences among the species.

Four Lessons with Activities

• Lesson 1: How Fish Swim
• Lesson 2: How Fish Breathe
• Lesson 3: Sensory Features and Abilities
• Lesson 4: Special Adaptation to Water

Which came first?  Students can be the judge with this unique curriculum. These activities integrate the concepts of chick embryology with easy-to-use math, science and language arts.  Through the use of photographs and artwork the students chart the early stages of a chicks life. 

This four-lesson plan includes:

• Parts of a Raw Egg
• Strength of the Egg Shell
• Observing Stages of a Developing Embryo
• Observing a Fertilized Egg Hatch

Rockets Away
Grades 4-8

Blast off for an action packed adventure in math, engineering, aerospace, and physics with this three or four unit study of rocketry science!  Lessons in motion, gravity, and aerodynamics send the students interest soaring.  All this leads up to the ultimate thrill - building and launching their own rockets.

Among the activities:

• Understanding and applying Newton's Three Laws of Motion
• Observing the relationship between force and mass
• Testing turbulence
• Exploring stability and motion
• Constructing and launching a 2-liter bottle rocket

The teachers guide comes complete with lesson plans.  An optional IBM compatible computer diskette presents problem simulations and design and flight configurations for 2-liter bottle rockets.  Also included is a program for recording and analyzing launch data.
 

Breads of the Harvest
Grades 3-6

Through this unique project youth get the opportunity to study American history from a new angle: by studying about the history of bread.  Students will develop science skills like analyzing, experimenting, making assumptions and using scientific tools while learning about the lifestyles and traditions of the pilgrims.

Topics that may be covered:

• Early lifestyles of the pilgrims
• Yeast and quick breads
• The business of baking
• Let’s bake the bread

Other Lessons Available:

Ohio Birds - Learn about bird identification, habitats, migration, bird nests and houses, what birds eat, and how they fly.  Build your own birdfeeder or make a bluebird trail.
 

Electricity - Explore the science of electrical energy.  Build circuits with batteries, light bulbs and wire, learn about magnetism, and investigate the difference between series and parallel circuits as you build your own switches.
 

Water Wise – Investigate the properties of water through many hands on experiments.  Unit concludes with a game that explores the travel of a drop of water through the environment.
 

Plants – Start plants from seed, learn about plant parts and what parts we eat, transplant seedlings and experiment with different growing variables.  A gro-lab is available to use in your classroom.
 
 
 

HOW TO GET STARTED

 Ohio State University Extension, Ashland County, has many resources available for classroom teachers. 

 We can also provide instructors to come into your classroom and lead these activities.
Programs are currently being scheduled for the 2003-2004 school year.  Please give us a call to sign up for a program(s) or for more information.

Your students who participate in these activities are eligible to participate in all aspects of the 4-H program including camp, educational summer clinics, and the county fair.
We look forward to working with you!
 
 
 

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