January 20, 2013

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BASIS Lesson Plan Archive

Explore the range of science experiences that scientists have brought to students in past BASIS lessons.

Kindergarten

Earth Science

All About Volcanoes (Reuter 11-12) 
Resource Use and Conservation (Colston 11-12)

Life Science

Animals Around the World (Domingo 06-07)
Build-a-Bug (Bayer scientist adoption of original Entomology Group 07-08)
Germs and Your Body (Alber Group 08-09)
How Do We Taste Food? (Shyam Patel 10-11)

Physical Science

Buoyancy: Who Sank the Boat? (Bioengineering 09-10)
Hidden Colors (Abby Knight 11-12)
Sink or Float: Experiements in Buoyancy (CRS 11-12)
What's in a Color? (Cal Bioengineering 10-11)

First Grade

Earth Science

Clouds, Clouds Everywhere (Bayer-CRS 11-12)

Life Science 

All About Seeds (Okrent, Shurlach, Jones 07-08)
Animal Body Structure and Habitats (Williams 11-12)
Ask A Tree How Old It Is (DeChant 06-07)
Botany on Your Plate (UC Botanical Gardens 11-12)
Botany on Your Plate, Spanish Version (Clorox 12-13)
Roots, Seeds, and Stems - Putting Plants Together (Anton, Laurie, and Tania 10-11)
Science and the Beanstalk (Schawel 08-09)
Turtles & Tortoises (Barnett and Begum 05-06)
You Are What You Eat: How Diet Shapes Teeth (Atteholt 09-10)

Physical Science

Second Grade

Earth Science 

Fossil Formation (Alice & Mel 11-12)
Fun With Fossils (Batavia 08-09)
Soils: The Ground We Stand On (Minda and Olivia 11-12)
Soil Isn't Dirty (Ryals 06-07)

Life Science

Biodiversity in Insects (Bennett 07-08)
Butterflies (Levinson 06-07)
Plants and the Environment (Plants: Kevin, Candice, Jules 10-11)
Plant Life Cycles (Plant and Microbial Biology, 11-12)

Physical Science

Balloon Rocket Cars (​Bayer scientist adoption of original Chemical Engineering group 08-09)
Gears in Motion (MEGSCOV 11-12)
Hear All About It!-Sound (Ashmi, Jisella 12-13)
How to Make Things Fly (Smythe 06-07)
Magnets are Sweet (SEED: Brian 10-11)
Making the Band (BGESS group 08-09)
Marshmallow Challenge: A Tower Building Adventure (Venugopalan 12-13)
Materials and Structures (SEED: Katie, Margaret, Bret 10-11)
Simple Machines- the Application of Forces (Rahmany, Marukami 12-13) 
Waves (Johnson 10-11) 
Which Falls Faster (Zenz 06-07)

Third Grade

Earth Science

Global Warming (Alivisatos Group 07-08)
There are Days and Seasons (Turn, Turn, Turn) (Pepe & Vandenbroucke 08-09)
Pictures in the Sky (Lum, Abdnour 12-13)
Life Science
Aquatic Adaptation (Merzlyak 04-05)
Natural Selection: Clipfish (Jeskya 12-13)
Natural Selection in Predators and Prey (Hammond 11-12)
Oil Spills! (Burch,Cherk,Cho,Nuccio,Whiston 07-08)
Survival Strategies and Adaptation in Insects (Hadjistylli 06-07)

Physical Science

Energy and Energy Conversion (Groves Group 07-08)
Energy: The Currency of Science (Goldman 09-10)
Energy, Energy Conversion and Efficiency (SEED group 08-09)
Heat Transfer: It's so cool! (ChemE 11-12)
How to Get Renewable Energy from the Sun (SEED 09-10) 
Light and the Electormagnetic Spectrum (Adam and Mariana 10-11)
Light and Waves (Schlegel 08-09)
Light Can Heat Too (Muren 07-08)
Light, Colors, Vision (Steedman 06-07)
Liquid Explorations with BLISS Volunteers (BLISS 10-11)
Matter: A Periodic Puzzle (Selle, Ngo 12-13)
Melting, Freezing and More! (Frechet Group 08-09)
Oobleck (Ellie Jung 10-11)
Optics and Light (Venugopalan 09-10)
Picture-Perfect Solar Energy (Alivisatos 09-10)
Properties of Matter that Matter (Bertozzi 09-10)
Reaction Reasoning (AXE Group 06-07)
Seeing is Believing? (Neuroscience 11-12)
Solids, Liquids and Gases (Klein 04-05)
States of Matter: Sublime Suds to Ice Cream Science (Francis 09-10)
Things That Glow (Raymond Group 06-07)
What is Color and how do we see it? (Colleen Kirkhart 11-12)
Where does Energy Come From? (SEED 09-10)

Fourth Grade

Earth Science

Dirt: Making Dirty Water Clean (Palucis 07-08)
Plate Tectonics (Moschetti 04-05)

Life Science

Composting Communities (Peter Beernik 10-11)
Food Webs Alive! (Entomology Group 08-09)
Microbe-Body (Edge Group 08-09)
Microorganisms: Good or Evil? (Doudna-Cate Group 08-09)
Survival on the Playground (Vos 09-10)
Why do animals migrate? (Frank 11-12)
Worms and Compost (Wong 08-09)
Worm Compost: Turning Waste into Soil (Steven Hall 11-12)
Wildfire (Kramer 12-13)
 

Physical Science

Fifth Grade

Earth Science

3rd Grape from the Sun (Nicholas McConnell 10-11) 
Air Pressure and You (Combs 09-10)
Air Pressure: Invisible, Powerful, Mysterious (Jackson 08-09)
Clouds Everywhere (Closser 11-12) 
Fluid Densities and Ocean Currents (adapted from SEED) (Philips and Ho 11-12)
Follow the River to Clean Waters (Penny 11-12)
Global Ocean Currents and Fluid Densities (SEED group 09-10)
The Power of Air Pressure (Bouvier-Brown 07-08)
Water in our Atmosphere: Make it Rain! (Cohen Lab 12-13) 
We Love Gravity! (Lehr, Hidrobo 12-13) 
Weather in a Bottle (Poon 07-08)
What's in your Water? (Venugopalan 11-12)

Life Science

Bones (Singer 07-08)
Bones, Muscles, and How We Move (Matt and Alec 10-11)
DNA (Peter Coppinger 03-04)
DNA Discovery (PMB: Jessica Rodrigues 10-11)
Feel Dead Brains (Berkeley Cognitive Science Student Association-CSSA 11-12)
A Field Trip Through the Digestive System (Ashmi, Jisella 12-13) 
Insect Physiology (ESO 09-10)
Plants Show Their True Colors (Steinbrenner 12-13)
Please Play with Your Food (Novak 08-09)
Remember This?: Neurons (Fischer, Olf 05-06)
Science of Respiration and Blood Circulation (Lee 06-07)
Physical Science

Sixth Grade - Earth Science

Alternative Energy (SEED 10-11)
Clipfish (Integrative Biology 09-10)
Mountain Building (Earth & Planetary Sciences 10-11)

Seventh Grade - Life Science

See Your Heart in Action: the EKG (Bioengineering 09-10)
Spring Mechanics (Bioengineering 10-11)

Eighth Grade - Physical Science

Solar Cells (Garnett and Grass 07-08)
Solar Winds (Fillingim & Yan 11-12)
Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos (Poon, Detwiler, Loach, Prior 07-08)

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