Lesson Plans

Lesson plans designed by the participants in the LASSI workshop, by topic and grade level. Template lesson plan available here, and template poster here.

Elementary School

  • CO2 Vehicle (elementary, .docx, .pdf, credit: Lisa Pingrey)
  • Measuring the Crab Nebula's Expansion (grades 3-5, .docx, .pdf, credit: ShiAnne Kattner)
  • Light (grades 2-5, .docx, .pdf, credit: ShiAnne Kattner)
  • Determining the Mystery Planet (grades 4-5, .docx, .pdf, credit: ShiAnne Kattner)
  • Solar System Model - version 1 (grade 5, .docx, .pdf, credit: Sam Kramer)
  • Solar System Model - version 2 (grade 3, .docx, .pdf, credit: Sam Kramer)
  • Making a Path to Mars (grade 4, .docx, .pdf, credit: Dea Kobbe)
  • Angles, Degrees, and Protractors (grade 4, .docx, .pdf, credit: Dea Kobbe)
  • Locating a Constellation (grade 4, .docx, .pdf, credit: Stephanie McKinney)
  • Stars (grade 4, .docx, .pdf, credit: Stephanie McKinney)
  • Constellation Viewer (grade 6, .docx, .pdf, credit: Heather Dryden)
  • Moon Phases (grade 6, .docx, .pdf, credit: Heather Dryden)
  • Snapshot Serengeti (grades 1-4, .pptx, credit: Dea Kobbe, Stephanie McKinney, Sandy Dalles, and Shawn Green)
  • Species Biodiversity in the Serengeti (grades 4-7, .pptx, credit: Pam Frazier and Kali Nicholas)
  • What is Your Code? Robot Turtles and Coding (grades 1-4, .docx, credit: Dea Kobbe)
  • Coding: Happy Maps (grades 1-4, .docx, credit: Shawn Green)
  • Coding: Robot Turtles (grades 1-4, .pptx, credit: Stephanie McKinney)

Junior High / Middle School

  • Powers of 10 (grades 5-8, .docx, .pdf, credit: Pam Frazier)
  • Recognizing Graphs (grades 5-8, .docx, .pdf, credit: Pam Frazier)
  • Crab Crawl (.zip with multiple files, credit: Scott Mecca)
  • Galactic Pancake (.zip with multiple files, credit: Scott Mecca)
  • Discovering Exoplanets Using Photometry (grades 5-12, .pptx, credit: Scott Mecca)
  • Analyzing Sunspots (grades 6-7, .pptx, credit: Sam Kramer)
  • Detecting All Known Asteroids (Middle and HS, .pptx, credit: Jake Schell and Christy Belardo)
  • Species Biodiversity in the Serengeti (grades 4-7, .pptx, credit: Pam Frazier and Kali Nicholas)
  • Fire Beetle Ecology (Middle and HS, .docx, credit: Christy Belardo and Kali Nicholas)
  • Go Logo: NetLogo and Programming (grades 4-7, .pptx, credit: Pam Frazier

High School

  • Celestial Sphere and Rotational Geometry (HS, .docx, .pdf, credit: Joe Meyer)
  • Electromagnetic Spectrum and Spectroscopy (HS, .docx, .pdf, credit: Lisa Pingrey)
  • Finding an Function for Supernova SN1987a's Expansion (HS, .docx, .pdf, credit: Joe Meyer)
  • Inverse Square Law with Lasers (grades 10-12, .docx, .pdf, credit: Monte Else)
  • Parallax and Trigonometry (grades 10-11, .docx, .pdf, credit: Monte Else)
  • Data analysis for finding planets (HS, .pptx, credit: AJ McKittrick)
  • Asteroid Zoo (HS, .pptx, credit: Susan Robinson and Michelle Mason)
  • Discovering Exoplanets Using Photometry (grades 5-12, .pptx, credit: Scott Mecca)
  • Hypothesis Testing and Asteroids (grades 11-12, .pptx, credit: Joe Meyer)
  • How Do Astronomers Find Planets? (grades 11-12, .pptx, credit: Monte Else)
  • Detecting All Known Asteroids (Middle and HS, .pptx, credit: Jake Schell and Christy Belardo)
  • Fire Beetle Ecology (Middle and HS, .docx, credit: Christy Belardo and Kali Nicholas)
  • NetLogo: Graphing, Trig, and Coding (grades 11-12, .docx, credit: Monte Else)