Curricula
The Center offers a variety of quality materials for teachers to enhance science in their classrooms. And they're all free! Activities are hands-on, inquiry-based and multi-disciplinary, and are intended to engage students in the process of doing science. All of our content addresses the Sunshine Standards as well as the National Science Education Standards.
The material is designed with flexibility in mind: Teachers can use an entire curriculum or pick and choose among the various units or activities.
Elementary School
Science, Optics & You
This resource contains in-depth information on optics, from the nature of light and color to how microscopes work. This curriculum offers teachers many activities to use with their students as well as an extensive Web site. The site contains science history, interactive tutorials, dozens of images captured through microscopes, explanations of how lighthouses and other optical tools work and much more.
Comet Tales
Launched in Spring 2006 and adapted from NASA lesson suggestions, Comet Tales features hands-on classroom demonstrations and curriculum materials. The unit may be downloaded as one large PDF file or in smaller sections:
Middle and High School
Isotope Revolution
Designed for high school students, this curriculum explores how scientists use isotopes to find out more about rocks and other artifacts from the Earth (or the solar system), such as age, where it came from and how it was formed. Featuring activities and teacher instructions, Isotope Revolution covers topics such as beta and alpha decay, carbon-14 and the half-life of atoms.
Project MagLab Recertification
These pages offer lots of ideas and material for middle and high school teachers seeking recertification. Teach your students how to squeeze electricity out of a lemon or how to discover the relationship between magnetism and temperature.
Classroom Outreach
