CIC Lesson Archive

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

Kindergarten

Life Science
Animals Around the World (Domingo 06-07)
Build-a-Bug (Entomology Group 07-08)
Germs and Your Body (Alber Group 08-09)
Seeds (Plant and Microbial Biology Group 07-08)

Physical Science
Buoyancy: Who Sank the Boat? (Bioengineering 09-10)

First Grade

Life Science
All About Seeds (Okrent, Shurlach, Jones 07-08)
Ask A Tree How Old It Is (DeChant 06-07)
Build-a-Bug (Entomology Group 07-08)
Plant Parts (Hausmann 04-05)
Science and the Beanstalk (Schawel 08-09)
Turtles (Barnett and Begum 05-06)
You Are What You Eat: How Diet Shapes Teeth (Atteholt 09-10)

Physical Science
Does Air Really Exist? (Held 07-08)
Exploring States of Matter (Sarpong Group 08-09)
Mysterious Liquids
(Tilley Group 08-09)
Sailing Clips, Pepper Fish, Penny Drips: Buoyancy and Surface Tension (Fatehi 07-08)

Second Grade

Life Science
Biodiversity in Insects (Bennett 07-08)
Butterflies (Levinson 06-07)

Earth Science
Dirt On Soils (Farmer 05-06)
Fun With Fossils (Batavia 08-09)
Soil Isn't Dirty (Ryals 06-07)

Physical Science
Balloon Rocket Cars (Chemical Engineering group 08-09)
How to Make Things Fly
(Smythe 06-07)
Making the Band (BGESS group 08-09)
Observing Sound (Wijeyeratnam 03-04)
Sounds Like Science (Roberts 03-04)
What is Sound
? (Norman 03-04)
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)

Life Science
Aquatic Adaptation (Merzlyak 04-05)
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, Energy Conversion and Efficiency (SEED group 08-09)
Energy from the Sun (SEED group 08-09)
How to Get Renewable Energy from the Sun (SEED 09-10)
Light and Waves (Schlegel 08-09)
Light Can Heat Too (Muren 07-08)
Light, Colors, Vision (Steedman 06-07)
Melting, Freezing and More! (Frechet Group 08-09)
Optics and Light (Venugopalan 08-09)
Picture-Perfect Solar Energy (Alivisatos 09-10)
Properties of Matter that Matter (Bertozzi 09-10)
Reaction Reasoning (AXE Group 06-07)
Solids, Liquids and Gases (Klein 04-05)
States of Matter: Sublime Suds to Ice Cream Science (Francis 09-10)
Things That Glow: Fireflies (Sadtler 05-06)
Things That Glow (Raymond Group 06-07)
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
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)
Worms and Compost (Wong 08-09)

Physical Science
Balloons and Static Electricity (Paulick 07-08)
Electricity and Magnetism (Oldham 04-05)
Electricity Demonstrations (Fassett 08-09)
Energy: The Currency of Chemistry (Goldman 09-10)
Poles Apart: Electro-Magnetic Attraction & Repulsion (Jackson 09-10)
Sticky Balloons and Static Electricity (Paulick 08-09)
Zap, Crackle and Pop: Static Electricity Everywhere (Jackson 08-09)

Fifth Grade

Life Science
Bones (Singer 07-08)
Insect Physiology (ESO 09-10)
Please Play with Your Food (Novak 08-09)
Remember This?: Neurons (Fischer, Olf 05-06)
Science of Respiration and Blood Circulation (Lee 06-07)

Earth Science
Air Pressure and You (Combs 09-10)
Air Pressure: Invisible, Powerful, Mysterious
(Jackson 08-09)
Weather in a Bottle (Poon 07-08)

Physical Science
Acids and Bases: Cabbage Juice Indicator (Lee, Standly 04-05)
The Big Bang: Stardust and the Elements (Cupp 03-04)
Conductors and Insulators (Johnson 05-06)
Electricity and Food: Glowing Pickles (Garnett 06-07)
The Elements (Norton 06-07)
Elements of Life (Killilea 05-06)
Global Ocean Currents and Fluid Densities (SEED group 09-10)
Green Polymers (Sarpong 09-10)
Heat, Temperature, and the Jiggling of Molecules (Chu 08-09)
How Can You Tell One Gas from Another?
(Grass 06-07)
How to Think Like a Scientist (Bertozzi Group 08-09)
Measuring the World with Vernier Probes (Vigil 09-10)
Periodic Table of Students (Guillaudeu 04-05)
Plastics, Recycling & Composting (Chang 09-10)
The Power of Air Pressure (Bouvier-Brown 07-08)
Properties of Metals (Bergman Group 08-09)
Polymer Chemistry: More Than Just Plastics (Alivisatos Group 08-09)
Polymers All Over the Place (Prescher, Murphy 04-05)
The Race to Efficient & Clean Transportation Fuel (SEED 09-10)
What is Everything Made Of (Harvey 04-05)
What's that Smell? (Tsai 09-10)

Eighth Grade

Physical Science
Solar Cells (Garnett and Grass 07-08)
Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos (Poon, Detwiler, Loach, Prior 07-08)

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