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The Koshland Science Museum offers a unique, standards-based approach to science
education. Whether you are planning to visit the science museum or looking for activities to
use in your classroom, our science activities will engage and challenge your students to think
critically about scientific issues. Our website includes free lesson plans and class activities to
support middle school science and high school science curriculum.
SEARCH TEACH AND LEARN ACTIVITIES
Koshland-Designed Science Education Activities
VISIT THE KOSHLAND
Field Trip
A classroom visit to the Koshland is a unique science education experience. The museum can
accomodate groups of different sizes and offers an in-depth experience lead by master teachers. School groups can choose to focus class activities on the entire science
museum or specialize with a field trip focused on climate change or infectious disease.
Students are engaged and challenged during their visit.
LIGHTS AT NIGHT
WebQuest
Concerns about global warming have made energy use a major issue around the world. View satellite images and discover how several countries use energy and how much light they give off at night. See first hand how personal, national, and global decisions can impact the future of climate change.
Visitors explore the Lights at Night
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
WebQuest
Bird flu - or avian influenza - has been a hot topic in the news. In this Koshland-designed science webquest, high school or undergraduate students make recommendations to the public or policy makers about how Americans should handle the potential arrival of an avian influenza epidemic.
How will your students decide to handle the bird flu?
GLOBAL WARMING
WebQuest
Using this Internet-based webquest activity, students will learn about climate change, energy use, and global warming. They will be challenged to make better decisions regarding the complicated issues surrounding climate change and global warming.
Students explore internet resources on global warming.
HOW DO ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS WORK?
Classroom Activity
Just 25 years since it was first reported, HIV/AIDS has become one of the world's major public health crises. Working in small groups, students will examine the HIV life cycle and determine how to control the spread of the infection.
Students consider how drugs can halt the HIV lifecycle.
CONTROLLING HIV PANDEMIC
Classroom Activity
More than 39 million people are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, mostly in developing countries. Students will investigate data on HIV prevelance and describe public health measures to control the spread of the disease.
World Health Organization data is used in this activity.
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP
Field Trip
While a field trip visit to the Koshland Science Museum is an ideal way to learn about global warming and infectious disease, students can use the same interactive resources found in the museum by participating in a on-line Virtual Field trip.
Students use virtual exhibits in class or at home.
GENETIC DISEASE
WebQuest
Students take on different roles to learn about DNA and genetic diseases, including how a genetic disease causes a person to get sick, how we test for and treat a genetic disease, and how we help people to make better decisions regarding all the complicated issues involved with genetic diseases.
Genetic testing and disease are explored in this activity.
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