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Lesson #1

Name of Site:  Science NetLinks

Link: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=11&DocID=385

Name of Lesson:  Systems of the Human Body

I liked the way this lesson was broken up, it had a section for motivating students, how to assess them, purpose and extensions on ways to relate or carry it over to other subjects.  I like and will use this lesson plan because it is really easy to understand and would not be stressful for the students, because it is well structured.  I like this lesson plan because it would be great to do the day before a lab, or review for a test.  This site has a cool web qust that goes along with it, that has a game where you put the body parts where they belong.  I thought that it was cool that in the begining of th e lesson it addresses what students should already know, and activities for upper level students.  The game is really cool and you can find that at the e sheet link, I played it for a litte while and the comments and voice made me laugh so I am sure it would do the same for the students. 

On that website:  Science NetLinks

Summary and Review:  This website has a ton of lesson plans for science broken into different topics for science.  The neat thing was that if you just wanted to look through all thier lesson plans, you could just scroll down the list to the grade and topic and there were symbols beside each lesson which told you if it was hands on, worksheets, book work or internet. 

Lesson #2

Name of Site:  Discovery School

Link: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/thebigwet/

Name of Lesson:  The Big Wet

Summary of Lesson:  This is an hands on lesson which allows students to map out the twelve differnt limates found around the world.  It has the students looking at and comparing the different types of climates around the world.  I like that it also uses the three, two, one rubric to assess what each student has learned from doing the project.  This lesson also gives the standards and objectives that are involved in it.  The vocabulary that the students would be using are found on the site in a way that you can listen to how to say them as well as the difinition.  It also gives the links needed to use with this lesson.  Overall, I would say that this is a well written and easy to use lesson. 

Summary of Site:  The Discovery School site is unique becasue it has all sorts of lesson plans sorted out by the different topics in science.  It is very useful all round and not just for lesson plans.