How do I come up with lesson plans, ideas, demos, labs, etc.?
Your first option is to use your own brain. Using what you have learned in college in both your education and science course should be enough to get started. If strapped for time or uncreative, here are some other suggestions. The internet can answer this whole question. There are numerous sites that supply lesson plans free of charge categorized by subject area (see, e.g., one site called Education World. Other sites that have science-related lesson plans include www.accessexcellence.org, www.lessonstop.com, and www.discovery.com. Ideas can be found in various places, such as the internet (www.teachingtips.com) or any teacher’s edition textbook. A glance at a teacher’s edition of Biology Principles and Explorations (Johnson and Raven 1996) provides many interesting ideas for lessons as well as a supplement book containing labs and demos. The teacher’s edition of almost all science textbooks for secondary education provide a wide array of activities (doing, calculating, thinking, writi
