Grades:
6th Grade
In this lesson students will identify different types of sustainable housing, engage in depth learning with hands on experience of what it takes to build a home from the outside to the inside
Grades:
5th Grade
This lesson uses magnets, playing cards, metal washers, and a PhET simulation to model the effects of mass and distance as acting forces on objects in our solar system.
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade
In this lesson, students will embark on an investigative journey to explore the geological history of their local community. Through hands-on activities and research, students will analyze rock layers
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This lesson is intended to expose students to information about environmental changes and how solar energy affects living things. Students are challenged to design and build a shelter for a dog to
Grades:
10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
A look at all of the anatomy homeostatic responses that the body has. Each section has a lab or calculations.
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade
Students use Play-Doh to model deposition of rock layers and then folding and faulting. This is to help students understand relative ages of rock layers and introduces the ideas of the laws of
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Lesson 4 culminates the series on electricity with the Electric House Project, where students apply their knowledge to design, construct, and wire a model house that meets specific electrical
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Lesson 3 in this series focuses on hands-on engagement with electrical circuits using the EUDAX Physics Science Lab Learning Circuit Kit. Students will construct both simple and complex circuits
Grades:
7th Grade
Part 4! Students take all that they have learned from all the parts along with observations of their rocket launch to create a detailed google slides presentation!
Grades:
7th Grade
Part 3 of the Unit. Students launch their rockets and record observations along with altitude data!
Grades:
5th Grade
In this lesson, students will work individually to build a working periscope. They will make a simple one out of card stock and then being creative with whatever supplies their teacher gives them
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Students will combine science and art by using an alternative photographic process called cyanotypes or sun prints. After a short introduction to the history of cyanotypes and the process of creating
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson is an opportunity for students to learn about the past, the interesting field of nuclear radiation, and future implications to humanity as we encounter it in our spaces.
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This is a lesson plan which draws importance to the ability of trees to carbon sequester in urban areas. As the world urbanizes more and more each day, it is important for our health to emphasize
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade
An Arizona 3rd grade standard is to learn about Arizona tribes' ways of living and how they depend on their environment to shape their world. In this hands-on lesson, students will use their hands
Grades:
6th Grade
In this engaging lesson, students will use an online planetarium and participate in a kinesthetic model activity in order to develop and revise a model explaining the apparent motion of the stars in
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade
This is part of an Ecology Unit, where students will create a food web using a set of cards. Students will identify the organisms in the different trophic levels, create a series of food chains, then
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this engaging lesson, students will delve into the fascinating world of energy transfer and efficiency by designing and building their own solar-powered devices. Through hands-on activities
Grades:
4th Grade
This engaging lesson explores electrical energy/currents, the engineering design process, and coding (picture, block, and python) with LEGO robots! Students will code their robots to navigate an
Grades:
4th Grade
This lesson explores light energy, hydroponics, and metric measurement conversions (mm, cm, m). Students will identify the ways that different colors of light energy can affect plant growth. They will
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade
This lesson is about the Petrified Forest National Park here in Arizona. It teaches students about the National Park. It also has a lab showing students how things like wood become petrified!
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Over the course of three class sessions, spanning 90 minutes each, students will engage in an immersive project focusing on the outdoor air quality prevalent in four states situated in the
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Planarian Regeneration
Grades:
3rd Grade
In this engaging lesson, students will explore human regenerative medicines through the planarian's ability to regenerate. Planarians have specials cells that allow themselves to modify and regrow
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
What would you do if you were dropped into the wilderness, with nothing but what you could fit into a backpack, and had to survive harsh weather, a hostile location, and possibly aggressive wildlife