Science

Multi-week cross-curricular project combining STEM, cultural studies, history, and ELA, culminating in cultural exchange, podcast style reflections, photo/video sharing/storytelling, and an experience

Students will learn about the parts on their head, how they help their five senses, and how to say it in Apache. Students will also practice their measuring skills in order to measure their head.

Students will be extracting DNA from strawberries to help them understand DNA and its role in heredity and inheritance. Students will also practice math skills and compare data.

The central activity involves students working in small groups to plan and produce a short stop motion film. The driving question for the lesson is, "How can we tell a story using only pictures and

Students will become solar engineers, using science and math to turn a simple pizza box into a functional, heat-trapping oven. They will use their knowledge of energy transfer and the Engineering

Students research Sonoran Desert animal adaptations and then combine them to form an animal that would thrive in our unique environment.

This lesson uses taste-testing as a way to introduce and practice science and math practices, including observing, recording, predicting, writing a claim with evidence and reasoning. I have used it

In this lesson, students learn about sediment classifications and develop a model for how sediments are sorted during deposition. Armed with this knowledge, students then gather dirt with favorable

Students will use leaf disks punched out of spinach leaves and a syringe to demonstrate the production of oxygen to determine the rate of photosynthesis. Once an initial rate is determined, students