The "Solar-Powered Water Purification System" lesson is an engaging and hands-on STEM experience for 4th-grade students. In this lesson, students explore the importance of clean water and learn how
Explore temperature and weather with students. Teachers will guide students through this graphing and research activity. The unit opens with a literacy component, Global Warming with Seymour Simon
This is a fourth-grade level Science lesson over the rock cycle: what is it? What are the three major types of rocks? What is a rock? There is a STEM challenge that can be integrated into fourth grade
Students will engage in a phenomena based lab in which they simulate relative dating of sedimentary rocks, an earthquake and volcanic eruption. In the lab, students will see how the layers at the
In this set of lesson plans that go with the novel A Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly, students will focus on glaciers. Activities include size of icebergs, melting glaciers and water levels, along
This is the second lesson of four in a native plant garden design challenge. In this lesson, students will learn about what watersheds are and then take a tour of the school campus looking at it
This is the first lesson in a set of four where students work to design a native plant garden using rainwater harvesting principles. In this first lesson, students learn about the ongoing water crisis
This is an engaging STEAM lesson where students can learn about the eight different biomes on Earth and create a creature that has successfully adapted to live in one of the biomes.
Students will examine the Gold King Mine spill on the Animas River in Colorado before creating a model watershed in order to develop an explanation of human impacts to Earth's systems.
Students use Google Earth Timelapse to observe changes to glaciers over time before completing an investigation on the effects of melting sea ice and land ice on global sea level rise.
This is a phenomena based lesson where students will create a model to demonstrate the earth’s rotation during each season to investigate the change in light during the seasons
This is a solar panel investigation lesson using mini solar panels from Agrivoltaics Kits provided from U of A. Students will investigate how the direction and angle impacts voltage output.
Create, label, and observe the water cycle in your classroom with this easy project. Students can view each step in the water cycle one time or it can be used for an extended period of time for
In Arizona, rain a major component of the water cycle, is a precious and vital. Students will gain an understanding of the three phase of watrer on the earth: solid, liquid and gas and the four stages
Students will work together to create a skyscraper using different types of materials. This activity aims to see how the shaking movements of the ground, called seismic waves, affect the skyscraper
Students get to discover the relationship between solutes and solvents in relation to concentration. As an inquiry based lab, students will mix their own concentrations of Kool-Aid or other powdered
This lesson gives a hands-on way of teaching the 2nd law of motion. Students are able to experiment with different objects with different masses to discover how mass affects force and acceleration.
In this lesson the students will explore the formation of rocks as the result of the flow of energy and cycling of matter within Earth.
This project takes place over approximately 10 days (2 weeks), 60 minutes per day. Students work in groups to cook in a solar oven, but parts of the project can be done individually as well. Students
This lesson takes place in the classroom for 2 one-hour sessions. Students analyze body fossil evidence and write conclusions about an organism. Students look at fossilized bones of animals and
Wildfires are a huge issue in Arizona during the dry season as there is plenty of dry fuel and very little water. Once an area has been devastated by fire, it is further destroyed by summer monsoons
In this lesson students will explore paper as a recyclable material. They will explore its effects on the environment. Students will make a project with recycled paper and develop a understanding of
Students will learn the factors that cause climate change. They will learn that the increase in temperature can affect human populations.
This lesson has students watching a baby plant and seeing what it will grow into. Students are able to compare the seedling with an adult plant, and determine how the plant cycles from seed to adult