Grades:
5th Grade
Students work together to design a water filtration system to separate pollutants from water. This lesson takes about 120 minutes to complete. Materials include: Polluted Water: Pour 1 cup of water
Grades:
5th Grade
This is the first lesson of a 4 part unit on balanced and unbalanced forces. Students use the skills they have already been taught to apply them to a real world situation involving rockets. You will
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Students become engineers and create a modified adaptive device after disassembling and assembling eyewear and creating a new adaptive device
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This middle school lesson covers the concept of air resistance. Students work in teams of 3 with a list of materials to design, build, and test 3 parachutes that will maximize the air resistance of a
Grades:
8th Grade
Explore scientific notation by traveling through the universe. Students will try to place objects in the universe in order from smallest to largest by using pictures, names and numbers in scientific
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade
This lesson plan focuses around 4 key topics, with activities for each. The plan covers renewable energy, solar energy, why solar energy is important, and what the children can do to conserve energy
Grades:
10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson plan includes activities for a full unit on Fission and Fusion, which are included in our state science standards. Students will create models of fusion and fission using a free online
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
Summary: Students will design and create a model of a flowering plant that correctly displays its external structure. Materials: Straws, toothpicks, felt, paper, string, wooden skewers, modeling clay
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade
Overview of the challenge: To design a safety device (car/seatbelt) that can keep an egg (passenger) safe during a collision. The goal is to protect the egg from cracking during a roll down the ramp
Grades:
5th Grade
Summary: This lesson is a precursor to subsequent lessons comparing how garden growing techniques determine plant growth/production. Students will be activating prior knowledge in the life sciences
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
The objective of this lesson is simply to introduce students to vermicomposting by explaining what it is and getting our bins set up. In 60 minutes, you will be able to discuss: What is recycling
Grades:
6th Grade
To demonstrate their understanding of how energy is passed throughout an ecosystem and the symbiotic relationships of organisms within an ecosystem, students construct a food web marble run. This
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
This lesson is for 3rd-5th grade students to explore the concept of aquaponics and build a working aquaponics system.
Grades:
5th Grade
Students will create a simple machine they will use to retrieve objects through a makeshift storm drain. Materials include: Literature Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, Ch 10 Rats or Worse Goes in
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
An alternative way of farming to encourage people in a community that does not have agricultural land. Vertical farming is often a suggested solution for urban gardening and farming.
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
A lesson plan for building alternative way of farming/gardening (Hydroponics), to encourage the community to do gardening/farming in non-agricultural area.
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
The objective for this assignment is to use creativity, imagination, and engineering skills to create a water conservation model that can be scaled up and used in a garden. Our theme with this unit is
Grades:
3rd Grade
Students will read Rosie Revere, Engineer to lay the foundation for what it means to fail forward and what it takes to be an engineer. Then, students will get to practice their own engineering skills
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson students review the Edison robot and coding in Edscratch. They will then work together to solve math problems and then code the edison robot to match their solution to the math