Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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
Grades:
8th Grade
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.
Grades:
3rd Grade
Students research Sonoran Desert animal adaptations and then combine them to form an animal that would thrive in our unique environment.
Grades:
6th Grade
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
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Where learning takes root and futures grow: This is the first lesson that was used for a project that took learning beyond the classroom and into the garden, where students gain hands-on skills
Grades:
1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade
In this lesson, students will learn how insects build sustainable homes and model the insect homes to design a settlement on Mars using the concept of biomimicry. In this lesson, the students will
Grades:
11th Grade
This includes my whole unit of a four week lesson on the Universe. I was quite fascinated with the amount of resources available for us from NASA and ESA to help teachers in keeping the students
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade
In this lesson, students will explore the cell membrane as the selective “gatekeeper” of the cell, regulating the movement of substances to maintain balance and homeostasis. Using both virtual reality
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade
In this interactive simulation, students explore the concept of carrying capacity by modeling changes in a deer population over 20 years. Using dice rolls and ecological scenarios, students apply
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is a 4-day unit on what forensic scientists do. Students will first conduct research on what a forensic scientist does and participate in extracting DNA. Then students will participate in a
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson introduces students to the logistic growth function as a model of population growth with limiting factors. Students will compare exponential and logistic growth, interpret key parameters
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about biomimicry—the design and production of materials, structures, and systems modeled on biological entities and processes. Students will explore examples of
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this lesson, students explore how scientists identify bacteria by analyzing the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. Through hands-on activities and bioinformatics tools, students learn the process of
Grades:
6th Grade
During the implementation of this lesson, students will have a great understanding of how we (humans) impact the world around us. Students will be able to understand how changes in an ecosystem's
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade
In this cross grade, multi-curricular three lesson mini-unit students will identify each part of a flower and its function as well as the necessities plants need to thrive. Students will observe the
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Explore genetic diversity and conservation with a hands-on activity simulating the bottleneck effect using black-footed ferrets as a case study. This lesson is Ideal for grades 6 and up.
Grades:
1st Grade
Students will develop and use models to explain how living things use resources to grow and survive; design and evaluate habitats for organisms using earth materials. Students will then experience how
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade
Students will be able to see the effects of cellular respiration (exhalation of carbon dioxide) in a state of rest as well as during a state of exercise and to correlate cellular respiration with
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade
How do the components in your food help / hinder cellular respiration? The purpose of this lesson is to understand the contents of our favorite foods and then understand what foods contain vitamin C
Grades:
1st Grade
This lesson focuses on animal habitats, as well as nonstandard unit measuring and data tables! The students will research an animal of their choice and identify what it needs in its habitat, as well
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Be a part of the humanitarian effort and teach students how to create a fully functioning 3D printed prosthetic arm for a client in need. This lesson walks you through the process in a slideshow
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade
Encouraging students, from a young age, to think about their interests, dreams and goals lets them see possibilities for the future. As students listen to their thoughts and put those thoughts into
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade
In this unit, students will identify what a shelter is and why we need it. Students will identify the different types of shelters and materials needed depending on climate and their surroundings
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Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
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