Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Students will learn about the TItanic, the mistakes the led to the sinking of the Titanic, and the resulting large loss of life from a STEM perspective. Students will evaluate the mistakes from a STEM
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade
This lesson is part of a school-wide project to renovate a greenhouse and create a native seed library. This lesson is intended to create intrinsic motivation to engage in the project. This lesson
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
Summary: This lesson is designed to introduce students to the engineering design process through designing and building a bridge that fulfills requirements and abides by constraints. Materials
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Students will create their own cookie cutters to fill a custom order in their bakery. They will need access to 3D design software like tinkercad and access to a 3D printer. It's even more fun when you
Grades:
6th Grade
Students explore the limiting factors of yeast over 2-3 days. The materials needed are yeast, sugar, water, ice, tea kettle, empty soda or water bottles, balloons, graduated cylinder, string, ruler
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This lesson teaches students how to get their drone into the air. It covers hovering, yaw, roll, and pitch. Before the students launch their drones there is a discussion about preparing the drones for
Grades:
10th Grade, 11th Grade
This is a 2 day lesson plan where a local contractor comes in and presents on building roofs and on snow load code. The second day is an activity where the students test out different slopes and
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
OBJECTIVES: Today we will analyze the relationship between rainfall and tree growth for your sample Today we will graphically model that relationship Today we will extend and reflect on the entire
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson, students will investigate the properties of a mixture, as if it were a contaminated soil sample near a stream. This activity will show students that heterogeneous mixtures can be
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:
10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson involves students calculating the density of various objects of differing sizes of the same substance. Each student group will need a balance, a ruler, and/or a graduated cylinder. They
Grades:
2nd Grade
Students are challenged to plan, design and build a structure of their choosing with the constraint that they can only use the materials they choose, no more, no less. List of Materials Students will
Grades:
8th Grade
OBJECTIVES: Today we will explore how biomes differ in different parts of the globe Today we will identify differences between biomes Today we will collaborate with our peers to gather environmental
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This hands-on science lesson will help students get a more accurate view of the solar system by making a scale model with play dough, balloons, rulers, and tape
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade
This lesson is an exploration of patterns in the students' environment. Hook: Display various patterns in nature (Can be from the book Patterns in Nature or the internet). Ask students to share what
Grades:
4th Grade
Students will: *Construct a model of a volcano. *Produce lava flows. *Observe, draw, record, and interpret the history and stratification of a volcano produced by the students. *Make the connection
Grades:
6th Grade
Using an interactive site (hhmi biointeractive) students answer how a species becomes invasive, analyze/interpret/create graphs showing population density/time and carrying capacity, and propose
Grades:
6th Grade
Students learn about and construct a food web of the sagebrush ecosystem. This is a 2 x 50 minute lesson with an additional 30 minutes for the computer simulation. Students work in small groups to
Grades:
6th Grade
Introductory lesson overview for a robotics afterschool session involving materials and equipment from VEX robotics and coding.
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Students will examine the surface of the Moon to consider hazardous conditions that NASA may find there. Then, they will investigate several hazards (dust, boulders, and slopes) and predict what kinds