Water

Students learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, creating a model and writing and defending a claim about humanity's ability to mitigate the problem.

Students will be able to describe what a climate zone is and describe how the distance from the equator impacts climate, describe the polar zone, mountain zone, temperate zone, and tropical zone

Agenda: What is water scarcity? Where does it occur? The Water Princess, Engineering a filter, Present, Exit Ticket. Students are experimenting on their own to find out which materials would make the

Students will learn about and create a wick hydroponics system. Materials and agenda is included in the lesson plan.

The students will be testing how the sun's energy is able to melt ice on different colors of plates. They will test which color will melt the ice the fastest and calculate the rate. Materials needed

This lesson allows students to understand the impact of an oil spill on animals in the wild. List of Materials: Motor oil Small containers Rubber gloves Cooking oil Water Three types of detergent Mild

Students will engineer a solar powered water fountain to show how energy transformed and transferred throughout their system. For this lesson, each group will need a solar water fountain, a plastic

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

Summary: This lesson is going to be designed to teach first graders about the different seasons and weather we experience. The lesson is based on the Northern Hemisphere weather/seasons experienced