Life Science

This lesson is designed for 11 & 12th grade anatomy and physiology students. Students will design and execute a lab where they record their own electrical conduction system of the heart.

Students will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. After learning about the butterfly life cycle, students will engineer a butterfly out of various materials and make it fly without touching it.

This lesson is intended as a follow up to the Closer Look at Worms lesson. In this lesson, students explore the video creation platform, FlipGrid or alternative app, and make their own videos. They

Students will act as scientists who are tasked with designing and modeling a new plant that has special adaptations to help it survive in an extreme environment!

The emphasis of this lesson is for students to see that their heart rate will increase after 1 minute of jumping jacks because the cells need additional oxygen while exercising, making their heartbeat

Students will track and collect data on the growth of micro-greens. They will also make a time lapse animation of the growth of the micro-greens.

Biologists have noticed that the saguaro mortality rates have increased in Central and Southern Arizona. They don’t know why - but they have some ideas. In this unit, students will learn more about

Biologists have noticed that the saguaro mortality rates have increased in Central and Southern Arizona. They don’t know why - but they have some ideas. In this unit, students will learn more about

This is a lesson that shows how mutations can cause evolution and speciation. Students will also create graphs by using their data.