Life Science

In this lesson, students will learn about rate through their lettuce seeds in our hydroponic machine. Students use an Excel spreadsheet to document their findings.

In this lesson students model the process of speciation using Skittles. As they work through the story, students see how changing geography can change the traits in a species and how over time these

This lesson uses the children’s book The Seed and the Giant Saguaro to teach about plant and wildlife habitat in the Sonoran Desert. It includes story reading, discussion, a field experience, writing

This lesson will explore how bees are essential to plant life and, therefore, human life. Students will learn about how social bees work together. They will also investigate why some bee populations

This is part 2 of a Heredity lesson. In this portion of the lesson the students will work in collaborative pairs to mate the dragons the created in part 1. Furthermore, they will create Punnett

In part 1 of this lesson, students will use the laws of heredity to create a dragon based on the random toss of a coin. A chart has been created to assign genotypes and the corresponding phenotypes

In this engaging lesson, students study and design a healthy fish tank with a variety of animals. Students also learn about budgeting costs.

In this engaging lesson, students will walk through the steps of the engineering design process as they use their creativity to use technology to create an Arizona animal and habitat to share with a

This lesson combines ELA/STEM lesson for 2nd grade. It's great to use with "Mr. Popper's Penguins" or any other units related to penguins. During this design challenge, students will build an iceberg