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Here you'll find short, lively activities to focus your class trip, or full-period lessons to integrate into your yearly curriculum. Dive in!
Highlights
Students will explore tectonic plate boundaries and different types of seismic waves generated by earthquakes.
Could you describe the kelp forest food web as a system?
Investigate why flowers have different shapes and colors.
How does the finite amount of carbon on this planet move around in the environment, from one place to another?
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6th Grade - 10th Grade
Practice rapid ideation—an important step in design thinking—by brainstorming solutions to food systems issues.
4th Grade - 12th Grade
By conducting a survey of an outdoor environment, students will design solutions for preventing marine debris.
1st Grade - 12th Grade
By sorting our waste into different bins, we can make a huge impact.
3rd Grade - 8th Grade
Learn about reptiles and discover adaptations that help snakes and lizards survive in their environments.
4th Grade - 8th Grade
Want to play a board game to learn about rock formation? Explore geologic processes, fast and slow.
5th Grade - 11th Grade
How does the digestive system of a zebra differ from that of a buffalo?
3rd Grade - 12th Grade
Students peruse sample pages from the notebooks of many different scientists.
3rd Grade - 12th Grade
Lay the foundation for sketching by explicitly teaching the following techniques.