Grades:
8th Grade
Students will review heredity and genetics using this lesson plan. Students will have an opportunity to explore generations, genetic variations, pedigrees and fitness using this lesson plan and PhET
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Most students are likely familiar with popular films like Happy Feet, Surf’s Up, Penguins of Madagascar, and classic books like Mr. Popper's Penguins. Capitalizing on this familiarity with penguins
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Students will use Gel Electrophoresis to diagnose the dominant, fatal, genetic disorder of Huntington's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an excessive number of CAG repeats in the DNA
Grades:
8th Grade
Students will learn about DNA base pairs. As a team they will send a student to read a sequence of DNA/RNA and will have their group duplicate or sequence the complimentary base pair. Students will
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade
This lesson is designed to uderstand the stages of mitosis by integrating Virtual Reality (VR) in the classroom. The students will be able to identify and describe the key events in each stage of
Grades:
9th Grade
This is a lesson plan for an activity that is used to teach meiosis. Students learn about various stages of meiosis and how it leads to variation.
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This STEM Argumentative Research Project engages students in exploring the scientific, ethical, and societal implications of themes in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Students will work in groups to
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade
This is a week-long set of lessons building on the structure and function of skin. The first few days will have students using technology to complete research. Students will also explore the
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade
This is a lesson that can be taught in 5 days or one week. The lesson was put together in collaboration with the Smithsonian Science Education Center. It talks about global goals (one of which is food
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Want to incorporate the Arts into your 7-12 STEM classroom? The Global Science Opera provides a way to do just that! Learn how to facilitate a STEAM collaboration with arts teachers to make it happen.
Grades:
8th Grade
In this fun and engaging lesson, students will use the ASU Monster Maker Game for a fun project that assesses students on dominant and recessive alleles, genotype, phenotype, Punnett Squares, and
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade
This project sets students up to explore animal anatomy and physiology with the idea of replacing a lost appendage (beak, leg, tail, fin, etc.) This is used in small groups of 2 or 3 over the course
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
The lesson plan goes beyond the conventional boundaries of art and science, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of these fields. Students will discover the synergies between art (A) and STEM
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is part 2 of a two-part series focused on the effects of grafting tomato plants to potato root stock in order to create "pomato" plants. This lesson is written for junior high students but can be
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson is designed to review key biology concepts with 9-10th grade students using hands-on activities with LEGO bricks. I usually implement this a week before our Final exams. Students will
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson introduces the students to what are antibiotics, how they work, and why they are important. At the same time, it also talks about how an organism becomes antibiotic resistant. The students
Grades:
8th Grade
In this lesson students will use everything they've done in parts 1-3 to analyze how mutations affect proteins. Students will build the mutated proteins that they sequenced in part 3. They will test
Grades:
8th Grade
In this lesson, students will be introduced to mutations in DNA. They will create beaded or illustrated "codes" to represent 5 different mutations to their original protein codes. These codes will be
Grades:
8th Grade
In this lesson students will continue to learn about protein synthesis. At the beginning of this lesson students should know that genes have the code to make proteins. Today they will be introduced to
Grades:
8th Grade
In this lesson students are introduced to the idea that DNA is the code to create proteins and that proteins can be structural or functional. Students are given a problem to create a model of a
Grades:
8th Grade
This lesson is designed around competition. Competition is a driving force behind natural selection. If something can survive to reproduce, the traits are passed on. Students will be completing
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade
The lesson targets high school students. It aims to impart a solid understanding of genetics and probability through hands-on activities featuring Wisconsin Fast Plants. Covering an introduction to
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is a junior high lesson on plant grafting that can be done in a classroom setting or with an after-school club such as botany. This lesson can be easily modified for any grade level. In this
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade
DNA, or Deoxyribonucleic Acid, is the molecule of life. DNA exists in every single organism, from the smallest bacteria to the largest mammal, and is the only known molecule that has the ability to