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Penguin Protectors: Understanding Climate Change, Math, Properties of Water, Conservation of Matter and Teamwork with Penguins

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

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Habitats Natural Selection Climate Change

Energy Source Infographic

Grades: 4th Grade, 6th Grade

Students learn about renewable and nonrenewable energy sources using a free resource. They are assigned a particular resource such as solar, coal, biomass ,etc. and they become an expert on that

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Energy Canva

Circuits Scrutiny - Part 2

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

A high school physics lesson plan asking students to use guided inquiry and discover how current moves through series and parallel circuits. Students then share their results by using technology to

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Circuits

Circuit Scrutiny - Part 1

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

A high school physics lesson plan that uses guided inquiry to help students explore the changes in potential difference across resistors connected in series & parallel.

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Circuits Parallel Resistors

My Drone and Me: Getting to Know Your Controls

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

In this lesson students will broaden their understanding of their drone controls learning the proper terminology and practice using that vocabulary flying mini obstacle courses as a Pilot/Co-Pilot duo

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Drones

Microscopy

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

In studying science, we are limited by the bounds of our own senses when collecting data. By developing technology that allows us to enhance and extend our senses, we can study things we would not

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Microscopes Scale Cells

I'm Too Hot to Learn

Grades: 7th Grade

Human cells function best within a specific temperature range. Recent scientific data has shown that extreme high temperatures can have detrimental effects on our cells. In fact, repeated exposure to

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Cells Climate Change Human Body Research

Diagnosing Huntington's Disease Using Gel Electrophoresis

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

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Disease Human Body

Desert Flora and Natural Dye

Grades: 5th Grade

Students will explore the history and processes of using natural dyes, focusing on Sonoran desert flora. They will use examples from colonial times from colonists as well. They will investigate how

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Natural Dyes Ecology