L2: Organisms & Energy

This lesson is designed to introduce the concept of composting and its importance for sustainability and waste reduction. This lesson takes place in a classroom and school garden for two or more weeks

Students plant kidney beans, observe growth, and learn about plant needs and life cycles, fostering curiosity and understanding.

Using the website TeachingEngineering as a model along with their worksheets, students will create an oil spill and explore the current methods of cleaning it up. They will engineer a new method of

Continue the exploration of fungi and harvest the grown mushrooms in the classroom, build a model of a chosen mushroom type, taste test and record observations of harvested mushrooms and apply the

Explore the world of fungi by exposing students to how mushrooms grow, the differences between plants and fungi, growing mushroom examples in the classroom, dissecting various mushroom samples and

Students learn what an urban heat island is and why it is a problem, specifically for Phoenix, and the effect people have had on the environment that caused this problem. Students will design a

Students will obtain, evaluate and communicate data to explain the relationship between cellular respiration and the body systems used in exercise.

In this culminating project, students will construct a model demonstrating how plants need energy to survive and thrive, including air, water, certain temperature conditions, and sun energy. Students

Students will grow two plants, one control and one with a manipulated independent variable. Throughout the time the plant grows students will monitor the plants and make observations. They will also