Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is an 8-lesson unit that is designed to be used together to learn about the health and diversity of your local watershed by placing leaf packs into a water source (natural or man-made ponds
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this engaging lesson, students use LEGOs to create a working seismograph. Included are all the materials you will need, video links, a pre and post assessment and rubric. Students will enjoy this
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this engaging lesson, students will examine the surface of the Moon to consider hazardous conditions that NASA may find there. Then, they will investigate several hazards (dust, boulders, and
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is an 8-lesson unit that is designed to be used together to learn about the health and diversity of your local watershed by placing leaf packs into a water source (natural or man-made ponds
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is an 8-lesson unit that is designed to be used together to learn about the health and diversity of your local watershed by placing leaf packs into a water source (natural or man-made ponds
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is an 8-lesson unit that is designed to be used together to learn about the health and diversity of your local watershed by placing leaf packs into a water source (natural or man-made ponds
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade
This is an introductory lesson designed for a robotics after-school session involving materials and equipment from VEX robotics and coding. Students explore robotics, discuss the tasks robots can
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson students will be introduced to the Edison Robot and coding. They will work collaboratively to code a program in EdScratch for Edison to complete. Students will work together to test and
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Building on the programming concepts explored in part 1, this lesson asks students to re-imagine the ‘spiral-out’ program to be a spiral-in program instead. Designed to be a stepping-stone activity to
Grades:
6th Grade
Students will be thinking like engineers as they design their marble roller coasters using the principles of kinetic and potential energy.
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