Grades:
5th Grade
This engaging lesson places an emphasis on how oil adversely affects the environment and animal habitats. Students complete a hands-on activity to replicate an oil spill and then develop a
Grades:
1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade
This lesson takes place over three hour-long, before- school STEAM club meetings. Students will discuss and learning about weather and climate. Then they will complete an engineering challenge to
Grades:
2nd Grade
In this food-related lesson, students use the engineering design process to create solar ovens and cook s'mores. They engage in critical thinking as they construct their design and test out the oven
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
This lesson plan includes ideas and materials centered on Mark Kelly's book Mousetronaut. The students will be discussing gravity and listening to the book. They will then be participating in an
Grades:
5th Grade
In this hands-on lesson, students code Edison robots to run races and play tug of war. They will run experiments, measure results, and graph the data. Videos and additional resources are included!
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade
This is lesson 4 out of a unit of 4 lessons about habitats. In the proceeding lessons, students researched habitats and animal adaptations. This lesson is a presentation of information using a variety
Grades:
5th Grade
Students will use the engineering design process to design, build, and test three different paper airplane designs. The goal will be to create one that can fly the fastest, one that can fly the
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:
3rd Grade
SUMMARY: This lesson challenges 3rd grade students to apply their knowledge of the physics of light by having them design, create, and test an obstacle course that their beam of light must navigate
Grades:
5th Grade
In this engaging and hands-on lesson, students will learn how crime scene investigators use science and engineering techniques and technology to solve crimes. Students will match substances based upon
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade
Make quadratics come alive with stomp rockets! This is a 3-4 hour learning experience where students will build and launch paper rockets, then use the data to create quadratic equations.
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
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My Very Own Game Controller
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
In this engaging lesson, students will design a working game controller using cardboard, conductive materials, and a Makey Makey. The product will coincide with students' prior knowledge of closed
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Edison Robot Challenges
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this hands-on lesson students review the Edison robot and coding in Edscratch. They will then work together to solve math problems and then code the Edison robot to match their solution to the math
Grades:
5th Grade
In this lesson, students comprehend basic physics concepts that are applicable to constructing a device that protects an egg from breaking when dropped. Team building and self-reflection are key
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This hands-on science lesson will help students get a more accurate view of the solar system by making a scale model with play dough, balloons, rulers, and tape!
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade
Students build the tallest beanstalk they can with the provided materials. They then measure it and compare their beanstalk heights. This pairs perfectly with a read aloud of Jack and the Beanstalk!
Grades:
3rd Grade
Students will tend to their garden boxes and observe the plants that are starting to grow. Students will take measurements and start a graph on growth throughout the growing cycle of their garden
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this meaningful lesson, students use creativity, imagination, and engineering skills to create a water conservation model that can be scaled up and used in a garden. Students are encouraged to
Grades:
1st Grade
In this hands-on lesson, students will listen to "The Water Princess" by Susan Verde and then create their own water filtration system in a small group. Students will consider questions like, "How can
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
This lesson is for 3rd-5th grade students to explore the concept of aquaponics and build a working aquaponics system.
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this hands-on lesson, students will consider what they think about several different closed systems. Then students will design and carry out investigations of living things to inform their closed
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:
3rd Grade
This lesson is the initial planning, sorting, and planting lesson to get Our Plot of Sunshine Curriculum started within a 3rd grade classroom. Can be modified for other grades, but math within this
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Treehouse Design
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
Students will research, design and build a treehouse using the engineering design process. They will practice budgeting by pretending to have $100 to spend by using a supply budget sheet. Students
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Space Case Chapters 1-7
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
This is the 2nd set of 4 lesson plans that correlate with the novel "Space Case" by Stuart Gibbs. This is a literature-inspired project base learning opportunity. The lessons include straw rockets
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Splash of Science
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Students measure the temperature of water as it cools to learn about heat transfer and thermal properties while using line of best fit, linear regressions and/or quadratic regressions.