Life Science

This is a high school level project that covers food webs, nutrition cycling, and human intervention in ecosystems. This gives students a hands-on, real-world look at a water system in their backyard.

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 in this engaging lesson.

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

In this exciting 5th grade science lesson, students will delve into the microscopic world using microscopes and explore the field of nanotechnology. The lesson begins with an engaging introduction to

Continue the exploration of fungi and harvest the grown mushrooms in the classroom with this engaging lesson! Students will build a model of a chosen mushroom type, taste test and record observations

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

In this hands-on lesson, students will obtain, evaluate and communicate data to explain the relationship between cellular respiration and the body systems used in exercise.