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Here you'll find short, lively activities to focus your class trip, or full-period lessons to integrate into your yearly curriculum. Dive in!
Highlights
In this classic activity, students trace allele frequencies in a population through many generations of bunnies.
What animals did your barn owl eat this week? Observe the bones it swallowed to identify its prey!
Do you know the relative sizes of the planets in our solar system? Put yourself to the test with some Play-doh.
You can make and test predictions using the simplest of invertebrates.
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3rd Grade - 8th Grade
Anoushka Takla's fourth graders seek to answer the question: "What happens to our trash over time?"
5th Grade - 8th Grade
Erica Katz's fifth graders seek to answer the question: "Why does the moon look different on different days?"
3rd Grade - 8th Grade
Explore the amazing diversity of plants, animals, and ecosystems that are found on the continent of Africa!
6th Grade - 12th Grade
Create a change in air pressure using a garbage bag and vacuum cleaner, and then create a model to explain!
4th Grade - 8th Grade
In this role-playing skit your students will describe the various processes of the water cycle in the Amazon.
6th Grade - 12th Grade
With a few guidelines and some innovation, we can design spaces to have sufficient light and be energy-efficient
3rd Grade - 8th Grade
Trek through the Aquarium to observe and describe animals surviving in both aquatic and desert environments.
4th Grade - 6th Grade
Investigate how well different materials block sunlight Then, create art inspired by the science behind it all!