Animal Adaptations/Camouflage – 4609
Summary To explore animal adaptations in collaborative groups using 21st century skills. Students will use different styles of research such as books, databases, and online …
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Element Survivor
Summary What elements do we need to survive? Element Survivor was designed to provide students with the opportunity to answer that very question. Students individually …
Transportation Second Grade Style – 4158
Summary Students were presented with a design challenge that required them to access previously learned knowledge about communities, specifically transportation. They worked collaboratively to design …
Becoming Animal Experts – 4151
Summary Our class first met to identify what students already knew about animals and to outline what they would like to discover about them. Students …
Rock the Ages: The Journey – 5078
Summary Rock the Ages: The Journey is a creative, open-ended, collaborative project that challenged students with conceptualizing “the journey” of a rock travelling through …
The Organelle Show and Tell – 4457
Summary In this lesson, the students posed as cell designers, under the pretense of their design being mass-produced to repair damaged vegetable harvests. In collaborative …
We Rock! A Sedimentary Design Brief- 4159
Summary As a way for students to deepen their knowledge and understanding for the concepts of earth’s structure and sedimentary rocks, students were required to …
Black Out!
Summary After completing a unit on electricity, students experimented with a kit called Enviro Battery by Green Science to make lemon batteries, a potato-powered clock, …
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s MATTER SUPER HEROES!
Summary The students have been studying the SOL 5.4 Matter. The students worked in groups to develop life-size super heroes who represent atoms, elements, molecules, …
Put Me In The Zoo
Summary Students have been asked to create habitats for a new zoo that is opening in their community. Each group of students has been asked …