Animals have been known to adapt to the world around them, but why does this happen? Students will discover that natural selection leads to the adaptation of traits in animals.

Learning Objectives

(HS-LS4-4 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity) Students will construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural selection leads to adaptation of populations.

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There is a bird, decayed plants, a worm, and a fox. How does that food chain work? Study different types of predators and prey, consumers, producers, and decomposers and determine what food chains, and even more complex food webs, look like in the real world!

Learning Objectives

(5-LS2) Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

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Builders create things and bulldozers take them apart. In this lesson, students will have the chance to become both! They will use materials to build a structure, deconstruct it, and then use those same materials to build a second structure.

Learning Objectives

(2-PS1-3 Matter and Its Interactions) Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.

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Let’s have a photosynthesis party! In this lesson, students will learn the steps of photosynthesis and how it converts light energy into chemical energy. Students will have a “party” while creating models in small groups.

Learning Objectives

(NGSS-HS-LS1-5 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes) Students will use a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.

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Volume is math, isn’t it? Well, math and science come together in this lab where students will figure out the volume of pennies with a hands-on activity.

Learning Objectives

(MS-PS3-1) Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to identify linear and nonlinear relationships.

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How’s the weather up there? Students will track the weather over the course of one month in order to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. Here’s the catch… they will use tables and graphs to do so!

Learning Objectives

(3-ESS2-1) Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

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Rough, smooth, flat, brown. These words are all attributes you could use to describe a rock. In this lesson students will be going on a rock hunt as they learn about describing rocks using attributes.

Learning Objectives

• (2-PS1-1 Matter and Its Interactions) Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
• Summarize the physical properties of Earth materials, including rocks, minerals, soils, and water that make them useful in different ways.

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Many times students don’t realize the chemical reactions that occur with foods that they eat. In this lesson the students will participate in an experiment that will provide them an opportunity to observe the light that is produced from chewing candy in the dark.

Learning Objectives

(ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1) Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding f the text as a whole.

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Engineers, we need you! Take your skills to modeling or creating models using technology to build a simple molecule. Students will then extend knowledge with critical thinking questions.

Learning Objectives

(MS-PS1-1) WALT develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules.

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In this lesson, students will work in groups to research the effects of electromagnetic radiation when it is absorbed by matter at different frequencies. Students will additionally search through articles found on the internet to find valid and reliable information.

Learning Objectives

(HS-PS4-4 Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer) Students will evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.

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