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Waste Management
Students set up a recycling program in their school. They first estimate the kinds and amount of trash generated and brainstorm ways to reuse the recyclables and create flyers explaining how their program will work at the school.
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Wildlife in Arkansas
First graders identify three species of wildlife in Arkansas. They discuss the environment in which the whitetail deer, raccoon, and beaver live in. They identify the footprints of each animal and discuss how the animals are harvested...
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Diversity Walk
Students take a walk around the school grounds to discover the diversity of life that exists there.
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Roger Brown
Students examine and discuss the use of symmetry in a painting by the artist Roger Brown. They draw a geometric shape, divide it with a line of symmetry, and create a painting using the geometric shapes demonstrating symmetry.
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Characteristics of Living Things: What Makes Them Tick
Learners list the characteristics of living things and give specific examples of living things exhibiting these characteristics. They bring in examples of living things.
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What's In A Name?
High schoolers create a binomial system of nomenclature for classifying organisms they encounter in a field trip to a natural history museum or from pictures in library books. They work in small groups to create accurate drawings and...
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Memory/Physiology Lab Activity
Young scholars investigate the nervous system and how physical distractions influence mental performance. They work in pairs as a researcher and subject and memorize a series of words with no distractions. After repeating the list of...
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Names in the Field: A Simple GPS Field Exercise
Students explore basic methods of GPS data collection, uploading the data to a computer, and making simple maps of their data using GIS software. They create a map of the data using GIS software (or Excel)
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A Ride to the Woods-Reading Comprehension
Students read an article called, "A Ride to the Woods," then complete ten short-answer questions about what they have read. Answers appear at the end.
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What's Your Latitude?
Students measure the height of items using an astrolabe. In this latitude lesson students construct a sextant and determine height and latitude with it.
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Pattern Using Unit Cells
Students explore the pattern of the unit cell. For this science lesson, students color the unit cells on a worksheet and create a pattern using unit cells.
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You Are Where You Live
Students explore where insects live and how they have adapted to their environment.
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The Great Food Hunt
Students locate 'animals' in various environments and draw conclusions about the survival value of structures the animals possess. They create model macaroni animals and hide them and other teams of students find them and evaluate the...
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Project Design
Twelfth graders study Thoreau as "philosopher" and developing a personal philosophy of life (both metaphorically and literally). They come to an understanding of the interconnectedness of the natural world. Students come to a realization...
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Introduction to Scientific Illustration
Seventh graders draw scientific illustrations in the lab. In this life science lesson, 7th graders discuss the importance of drawing in science experiments. They differentiate scientific drawing from basic art.
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Measuring Rainfall
In this activity, students will make a gauge to measure rainfall and see how much rain falls over several days.
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Introduction to Junkanoo! A Bahamian Festival
Students examine a Bahamian festival called Junkanoo. They analyze how group cooperation is related to the festival. They finally identify how factions form and how they can help or hurt a community.
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How Tall are Plants?
First graders measure a plant using unifix cubes and record their measurements on a class chart.
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A Bird's Eye View of our 50 States
Third graders focus on state birds as they learned absolute location (latitude/longitude) of each state, as well as their relative location (bordering states).
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The Angle of the Sun's Rays
Students study elevation of the Sun above the horizon and the angle of the rays and their heating power.
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Leaf Slides
Young scholars, in groups, examine leaf slides in order to explore the detail in leaves.
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Lenses and Mirrors
Students investigate lenses and mirrors showing how they bend and reflect light waves.