| Lesson Title (Description) |
Grade Level |
Lesson Type |
Coping with Environmental Differences
Students will observe and conduct an experiment to see whether differences in salinity (the environment) have an effect on the hatching rate and survival of brine shrimp. |
3-5 |
Classroom activity |
It's All Relative
In this lesson, students find pictures of living things and arrange them in collages, categorizing them according to which they think are more closely related to which. |
3-5 |
Classroom activity |
Mealworm Metamorphosis
Students will observe offspring (mealworms) that do not initially resemble their parent organism (darkling beetles) throughout complete metamorphosis. Students will also create and maintain an appropriate habitat for the mealworms. |
3-5 |
Classroom activity |
Tennis Shoe Detectives
Students make observations, examine data, and form hypotheses about a set of footprints and what they can tell us. |
3-5 |
Classroom activity |
Xenosmilus
Students play the roles of paleontologists on a dig. They “unearth” a few fossils at a time and attempt to reconstruct the animal the fossils represent. |
3-5 |
Classroom activity |
