Lessons: Middle School
Lessons for Grades 6-8
Biology & Environmental Science
Food Webs, Biomass, and the 10% Rule
Animal Adaptations: Form Fits Function
Meeps vs. Gorks: Predator and Prey Adaptations
Fish Diversity and Fish Anatomy/Dissection
Interactive Punnett Square Activity
Making Recycled Paper – Environmental Activity
Diffusion and Osmosis in Action
Building a Muscle Model of the Human Arm
Human Evolution: Learning from Primate Skull Models
How do Humans Affect the Environment?
Water, Water Everywhere: Getting to Know Your Local Watershed
Physics & Engineering
How are Everyday Products Manufactured?
Building a Better Mousetrap: the Design Process
Introduction to Units of Measurement - Part I
Introduction to Units of Measurement - Part II
Newton's Laws: Acceleration, Mass, and Gravity
Law of Conservation of Energy, Part I: Kinetics and Potential Energy
Law of Conservation of Energy, Part II: Pendulums
Properties of Heat, Part I: Heat Transfer
Properties of Heat, Part II: Heat Transfer
Heat Energy: Radiation and Convection
Introduction to Bernoulli's Principle (and Handouts/Notes for Bernoulli's Principle Lab)
Introduction to Convex Lenses and Light
Blackboxes: Introduction to Reverse Engineering
Sundials: Low-Tech Engineering Solutions
Scaling: A 10-Story Building that Fits on your Desk
Energy and Forces: Introduction to Building a Trebuchet
The Mechanisms of Decay and Decomposition
States of Matter: Using Superglue to Develop Fingerprints
The Language of Computers: Introduction to Binary Numbers