Don't lose your marbles — you'll need them for a lesson on neurotransmission. Young scholars build a neurotransmission model using marbles, beads, rubber bands, string, and other elements. After studying specific neurotransmitters,...

Students act as dendrochonologists working to reconstruct a 50 year climatic history. They make a personal timeline.

Students explore methods for reconstructing the past. In this forest succession activity, students examine forest succession and how to read the land in order to predict patterns of change. Students will visit a historical site, act as...

What can this rock be? Pupils pretend to be paleontologists by sketching fossils and making predictions about their types. To determine whether they can identify the type of dinosaur, class members compare their observations and...

Learners study the differences in anatomy to help identify different species and use a dichotomous key to identify what the owls were eating.  In this investigative lesson students dissect owl pellets to identify the species eaten...