All Life Is Cellular!

Young biologists travel back billions of years through history in a collaborative life science project. Given a long sheet of paper and a list of key biological events, learners work in small groups creating and illustrating timelines...

A pinch of adenine, a dash of thymine and ta-da, you have life! Well, it's not quite that simple, but through this series of activities and experiments young scientists learn about the structure of DNA and how it contains the recipe for...

Determining whether or not something is living can be more difficult than it seems. Put your young scientists to work defining their own criteria to identify life, then work with three samples to see if they are alive or not. 

Rather than teaching photosynthesis and cellular respiration as individual topics, present them as a combined concept. Young scholars use websites to research and answer questions before organizing a concept map. The second day is much...

A multi-faceted and exciting activity awaits your astronomy learners. In collaborative groups, they plan a mission to hunt for extraterrestrial life within the solar system, while adhering to specific measurement criteria. 

Ten percent of the world's forest carbon stores exist on the 18 percent of land legally owned by indigenous people. The first lesson plan in a series of four discusses the way different groups of people treat the land and forests....

The narrator of a short video explores carbon and why it is the basis for all life on Earth and discusses all elements necessary for life that can be found in the human body. 

Our bodies simply aren't built for such a sedentary existence. Discover what happens to our bodies when we don't practice what we are built to do—move!

When is a person no longer living? This question has been puzzled over for millennia, but is there a clear answer? Watch as this video examines the biological line separating life and death.

How do lighting types affect energy efficiency? Explore different types of lighting and the energy they use. Pupils learn about types of lights and calculate the energy used during a typical school year. They discover that being energy...