Bio Ed Online: Detecting Air Pollution

Clever! In order to compare indoor and outdoor dispersal rates for the movement of gases and particles through air, collaborators will participate in a classroom experiment. Set up a circular grid and set students on lines that are...

In class, your emerging environmentalists construct dust catchers. They take them home for a week or two, and then bring them back into class to examine under a magnifier. From this activity, they learn what makes up dust and that...

Trace pollutants through the environment in the seventh lesson of this series on the science of food. Looking at a picture of the plants and animals in an aquatic ecosystem, learners use dot stickers to represent harmful chemicals as...

Students participate in a bubble blowing activity where they learn about air and breathing. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

What causes sound? How do our ears detect sound? How do our brains recognize sound? In this instructional activity students investigate hearing and discover that sensory receptors in the ears collect sound information and transmit it to...

What are the basic tastes? Where is information about taste detected in the body? For this lesson students taste four mystery substances and learn that the tongue is covered with taste buds, which contain taste receptors that communicate...

This is a free downloadable teacher's guide (PDF) to teach young children (grades K-2) about living things and their needs.

This series of videos introduces students to the brain, including why it is so special, its parts and functions and how it recalls memories and stores new information. Other videos explain how the brain processes sensory information and...

This is a pre-assessment to be done at the beginning of a unit on the needs of living things. Students draw themselves and what they need to survive. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

In this lesson, students investigate and compare the needs of plants and animals. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.