Students build and investigate mini-ecosystems with soil and water components using 2 Liter bottles.
Students conduct 4 tests of soil quality in the classroom that can then be applied to their terraqua columns and to the outdoorsvisual observation, soil separation, pH, and Tullgren Funnel ...
Students conduct 3 tests of water quality in the classroom that can then be applied to their terraqua columns and to the outdoorspH, dissolved oxygen, and temperature. They make comparisons ...
Delve into a micro-habitat that is the size of a drop of water. This lesson allows students to explore the plankton (organisms that drift with the currents) that exist in ...
In this culminating project, students go out into the field and test their theories about erosion and sedimentation at a local creek. How are sediments distributed along the creek? Does ...
Once students have some experience working with a basic terraqua column (see the Terraqua Columns Lesson), they have an opportunity to design and conduct their own investigations with their mini-ecosystems. ...
Every rock holds clues about how it formed. Geologists are like rock detectives who know how to read the clues about a rock’s origins and the stories it can tell. ...
Variation in a population is the raw material on which natural selection works. How do scientists measure and quantify variation in traits? We use garden snails as a model organism ...
All known life is made out of a small group of chemical compounds called organic molecules. Common organic molecules include proteins, glucose, starch, lipids, and nucleic acids. This lesson plan ...
Here you will find a toolbox full of inquiry investigations on photosynthesis and respiration. Rather than the detailed lesson plans provided elsewhere at My Science Box, each experiment only contains ...
