My Science Box

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 ...

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 ...

This lesson is an extension of the GEMS guide“River Cutters” by the Lawrence Hall of Science (see note below). In the GEMS curriculum, students are introduced to erosion by modeling ...

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. ...

Earthquake TowerIn this project, students construct drinking straw towers that must withstand the shaking of a shake table. One by one, 250 gram sandbags are loaded onto the towers. The ...