My Science Box

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 ...

In this lesson, students review the water cycle (a concept most have hopefully explored before in elementary school science) and write stories to describe the journey of a water molecule ...

What's the big deal about rocks? They don't move, aren't flashy, and seem pretty useless to the untrained eye. To discover the beauty of rocks, one must look closer and ...

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. ...

Based on a “Carbon Adventures” lesson plan developed by  the GK-12 Project at Arizona State University. For details on the original activity, go to (http//gk12.asu.edu/curriculum/life_science/CarbonAdventures/carb_ad.htm). There is excellent background information ...