Better Bioreactors

Lesson Plan | April 2025

Are All Bacteria Harmful?

Lesson Plan | April 2025

Should Food Have Bacteria?

Lesson Plan | April 2025

More Cheese, Please

Lesson Plan | April 2025

How Can a Helicopter Fly on Mars?

Lesson Plan | July 2020

How Do We Find Patterns in Weather?

Lesson Plan | March 2020

Is It Made of Parts?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s developing ideas about structure in living systems. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that living things are made up of parts.

Is It an Engineering Problem?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how to approach a problem. The probe is designed to gain insight into how students think about an engineering design process (EDP) and the kinds of…

Is It Affordable?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about trade-offs. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that trade-offs involve sacrificing one or more things in favor of another…

Picking the Best Solution

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to provide practice in using a decision matrix. The probe is designed to see if students are able to interpret a decision matrix and to help you determine difficulties they may…

Rich source for lesson plans?

Blog Post | January 2016

Do you “Pin?” Early childhood preservice teachers on the NSTA Learning Center forums are recommending Pinterest as a source for lesson plans and activities: “Dig into pinterest!!!! It has been my best friend as a…