Lesson Plans

Clean Sweep

Clean Sweep

Lesson Overview Students will describe and illustrate
the feeding relationships of aquatic food webs. They will communicate
environmental issues ...
Drone Pollination

Drone Pollination

Lesson Overview: Students will be working in groups to create a 3-d printed drone pollination applicator that can be used ...
Go With the Flow

Go With the Flow

Lesson Overview: Lesson focuses on students creating a working model of an ecological concept, the River Continuum Concept and demonstrating ...
Temporary Sanctuary

Temporary Sanctuary

Lesson Overview: Lesson focuses on students learning about how sustainability, biomimicry, and architecture can work together to create innovative and ...
Animal Architects

Animal Architects

Lesson Overview This unit takes biological phenomena such as transpiration of plants, laws of thermodynamics, animal behavior and regulation of ...
The Charging Sun: Self-Sustaining Portable Charger

The Charging Sun: Self-Sustaining Portable Charger

In this lesson students will learn about how photosynthesis and photovoltaic cells work. Looking specifically at light reaction and solar ...
Flight of the Bumblebee

Flight of the Bumblebee

Lesson Overview: This is an integrated lesson to be used in Physical Science and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Class.  The focus ...
Animal Armor

Animal Armor

Lesson Overview: Students study different types of arthropods and design 3D printed body armor for stuffed animals based on exoskeletons.  ...
Build a bug: Designing a Predator Insect

Build a bug: Designing a Predator Insect

Lesson Overview: The students will research what makes a good predator to design and 3D print a prototype of the ...

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