Science
A Lunar Survival Mission
A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?
Create A Creature
Move the typical biome study way up Bloom's Taxonomy and have students create their own extinct creature featuring realistic adaptations based on plants and animals that actually live in the biome. Bonus task? Classify it into the appropriate kingdom, phylum, class, and so on!
Not Like The Others: Planets
Which of these planets is not like others? Well, it sure looks simple at first. But quickly, you start to realize… there's more to it than you thought. Each option could be the one that doesn't fit in.
Not Like The Others: States of Matter
How is each of the states of matter not like the others?
Not Like The Others: Natural Disasters
Students will determine which type of natural disaster is not like the others.
Create A Civilization: The River
The Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Seine, the Thames, and now... your river!
The Tournament of Biomes
Want to move beyond memorizing the characteristics of biomes? In this lesson, students work through a Tournament of Biomes, explaining which biome wins in each round (based on criteria you choose). In the end, they crown a 👑 Champion Biome!
The Pros and Cons of Producers and Consumers
Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer's opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?
Not Like The Others: Creatures of the Tundra
Students will determine which creature of the tundra is not like the others.
The Personalities of Rocks
What would an igneous rock be like? Would it get along with a sedimentary rock? Could they handle the hot personality of a metamorphic rock?
Creating A Realistic Flower and Pollinator
Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.
Concept Attainment: Walnut vs Clouds
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to arrive at the topic of living vs non-living things.
Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
Concept Attainment: Conductors
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of electrical conductors!
Animal Adaptation Tournament
Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?
Concept Attainment: Hornet vs Tiger
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to arrive at the topic of invertebrates vs vertebrates.
Not Like The Others: Stars
How is each of these stars not like the others?
Habitable Planets and Moons Tournament
Which object in the solar system is most habitable?
Plant Adaptation Tournament
Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?
Not Like The Others: US National Parks
Students will determine which US National Park is not like the others.
Not Like The Others: Penguins
Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.
How Renewable Is That Resource?
Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?
Precipitation Tournament
Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.
Concept Attainment: Nocturnal vs Diurnal
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of nocturnal vs diurnal animals.
Concept Attainment: Japan vs Jamaica
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of archipelagos.
Natural Disasters Tournament
Who will win the tournament of Natural Disasters!?
Not Like The Others: Types of Volcanoes
Which of these types of volcanoes is not like the others?
Not Like The Others: Snakes of the Rainforest
Students will determine which snake of the rainforest is not like the others.
Not Like The Others: Types of Rocks
Which of these rocks is not like the others?
Not Like The Others: Birds of the Tropical Rainforest
Which of these four birds is not like the others?
Not Like The Others: Types of Diseases
Students will determine which of these types of diseases is not like the others.
Not Like The Others: Deserts
Which of these deserts is not like the others?
Not Like The Others: Ants of the World!
Students will determine which type of ant is not like the others.
Not Like The Others: Microorganisms
Students will determine which of these microorganisms is not like the others.
Not Like The Others: Birds of the Desert
Students will determine which desert bird is not like the others.
Types of Energy Tournament
Which type of energy will win the tournament!?
