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?
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!
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.
How is each of the states of matter not like the others?
Students will determine which type of natural disaster is not like the others.
The Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Seine, the Thames, and now... your river!
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!
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?
Students will determine which creature of the tundra is not like the others.
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?
Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to arrive at the topic of living vs non-living things.
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of electrical conductors!
Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to arrive at the topic of invertebrates vs vertebrates.
How is each of these stars not like the others?
Which object in the solar system is most habitable?
Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?
Students will determine which US National Park is not like the others.
Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.
Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?
Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of nocturnal vs diurnal animals.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of archipelagos.
Who will win the tournament of Natural Disasters!?
Which of these types of volcanoes is not like the others?
Students will determine which snake of the rainforest is not like the others.
Which of these rocks is not like the others?
Which of these four birds is not like the others?
Students will determine which of these types of diseases is not like the others.
Which of these deserts is not like the others?
Students will determine which type of ant is not like the others.
Students will determine which of these microorganisms is not like the others.
Students will determine which desert bird is not like the others.
Which type of energy will win the tournament!?