Classroom Resources

Students learn how human activity has impacted animal migration. They begin by watching a video of elk migration through Yellowstone National Park to understand what animal migration is, why elk migrate, how far they travel, and why humans should care. They then imagine themselves back in time and think about how they would adapt the land to better meet the evolving needs of their developing community. Finally, students learn more about specific ways people have altered the environment, explore one geographic area in the United States, and map the human activity in that region. This lesson is part of the Interrupted Migrations unit.

Students, in their role as scientists, create and finalize a collaborative model of the global carbon cycle. As a class, they use the model in a presentation aimed to inform and inspire an invited audience to think more carefully about the impacts of fossil fuel use. This lesson is part of the Carbon Trackers unit.

This resource provides guides and examples to help start your own school garden.

This Robots 3D Activity Guide includes instructions on how to compile materials to create your own robotics kit. It uses hands-on activities that we use every day and easily found items. Customize your kit to fit particular grades, education standards, or topics, such as electricity and circuits; actuators, mobility and sensors; simple machines and gears; programming and operation; and real-world application.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to construct angles using a protractor. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that describes strategies taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to identify angles as obtuse, acute, right, or straight. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the types of angles taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to identify common types of quadrilaterals using their characteristics. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the quadrilaterals taught during the interactive is available to be printed. There is a karaoke song with printable lyrics that will help students learn and review the types of quadrilaterals. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to identify similar figures. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that describes strategies taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

This classroom resource provides a video that introduces transformations and describes the different types: reflection, rotation, and translation. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to identify edges, faces, and vertices of solid figures. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that describes strategies taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

Students review what animal adaptations are, identify marine animal adaptations in a photo gallery, and predict how types of adaptations vary with ocean habitats.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to tell time on analog clocks and use the appropriate terminology. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that describes strategies taught during the interactive is available to be printed. There is a karaoke song with printable lyrics that will help students learn and review the steps taught during the activity. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to find elapsed time in a variety of math problems. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that describes strategies taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to tell temperature using a thermometer. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. There is a karaoke song with printable lyrics that will help students learn and review the strategies taught during the activity. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

Students investigate conditions in the deepest parts of the ocean, make inferences about ocean creatures based on their physical characteristics, and design creatures that could survive in the Mariana Trench.

Through videos and sorting exercises, this lesson delves into the fascinating process and products of sexual selection: the process by which traits become more or less common depending on an individual’s ability to mate with more or better partners.

When scientists use the term energy, there are a variety of definitions, but the commonly taught definition in school science is the capacity to do work. What does this definition mean, and how does it help us think about our human energy systems? This teacher guide is designed to familiarize teachers with both the technical terminology about energy and the energy efficiency and conservation issues that have become so important in recent years.

In this introductory slideshow, students will be led through steps to learn common measurement tools. There is a karaoke song with printable lyrics that will help students learn and review the measurement tools. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to calculate the area of a parallelogram. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available.  A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to calculate the area of irregular figures. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to convert customary and metric lengths. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to calculate the surface area of solid figures. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

This classroom resource provides a video that introduces the customary and metric measurement systems, as well as their corresponding units for capacity, length, weight, mass, and temperature. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to convert units of time. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to tell time using a calendar. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed.  After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to measure the length of objects. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. There is a karaoke song with printable lyrics that will help students learn and review the steps taught during the activity. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to measure and calculate the perimeter of polygons. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to calculate the area of a triangle. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

This classroom resource provides a video that introduces the volume of solid figures and describes the units used to measure volume. There is a karaoke song with printable lyrics that will help students learn and review the information taught during the video. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to add and subtract measurements in word problems. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to calculate the circumference of a circle. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

This classroom resource is a book from Epic! This book introduces early readers to goods and services, what makes them different, and examples of each. The age range is 5-7 years old and AR reading level is 2.7. The book includes a glossary and two learning activities.

Students engage with a variety of resources to learn about ecosystems and the interactions among organisms in ecosystems, with a focus on elk migration in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Groups create a second map layer for their unit project that shows how their focal animal’s migration impacts its ecosystem. This lesson is part of the Detours and Distractions: How Humans Impact Migration Patterns unit.

Students will engage with photographs, videos, handouts, and animations to learn why and how animals migrate, methods used to track and map migrations, and how humans are impacting animal migration. Students use a variety of resources to research a focal animal in order to create a map layer showing its migration pattern, which is part of their unit project. This lesson is part of the Detours and Distractions: How Humans Impact Migration Patterns unit.

The goal of Challenge: Extreme Weather! is to expose students to exciting careers in science and engineering while engaging them in learning important concepts about the engineering design process. They also learn about the layers of the atmosphere and the different types of instruments used to measure weather data.

During game play, students take on the role of an engineer or a meteorologist at WeatherComm. In that role, they launch weather balloons to forecast a thunderstorm, use programming to save researchers in a winter storm, test a weather-resistant structure against hurricane forces, and design an aircraft to fight a forest fire and weather obstacles.