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?

Notice Wonder: Blood Falls

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

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.

Create A Creature

Create a new creature based on the adaptations of existing creatures from the same biome.

Engineering: Build A Bridge

Using real bridges as their starting point, students will construct bridges out of straws and paperclips.

Not Like The Others: Natural Disasters

Students will determine which type of natural disaster is not like the others.

Not Like The Others: States of Matter

How is each of the states of matter not like the others?

Creating A Realistic Flower and Pollinator

Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.

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?

Create A Civilization: The River

The Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Seine, the Thames, and now… your river!

Animal Adaptation Tournament

Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?

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!

Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System

Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?

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?

Not Like The Others: Creatures of the Tundra

Students will determine which creature of the tundra is not like the others.

Plant Adaptation Tournament

Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?

Notice, Wonder: Climber

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Not Like The Others: US National Parks

Students will determine which US National Park is not like the others.

Concept Attainment: Walnut vs Clouds

Let’s look at living vs non-living things.

Tournament of Not-So-Famous Inventors

Which inventor and invention will win the tournament?

How Renewable Is That Resource?

Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?

Concept Attainment: Conductors

Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!

Not Like The Others: Stars

How is each of these stars not like the others?

Concept Attainment: Hornet vs Tiger

Can your class spot the vertebrates vs invertebrates?

Habitable Planets and Moons Tournament

Which object in the solar system is most habitable?

Not Like The Others: Penguins

Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.

What’s In My Brain: Owl vs Eagle

Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.

Precipitation Tournament

Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

Natural Disasters Tournament

Who will win the tournament of Natural Disasters!?

Notice, Wonder: Green Circles

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: The Cliff

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Not Like The Others: Types of Volcanoes

Which of these types of volcanoes is not like the others?

Concept Attainment: Japan vs Jamaica

Is it an island or an archipelago?

Notice, Wonder: An Orange Thing

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: A River

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Forest

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Types of Energy Tournament

Which type of energy will win the tournament!?

Not Like The Others: Types of Rocks

Which of these rocks is not like the others?

Notice, Wonder: Akron

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice Wonder: Turbine

Your students will be surprised by the size of this turbine… and by what’s hanging from it!

Notice, Wonder: Michael

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Not Like The Others: Birds of the Tropical Rainforest

Which of these four birds is not like the others?

What’s In My Brain: Ball vs Book

Let’s look at Kinetic vs Potential Energy!

Not Like The Others: Snakes of the Rainforest

Students will determine which snake of the rainforest is not like the others.

What’s In My Brain: Crocodile vs Tree Frog

Is it a reptile or an amphibian?

Notice, Wonder: Swirls

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Not Like The Others: Rainforests

Which of these rainforests is not like the others?

What’s In My Brain: Guinea Pig vs Potbelly

Let’s look at misnomers – things with the wrong name!

Not Like The Others: Deserts

Which of these deserts is not like the others?

Notice, Wonder: Plateau

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

A System Similar to a Cell

Which parts of a cell serve a similar job to the parts of a cruise ship, human body, computer, or other system?

What’s In My Brain: Narwhal vs Penguin

We’re looking at the arctic vs the antarctic.

Notice, Wonder: Etna

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

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: Ants of the World!

Students will determine which type of ant is not like the others.

Notice, Wonder: A House

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Not Like The Others: Flowers

Students will determine which flower is not like the others.

Notice Wonder: Electronics

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice Wonder: Z-Machine

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder – Critter

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Not Like The Others: Microorganisms

Students will determine which of these microorganisms is not like the others.

Notice, Wonder: Krzywy Las

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Vortices

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Bloom

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

What’s In My Brain: Coral vs Water Lilies

Let’s look at saltwater vs freshwater organisms.

Not Like The Others: Birds of the Desert

Students will determine which desert bird is not like the others.

Notice, Wonder: Sombrero

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Witch’s Fingers

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Kuiseb

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

What’s In My Brain: Tree vs Tree

Let’s look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.

Notice, Wonder: Silver Torch

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Skylight

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Butterball

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Scales

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Not Like The Others: Rivers

Students will determine which river is not like the others.

Notice, Wonder: SLS Test

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Not Like The Others: Cephalopods

Students will determine which cephalopod is not like the others.

Notice, Wonder – Rosetta

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Barringer

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Notice, Wonder: Craters

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

What’s In My Brain: Inventions vs Discovery

We’re looking at inventions vs discoveries.

What’s In My Brain: Lion vs Bear

We’re looking at carnivores vs omnivores.

What’s In My Brain: Paperclip vs Straw

We’re looking at magnetic vs. non-magnetic materials.