Teaching Students About Their Individual Affect on Air Pollution Do your students understand their individual effect on air pollution? Are you teaching about the human impact on the environment(MS-ESS3-3) for Earth Day? Are your students finding it hard to relate to such an abstract and, let’s face it, invisible type of pollution? Teaching science, especially…
Teaching Students About the Threat of Invasive Species Do your students understand the threat of invasive species? Are you doing a unit on how biological components of an ecosystem affect populations(MS-LS2-4 or HS-LS2-7)? Students may be surprised to learn that some of the “local animals”, that they grew up with, are actually non native! I…
Inspiring Middle School Students to Minimize Their Impact on Municipal Waste Do your students have any idea of their personal impact on municipal waste? Are you introducing a unit on human impact as part of the NGSS standard MS-ESS3? Let’s start the unit with relatable scenarios. Your mom asks you to clean your bedroom. You…
Design Water Filters With This Exciting STEM Project! Are you looking for a cheap and exciting STEM project for your students to design water filters? Are you teaching the standards of MS-ESS3-3 and MS-ETS1-2 while covering water pollution? This is a very low budget project that can be made into a very engaging and fun…
Identifying Pond Water Microorganisms as Bioindicators Have you been wanting to look at pond water with your students, but you struggle with identifying microorganisms? Do you need to know which creatures are tolerant to pollution, and which aren’t, but don’t have time to research? I have drawn 46 common macro and microorganisms that you are…
10 Environmental Activities for Earth Day or Every Day What are you doing for Earth Day? Are you looking for activities to help the students bring environmental conservation into their own lives? Every day should be Earth Day, but these ten activities will start great discussions as students celebrate environmental awareness. 1. Create a Giant…
