Students will organize various stem items, make observations regarding those items such as their color, size, etc and then graph their observations.

Time to demonstrate how the watershed works with this message in a bottle lesson. Students will have the opportunity to send a message in a bottle and observe how it travels down the watershed to the ocean!

Test how well plants grow with different liquids! Time to test the pH and see how it affects the growth of microgreens! Students will learn about input and output by adding liquids with different pH’s to the soil and measuring the effect of the output of plants.

This is a lesson for first grade to talk about how technology has changed our lives over the years. I have it related to the first settlers and the experience they may have had if they had today's technology.  We also will discuss the technology we use today in our rooms vs what used to be used and how our behavior online can affect us even when people can't see us. 

This is a short description intended to catch the reader and make them want to open your lesson.Bring a rural-cultural atmosphere to your classroom by hatching chicken eggs. Students will be able to compare basic to high tech incubators and compare how technology has influenced and advanced in order to meet cultural needs.  

Impossible Password Hack Challenge!!  Students will dive into the mid-year review with a new outlook on their vocabulary words. As they go back through old information they have the challenge to turn vocabulary words into the strongest password.  What group will be able to create the most complex passwords.

The student will identify and interpret data and organize it in order  to make a prediction, with or without a computing device.

Make life cycles and data recording “egg”-citing! Incubate eggs in your classroom. As you do, monitor and record data. 

Today we do lots of activities online. Students need to know the importance of having a secure password to keep their information safe when using the internet. In this lesson students will learn to make a safe password with a hands on activity.

Students will be able to distinguish between weak and strong passwords and how passwords could have looked in Ancient Egypt!  Using the stamps, hieroglyphics stamps, magnetic letters, and papyrus paper, the students will be able to create passwords.  Dive into the differences in Ancient Egypt and today and learn how to keep your information safe!

Students will be able to explore the different continents by making a model of a continent of their choice!  Using the globe, modeling clay, placemats, and other tools, the students will be able to use their creativity to produce a model of a continent.  Dive into the different continents and allow your students access to expand their knowledge using creativity!

Students can explore maps and electronic communication with this hands on map activity. Add an extension to make a classroom quilt map!

Overview of the activity: Introduce students to the Brainpop videos to open the discussion of what magnets are and how they can be used.  

Students will sort and graph attributes of the Lakota, Powhatan, and Pueblo tribe. They will then rotate through groups and make models of items.

This lesson is for Networking and the Internet. The student will learn the difference between a network and the internet. They will be reminded of the importance of internet security and safety and how not everything on the internet is real. This lesson will use videos, books and hand on time to understand the how a network vs the internet works.

Technology has not just changed over time.  It has changed the way citizens live their lives and perform their jobs.  This lesson will discuss how communication has changed over time in the local community.

In this exciting and interactive experiment, students will have the opportunity to discover and understand the relationship between force and mass regarding the movement of various-sized balls. Through the use of Spheros, these ingenious devices will enable students to apply force to balls of different sizes, including the wiffle ball, racquetball, softball, and ping pong ball. By observing the fascinating dynamics at play, students will gain invaluable insights into how force and mass influence the trajectory, speed, and overall movement of these balls. This hands-on activity is sure to spark curiosity and foster a deeper appreciation for the principles of physics in a fun and engaging manner.

Scientific Method and scientific investigation are skills needed for our students to explore new adventures and avenues.  Kids will have a good time exploring science while dissolving marshmallows. Students will be investigating how temperature affects the size of a marshmallow.  The students will determine the constant, dependent variable, and independent variable.

Students will follow along with the slide deck to discuss changes in technology, as well as changes to the U.S. Constitution.  Students will then work to correctly place statements in a Venn diagram.  With extra time, students will do a Roll & Read activity with Plus Plus or Pixel blocks.