Classroom-Ready Curriculum - Learning Undefeated

Moon’s Disappearing Act

This unit will introduce students to solar eclipses. Students will develop questions after being introduced to phenomena.

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Mystery of the Crooked Cell (Classroom)

Students will analyze and develop questions about the disease while looking at blood smear for healthy and sickle patients.

Operation Polar Eye: Think Like a Drone

In this activity, students will use computational thinking to write a code sequence for a drone to survey an arctic map. This activity is based on the work done by Northrop Grumman in Operation Polar Eye.

Parasite Predicament (Classroom)

Students will learn how antibodies are used in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and will determine whether or not their patient has contracted the malaria parasite.

Properties of Water

Students investigate the unique properties of water through two engaging activities

Radon and Lung Cancer

Students learn about the dangers of radon, the different subtypes of lung cancer, and the radon mitigation systems that can be implemented.

Rainbow in a Tube

See density in action by creating a rainbow in a tube! Understand how each solution is made of particles too small to be seen!

Reaction in a Bag

Explore a chemical reaction to create a small burst. This reaction comes from combining baking soda and vinegar.

Reaction Times

Learn about our five main senses and test to see which of them allows for the fastest reaction!

Wave Machine

Explore transmission, absorption, and reflection of waves! Build a wave machine to investigate how different materials (mediums) react to a wave to create these wave behaviors!

What’s in a Wave

Students explore wave types and properties by building models and a DIY speaker.

Wildlife Forensics (Classroom)

Students will compare the DNA fragment(s) in a sample of DNA from a package of fins to great white and porbeagle shark DNA controls to determine if your unidentified fin is from a great white shark.