Students use pipe cleaners and uv sensitive beads to create an animal and then design a structure that will protect the animal and keep it from changing colors in the sun.

Students will be given a Makey Makey kit, a Chromebook with the Scratch website and a choice of materials to create a circuit that will allow the students to play an in instrument.

As students study the human body, they can include the different body systems as they build their Operation games. Made from a few household materials, a makey-makey kit and the Scratch website, students can create and play their Operation game.

You will investigate various materials to determine their insulation value. From this investigation, you will design and build a doghouse that will keep your dog cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

Each team has a budget of $45 to spend to modify a cup into the ultimate predator.  After predators are constructed, students battle to pop each others’ balloons.  Whichever predator is able to survive is the apex predator.

This is an end of the year culminating project . Students will work on their own or in pairs to create a house that will help their family to survive the climate of a randomly chosen location. Students will use their knowledge or ecosystems, heating and cooling, and weather prediction and tracking to determine the proper supplies that will be needed to build a house for survival. The project will include weather research, house build planning, creating a mock-up, and presentation to the class. The project will conclude with a video detailing what they would change after collaboration with the class.

Student groups will have the opportunity to share the knowledge they develop about the entrepreneurial process and business leadership through the creation of a periodic Podcast.

Students will use paper circuits to label various parts of the skeletal system.

Students will create a weekly Podcast regarding a current or future technology based on research. Students will need to provide a typed summary  and works cited page for teacher approval prior to creating the podcast. This is a great lesson for integration into the school news or class webpage.

In this project, students will learn about the planning process to creating an algorithm using paper coding blocks as manipulatives and visual aids. They will Be given a set of requirements that their robot must follow and then discuss the process with their groups and create their algorithm using Code Snaps. When they have created their paper program, they will test it and review it for possible issues and improvements.

 Students will create a map that includes (at minimum) five buildings, one must be your house and one must be the post office.   They will use the spheros to find the best route to the post office in order to ship their gift, in the shortest amount of time.  Students will need to find the length and width of each building on your map, using the spheros  and the distance=rate x time and find the area of each building. 

 This is an introductory project-based lesson. It is assumed that background knowledge of vocabulary, procedural steps, and concept have been previously instructed.  In this project, students will create a square-based pyramid net that would represent their actual tent. Then, they will need to figure out how much fabric that they will need in order to cover their tent.  Extensions are built into this activity that would allow the students to practice / explore skills with decimals, percents, and ratios.

Students will create online Trivia games as a review of GCF, LCM, Distributive Property and Prime Factorization

Students will create videos that convince the rest of the 6th graders that math is allaround them by doing activities that they love. Students will gather data, create dotplots, histograms and box-and-whisker plots to display data.

 Students will create a map that includes (at minimum) five quadrilateral buildings, one must be the post office.   They will use the spheros to find the best route from the post office to each of the buildings, in the shortest amount of time.  Students will need to find the total amount of time it takes the mailman to deliver the mail to each building. Determine how much he would get paid per hour if he received $100 to complete the route. 

  Students will-Design/create a specific object with given shapes and dimensionsSelect which shipping box is best to safely ship that object. Calculate and subtract the volume of the box from the calculated volume of the object to determine the remaining volume of the interior of the box.

In this project, students will create videos that describe what surface area is, what algorithmic steps are needed to find surface area, and finally, they will show how to find the surface area of a polyhedron. Note: This lesson assumes that students have had previous lessons on surface area. This lesson is meant to be sort of a summative assessment tool in which students show their conceptual and procedural fluency of surface area.

Students will demonstrate knowledge of visible light interactions with different materials and through different mediums (air, solids, and water). Students will use Sphero Bolt to create a flashlight. The goal is to create the brightest light from the LED lights on the Sphero BOLT. Students will need to understand how light interacts with different substances to successfully create the brightest flashlight. They will also test their lights in water to see how waves change direction and speed in different mediums.  The Light intensity will be measured using the function in google science journal.

 Students have been hired by a postal service to create boxes based on given dimensions and find the total surface area. 

This lesson is for 7th grade students reading A Long Walk to Water.