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Conference & Workshop Materials

• Carolina’s Young Scientist™ Dissections with Carolina’s Perfect Solution® Specimens Transform students into young scientists with simple hands-on dissections. This workshop guides you through dissection of a squid and a frog. View »
• Protein Necklace: Harnessing the Glow of Jellyfish This workshop explores a simple, 3-dimensional classroom activity to isolate the green fluorescent protein found in jellyfish. Show students that protein science can be tangible and engaging but not overwhelming with this beginner’s activity. View »
• Come to Your Senses: Physiology in Action Don’t think you have the nerves for physiology? This workshop offers 4 easy, hands-on activities, suitable for all grade levels, to explore homeostasis, reflexes and reactions, and response to stimuli. View »
• Introduction to Wisconsin Fast Plants® Learn how to plant and teach with Fast Plants®. Ideal for all grade levels, they are easily used to explore many scientific concepts. View »
• Engineer Physical Science Excitement with a Carolina STEM Challenge® Rockets zoom and race cars zip. Experience how Carolina makes it easy to incorporate STEM into chemistry and physical science. View »
• Keep Calm and Chemistry On: Successful Lab Activities for the New Chemistry Teacher Explore easy, engaging, and safe chemistry activities that will produce a reaction in your students. View »
• AUTOPSY: Forensic Dissection Featuring Carolina’s Perfect Solution® Pigs Are you ready for a forensic dissection activity that is on the cutting edge? Engage students and revitalize your instruction of mammalian structure and function with a “real” classroom autopsy! Participants dissect a Carolina’s Perfect Solution® pig by modeling the protocols of a forensic pathologist. View »
• Hands-On Science with Phenomenal Critters Discover fun, simple activities with live organisms that you can use in your labs. Learn about care, handling, and ways to introduce inquiry. View »
• Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy with Carolina's Perfect Solution® Specimens Explore animal diversity during this workshop that compares anatomical adaptations of the pig, rat, dogfish, and frog. View »
• Strawberry Milkshakes: DNA and Lactose Intolerance In this workshop, learn how to introduce students to molecular biology through age-appropriate, hands-on activities designed to make challenging abstract concepts (including DNA, genes, and enzymes) more concrete—and to make biology fun. View »
• They Come in Pairs: Addressing Student Misconceptions About Chromosomes What if meiosis and chromosomes were as easy to understand as folding laundry? This workshop shows how ChromoSock® specialty socks can address student misconceptions. View »
• Hands-On Activities to Model Sampling, Habitat Degradation, and Animal Choice This workshop explores methods to estimate population size, determine the effects of habitat degradation, and investigate organisms' habitat preference. View »
• Shark Dissection: A Jawsome Experience! Dive in and learn how to create your own Shark Week! This workshop guides you through a hands-on dissection of a dogfish shark. View »
• Smithsonian 3D Learning and 3D Assessment How can you be sure you’re providing 3-D learning and 3-D assessment? Experience investigations from Smithsonian Science for the Classroom as both learner and teacher. View »
• How Can We Provide Freshwater to Those in Need? This Smithsonian Science for the Classroom module asks students to investigate where to find water, explore ways to move water, and determine how to provide freshwater to those in need. View »
• Pregnant Rat Dissection This dissection activity allows students to develop their dissection and observation skills, identify major features of the pregnant rat, and understand form and function. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Wisconsin Fast Plants® Fast, Fun, and Easy Planting This activity will help you understand how easy it is to plant and care for Wisconsin Fast Plants®. As quickly as your plants grow, you will develop multiple ideas for using Fast Plants® with your students to discover and investigate many aspects of plant growth and development. View »
• See(d) the Difference: Seed Germination with the Discovery Lens Kit Students of all ages can learn from observing the germination of seeds. In this activity, seeds germinate on black agar plates, making the developmental stages easy to observe and identify. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Balancing Chemical Equations This activity focuses on using models to help balance chemical equations and understand the law of conservation of mass. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Clean Up Your Mess! Air and Water Pollution Remediation Pollution remediation is a messy but necessary business. Experience hands-on environmental science activities that model the techniques used to clean up pollution. View »
• Assessing Water Quality with Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Use this introductory activity to familiarize students with the types of macroinvertebrates they may collect in a local stream or as a review activity on biotic water quality calculations. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• The Composition and Age of Stars Do your students think stars burn? Can they tell the age of a star like our sun? Ignite interest in astrophysics with this easy demonstration. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Build a Bot with Cubelets®, Robot Blocks Give your students an engineering design challenge with Cubelets®, Robot Blocks. Develop a series of tasks that a robot can perform, then let students engineer and test the robots. View »
• Modeling Energy in a System You experience energy, force, and motion every second of your day. In this activity, modified from the STCMS™ unit Energy, Forces, and Motion, you create a model to explain how energy is involved in moving a pendulum. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Force Awakens Magnetism is an example of a non-contact force that occurs when objects are not touching. In this activity, students investigate how magnets create a force field that can attract and repel objects. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Cutaneous Sensation You have probably noticed that cutaneous receptors are not equally distributed throughout the skin. Some places on your body are more sensitive than others. This activity explores the density of mechanoreceptors in the skin on the hand. View »
• Comparative Mammalian Organ Dissection with Carolina’s Perfect Solution® Specimens This comparative dissection workshop explores 4 mammalian organs and their structures, using superior quality Carolina’s Perfect Solution® preserved specimens. View »
• Arriving on the Scene: Collect and Analyze Evidence Like the Pros Expose your students to the fascinating world of forensics by using real-world techniques practiced by law enforcement agencies. Students analyze and document evidence to recreate a crime scene. View »
• Structure and Function K-5: What Is the Learning Progression? How can we help students understand structure and function? Can students learn better through a coherent learning progression? Can science be taught in 30-minute lessons? Experience a fun, inquiry-based workshop to answer these questions. View »
• Workshop: Solve the Mystery of Beads in a Bottle Experience firsthand the 5 innovations of NGSS from the Smithsonian's middle school chemistry unit, Matter and Its Interactions. View »
• Making Algae Beads In this activity students create spheres of green algae for use in experiments that explore the metabolic processes of plants. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Bouncing Off the Page Combine physics and biology concepts in one lesson that focuses on the art of creating two-dimensional images with the illusion of depth. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• What's Your Type? Using Carolina® Synthetic Blood in your classroom offers students the opportunity to conduct realistic blood typing activities without the associated risks. This activity includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Cow Eye Dissection This dissection activity introduces students to the anatomy of the mammalian eye. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Disorder Detectives In this activity, students take on the role of a cytogeneticist. They are given a case study and a set of patient chromosome decals that they arrange into a completed karyotype. View »
• Elephant Toothpaste Demonstrate the use of a catalyst in the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide with this activity. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Ice Creamer By using table salt to lower the freezing temperature of water below 0° C, the ice and water mixture becomes cold enough to freeze a nondairy creamer solution into ice cream. View »
• Make a Choice! Gain an understanding of animal behavior, habitat, and other environmental and ecological concepts with interlocking choice chambers. View »
• Wisconsin Fast Plants® Necklace This activity allows you to observe and record root and shoot development and create a unique necklace from Wisconsin Fast Plants® seed. View »
• Pig Dissection In this activity, students hone their dissection and observation skills, identify major features of a pig, understand form and function, and better understand vertebrate and mammalian anatomy. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Owl Pellet Dissection This introductory dissection activity helps students understand predator-prey relationships, owl feeding habits, and food webs. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Frog Dissection with Carolina's Perfect Solution® Specimens Dissecting a frog specimen is a great introduction to vertebrate anatomy. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Squid Dissection Examine structural adaptations and observe the relationship between form and function with this dissection activity. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• The Smithsonian Presents Energy in Action How does energy move and change? Answer this question and others while experiencing one of the new modules from the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ series. View »
• Strawberry DNA Extraction Introduce students to DNA with this activity. A discussion of how this DNA extraction procedure works might also touch on the plant cell wall, the cell membrane, and DNA's lack of solubility in ethanol. Includes materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Sheep Brain Dissection introduce students to the anatomy of a mammalian brain. During this dissection activity, students identify major brain structures and better understand the nervous system. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Dry Ice Explosion Demonstrate the physical states of carbon dioxide with the help of this video. View »
• Leave Your Print: Basic Fingerprinting Let this basic fingerprinting activity introduce your students to a real-world application of science. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• A "Taste" of Carolina® Physiology Our sense of taste is limited to a few basic responses. In this activity, students explore how the perception of flavor can be influenced by other factors. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
• Jump Right In-the Water’s Great! Discover how water quality testing can be part of your curriculum. Plus, gain experience working with different types of water testing materials. View »
• Collecting Cancer-Causing Changes In this activity, students simulate cell divisions and identify various mutation patterns that lead to increases in the rate of cell division. View »
• Criteria and Constraints: What Is the Best Rooftop for Heavy Precipitation? Experience model lessons from the new Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ and see how easy it is to lead students through the engineering design process to solve real-world problems. View »
• How Do Earth’s Processes Change the Landscape? Experience new lessons from Smithsonian Science for the Classroom that engage, inspire, and connect student to real science as they investigate the effects of an earthquake, a glacier, and wind. View »
• Increasing the Sophistication of Student Thinking Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ supports increased sophistication of student thinking through developmental learning progressions. View »
• K-2 Talking Allowed Science Discourse for Equity Learn why science discourse is important as you explore engaging Building Blocks of Science 3D Lessons View »
• Raising the Bar for Rigor in Grades 3-5 Experience how Building Blocks of Science(tm) 3D helps students solve real world problems. View »
• Talking Allowed! Using Science Discourse for Equity in Grades 6-8 Why is middle school science discourse important? How does it impact the equity in the science classroom? How do teachers implement this strategy? Learn the answers to these questions as you explore engaging STC Middle School lessons from the Smithsonian. Leave with resource materials. View »
• The Perfect Solution for ELA, Math, and Science Integration Join us as we bring the abstract learning of ELA and math content to conceptual understanding with Building Blocks of Science 3D View »
• The Pressure’s On: Creating and Using Models of Body Systems Create a model of a nephron and observe the movement of molecules through a semipermeable membrane. Activity includes a materials list and step-by-step procedures. View »
• Next Generation Dissection View »
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