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Transform students into young scientists with simple hands-on dissections. This workshop guides you through dissection of a squid and a frog. View »
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 »
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 »
Learn how to plant and teach with Fast Plants®. Ideal for all grade levels, they are easily used to explore many scientific concepts. View »
Rockets zoom and race cars zip. Experience how Carolina makes it easy to incorporate STEM into chemistry and physical science. View »
Explore easy, engaging, and safe chemistry activities that will produce a reaction in your students. View »
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 »
Discover fun, simple activities with live organisms that you can use in your labs. Learn about care, handling, and ways to introduce inquiry. View »
Explore animal diversity during this workshop that compares anatomical adaptations of the pig, rat, dogfish, and frog. View »
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 »
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 »
This workshop explores methods to estimate population size, determine the effects of habitat degradation, and investigate organisms' habitat preference. View »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Pollution remediation is a messy but necessary business. Experience hands-on environmental science activities that model the techniques used to clean up pollution. View »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
This comparative dissection workshop explores 4 mammalian organs and their structures, using superior quality Carolina’s Perfect Solution® preserved specimens. View »
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 »
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 »
Experience firsthand the 5 innovations of NGSS from the Smithsonian's middle school chemistry unit, Matter and Its Interactions. View »
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 »
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 »
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 »
This dissection activity introduces students to the anatomy of the mammalian eye. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Gain an understanding of animal behavior, habitat, and other environmental and ecological concepts with interlocking choice chambers. View »
This activity allows you to observe and record root and shoot development and create a unique necklace from Wisconsin Fast Plants® seed. View »
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 »
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 »
Dissecting a frog specimen is a great introduction to vertebrate anatomy. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Demonstrate the physical states of carbon dioxide with the help of this video. View »
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 »
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 »
Discover how water quality testing can be part of your curriculum. Plus, gain experience working with different types of water testing materials. View »
In this activity, students simulate cell divisions and identify various mutation patterns that lead to increases in the rate of cell division. View »
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 »
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 »
Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ supports increased sophistication of student thinking through developmental learning progressions. View »
Learn why science discourse is important as you explore engaging Building Blocks of Science 3D Lessons View »
Experience how Building Blocks of Science(tm) 3D helps students solve real world problems. View »
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 »
Join us as we bring the abstract learning of ELA and math content to conceptual understanding with Building Blocks of Science 3D View »
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 »
