Conference & Workshop Materials
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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