Conference & Workshop Materials
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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 »
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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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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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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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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Dry Ice Explosion
Demonstrate the physical states of carbon dioxide with the help of this video. 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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