In this activity, students brainstorm various ways that an uninflated balloon placed over a bottle's opening can be inflated without touching the balloon.
Air takes up space. It's only when air in the bottle escapes that more air is easily added!
Resource Type: Activities
In this lesson, students learn about the Japanese festival celebrating the appearance of cherry blossoms in the spring and analyze average bloom date data from over 1000 years of records to understand how climate has changed.
Resource Type: Activities
Find out how some wavelengths of light are scattered more than others producing blue skies and red sunsets.
Resource Type: Activities
This is Part 1 of Lesson 7 of Project Resilience curriculum.
Students will investigate various adaptation plans used throughout Louisiana to understand the necessary steps for designing an adaptation project.
Students investigate some of the ways carbon dioxide gets into and out of the atmosphere, and how this process affects our global climate.
Resource Type: Activities
The amount of CO2 is increasing, which has an impact on global climate. In this lesson, students will investigate some of the ways CO2 gets into and out of the atmosphere, and how this process might affect the overall balance in our world.
Are you in a place where snow falls in winter? If so, try catching snowflakes. Then take a close look. Can you find two snowflakes that look alike?
Resource Type: Activities
This is Part 3 of Lesson 3 of Project Resilience curriculum.
Students learn about the life cycle of brown shrimp and analyze data to investigate how fisheries are impacted due to environmental change.
This is Lesson 1 of the Project Resilience curriculum.
Students are introduced to the anchoring phenomenon: that coastal Louisiana is changing, and people in the region are vulnerable for many reasons. Students use a cooperative learning strategy to discover how coastal change is affecting people in these communities, and create a driving question board to motivate further exploration of this topic through student-generated questions.