Lesson Plans & Activities

Sherlock NOx: The Mystery of Unnatural Pollution in Natural Places

The four DISCOVER-AQ modules can be completed independently, sequentially, or extended into a larger unit of study.

Students take virtual field trips to explore air quality research sites and investigate the causes, effects, and solutions to nitrogen deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park during this module.

Lesson
Middle School
Population Estimates: Bringing Math and Science Together

Project EXTREMES lessons were written to be stand alone lessons, but this activity may be used prior to a field study to provide students with practice in estimating or used in a unit on ecosystems.

During this activity students will learn how to estimate population size using two techniques, density extrapolation and the mark-recapture method.

Lesson
Middle School
Data Puzzle: The Tipping Point

This data puzzle is a stand-alone lesson that is part of a larger collection of data puzzles.

Plants like moss campion are uniquely adapted to the cold, dry climate characteristic of the tundra biome...but temperatures are on the rise. In this Data Puzzle, students analyze temperature and reproduction data to construct explanatory models for the following question "How is moss campion reproduction affected by temperature?"
Data Puzzle
Middle School
High School
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