Before and after your field trip to the Gardens, explore butterfly ecology with these lessons designed to meet Arizona State Science Standards for Kindergarten through 2nd grade.
Our weekly lesson plans offering hands-on activities, experiments and virtual teaching support to inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science. Targeting grades K-8, each week’s content offers 150 minutes of education aligned with the State of Arizona Science Standards.
In Outdoor Science, your student(s) will learn more about the plants and animals living in your very own environment through daily lessons, including hands-on activities, experiments, digital resources and active outside investigations.
Habitats, structures and functions of plants and animals, plant and animal adaptations, interdependence, and impacts of human-caused and natural changes to habitats.
Impacts of human activities on the environment, the interdependence of organisms and their environment, photosynthesis, heredity and natural selection.
Exploring properties of matter, motion, force, engineering design process.
Kinetic and potential energy, energy transfer, inertia, newton’s laws, engineering design process.
Engineering design process, pushes and pulls (forces), motion, gravity, friction.
Grades 6-8
Weather vs. climate, engineering design process, carbon cycle, greenhouse gases, climate change.
Types of weather conditions, climate, severe local weather events, engineering design process.
Types of weather, seasonal weather patterns, severe weather impacts on human populations, engineering design process.
Characteristics of organisms, habitats, feeding relationships, and survival strategies
