The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is to explore, explain, and sustain life.

Here you’ll find short, lively activities to focus your class trip, or full-period lessons to integrate into your yearly curriculum.

n this lesson, students learn how to sketch like scientists. You can teach it even if you think you can’t draw!

Lay the foundation for sketching by explicitly teaching the following techniques. That way, students will build the confidence and skills they need to sketch during science investigations.