Lessons

UNITS AND LESSONS

FREE Sample Lesson

Click HERE for free access to the Flower Power lesson (3-5 grade band) from the EDC AITC unit, Bees and Blossoms. In this lesson students take on the role of botanists to understand the structure and function of flowers!

Teaching Repository

Your membership to the curriculum includes access to over 25 lesson units focused on 6 topics targeted to specific elementary or middle school grade levels. Below you’ll find lessons organized by topic and by grade band. For an overview of topics and what’s included, check out the curriculum page.

Lessons by Topic

Agricultural Engineering

Simple Machines (Grades 3-5)
Tilling with Tools (Grades 3-5)
Hydro Power Potential (Grades 3-5)
Think Thermally (Grades 6-8)

Apples

Quick Draw: The 6 Fs of Agriculture (Grades K-2)
Apples and Biodiversity (Grades K-2)
Journey of an Apple (Grades 3-5)
Sensing and Sorting Apples (Grades 3-5)
Think Globally, Apple Locally (Grades 3-5)
Apple Juice Engineer (Grades 3-5)

Bees

Honey, I’d Love to Dance (Grades K-2)
Buzzy Bees, Super Pollinators (Grades K-2)
Flower Power (Grades 3-5)
Bee Engineers (Grades 3-5)

Dormancy

Tree Greetings (Grades K-2)
Science Gaps: Building Blocks of Inquiry (Grades 3-5)
Evergreen vs. Deciduous (Grades 3-5)
Temperature, Trees and Survival (Grades 6-8)

Soil Health

Soil Erosion (Grades 6-8)
Worms - The Original Recyclers (Grades 3-5)
Percolation Exploration (Grades K-2)

Water

Survival Quick Draw (Grades K-2)
All About Water (Grades K-2)
What’s a Watershed? (Grades 3-5)
Journey of a Water Droplet (Grades 6-8)
Wholly Habitat (Grades 6-8)

Lessons by Grade Level

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Quick Draw: The 6 Fs of Agriculture (Apples)
Apples and Biodiversity (Apples)
Honey, I’d Love to Dance (Bees)
Buzzy Bees, Super Pollinators (Bees)
Tree Greetings (Dormancy)
Percolation Exploration (Soil Health)
Survival Quick Draw (Water)
All About Water (Water)

3rd Grade - 5th Grade

Simple Machines (Agricultural Engineering)
Tilling with Tools (Agricultural Engineering)
Hydro Power Potential (Agricultural Engineering)
Journey of an Apple (Apples)
Sensing and Sorting Apples (Apples)
Think Globally, Apple Locally (Apples)
Apple Juice Engineer (Apples)
Flower Power (Bees)
Bee Engineers (Bees)
Science Gaps: Building Blocks of Inquiry (Dormancy)
Evergreen vs. Deciduous (Dormancy)
Worms - The Original Recyclers (Soil Health)
What’s a Watershed? (Water)

6th Grade - 8th Grade

Think Thermally (Agricultural Engineering)
Temperature, Trees and Survival (Dormancy)
Soil Erosion (Soil Health)
Journey of a Water Droplet (Water)
Wholly Habitat (Water)

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