Climbing Blooms With A Science Lesson How I'd push a mere science demonstration to higher level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
The Marshmallow Challenge A fantastic fuzzy problem to start the year. Students use pasta and tape to try to get a marshmallow up as high as possible.
Updating Old Questions: The Planets’ Order Oops! I just asked my students to put the planets in order! Here's what I could do differently…
Creating A New Creature We're not doing a fluffy art project here. Kids are developing a realistic, made up creature that could have actually lived in a particular biome.
Reader Question: Unusual Animals A reader asks how we can take the typical "look up facts online and then present with PowerPoint" task to an appropriate level of challenge.
Updating Old Questions: Volcano from Two Perspectives Just because we have two perspectives doesn't mean we have a great question!
Taking A Zoologist Across Disciplines All I did was ask students to list and explain three "disciplines." Let's take it a bit further!
