This document outlines several science topics that can be taught across multiple classes and disciplines: 1) Forensic mysteries where students solve crimes by discovering clues and analyzing data using sciences like chemistry and biology. 2) Impacts of climate change on social studies, current events, weather modeling, and student predictions for the future. 3) Planetary systems discussing other star systems and using physics concepts to discover exoplanets and create scale models of the solar system. 4) Ecosystems and biodiversity examining the roles of different parts of an ecosystem through chemical analysis, hands-on composting activities, and studying earthworms' role in soil. 5) Field trips and hands-on activities to help students

1. Patricia Giordano
Auburn James
Tara Laneville

2. Forensic Mysteries to Solve
• Create a story where the students are investigators
solving a crime.
• Have the students discover “clues” and let them
puzzle out how to analyze the data.
• Can be used with many different sciences; Chemistry
to analyze evidence. Biology with genetics, Earth
Science, Physics for how to gather data, with tie-ins
to psychology and government classes.

3. Impacts of Climate Change
• Interconnected across many classes.
• Social Studies showing how other countries are
effected. Current events-droughts in MidWest and
storm cells in North East.
• Weather and modeling for past and future and how
they are different from what we see as normal.
• Make their own predictions for the
future. What changes have we seen that
Might or might not be from a changing
Climate.

4. Planetary Systems
• Discussion on other systems. Basic laws of physics
apply to all.
• Angular momentum and rotation from physics help
us discover new planets around distant stars. We
calculate and then search for planets based on the
results.
• Hands on activities based on ability and interests.
Create to scale model of our star system. Show
effects of the Moon on the Earth

5. Ecosystems and Biodiversity
• What makes an ecosystem. Examine life and
cycles within. What role does each part play.
• Chemical analysis- decomposition, chemical
reactions etc.
• Hands-on activities-Create your own compost.
• “Green” solutions- What can and can not be
composted/recycled and why.
• Biology look at earthworms and the role they
play in soil.

6. Tying it all together
• Field trips and activities if possible.
• Can help cement understanding and show real
world applications.
• Local parks, museums even going outside to
observe the weather can help students get a
better understanding of science outside the
classroom.

7. Tying it all together
• Field trips and activities if possible.
• Can help cement understanding and show real
world applications.
• Local parks, museums even going outside to
observe the weather can help students get a
better understanding of science outside the
classroom.