SavingYourSanity

Engage your students with this week-long derby car building project. This PowerPoint presentation will walk you and your students through the process and background knowledge needed to plan, design, and construct a sturdy vehicle ready to enter the pit. This project serves to reach engineering standards, but also can be used to touch on other topics, like energy transfers and calculating speed. This could be an independent project but is also great for group work and collaboration. I like to end

Make learning about structural and behavioral adaptations, natural selection, and mutations a creative and engaging experience, with some friendly student competition sprinkled on top. Students will love this project as they design, construct, and defend their new species against various biomes around the world. A step-by-step teacher direction page is included, as well as all the needed worksheets to complete it. This project includes the construction of a 3-D clay model of their new species bu

Add-on PowerPoint for the Adaptation/Natural Selection Clay Creature Battles resource found in my store.