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Please contact us to discuss the possibility of licensing our IP for use in your programs. Below are descriptions and outlines regarding what we have available for you to use as lesson plans.

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Available Series

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Squishy Science Lesson Plans

6-9 Classes

In this series, your students make non-Newtonian fluids as many ways as possible. This includes slimes, ooblecks and quicksand. We will also learn about color, light, and physics. Every week during this week course the students will take home a creation that is as lovely or gross as they choose. This is a long-time student favorite. The course is non-cumulative, making it easy for after school programs where participants come and go.

Squishy Science Contains:

  • Canine Slime
  • Fluffy Snow Slime
  • Glow Slime
  • Magnetic Slime
  • Oobleck Slime
  • Quicksand
  • Shark Slime
  • Whale Slime
  • Stinky Slime
  • Unicorn Slime
  • … and more!

Gross Science Lessons Include:

  • Blood Slime
  • Zombie Guts
  • Kitten Poop
  • NASA Poop
  • Pee
  • Snot
  • Soap
  • Bubbles
  • Viruses

The Grossest Lesson Plans

1-9 Individual Lessons

This is for classrooms without a squeamish bone in their bodies. If you license these lessons you will work with fake poop, blood, pee and real bones. Students will make slime, germs and snot. Don’t worry, there is a soap lesson, too, and students learn about virus and bacteria transfer. Proper scientific terms for bodily functions will be discussed as well as why understanding these bodily functions is important. Every week results in a take-home “experiment!” The course is non-cumulative, and students may be substituted as needed, making it ideal for walk-in programs. We have 9 ways to be gross, so this course may run for up to 9 weeks, as desired.

A young scientist appears to be eating glittery snot. Rest assured, the snot is fake.
Avery, one of our teachers, sits relaxed on a big wide field with a student while launching her bright blue rocket in to the bright blue sky.

Space Art Series

1-17 Individual Lessons (With variations for Pre-K)

Using self-built rockets and paper lanterns students will explore the classifications of different astronomical bodies. All but one week of our course will result in a take-home piece of science and if you plan it, the pieces display well together as a mobile. The week without a take-home piece will be spent launching the rockets with compressed air. A large open field or parking lot and air compressor or tire pump is required for this one week. Aside from the week when we build and launch rockets, this course is non-cumulative, and makes it ideal for after school enrichment.

Space Art Lesson Plans:

  • Asteroids
  • Comets
  • Building and Launching Rockets
  • Constelations
  • Galaxy Pillows
  • Build a Gas Giants
  • Make a Moon
  • Make a Star
  • Orbits
  • Terrestrial Planet
  • Robot Hands
  • … and more!

Zombie Anatomy Has the Following Lessons:

  • Cinnamon Zombies
  • Heart Pump
  • Heart Types
  • Live Size Zombies
  • Lung Bottles
  • Organ Cage
  • Spines
  • The Skull
  • Vertebrae
  • X-Ray Hand
  • Zombie Animals
  • and Brainz!

Zombie Anatomy

1-12 Individual Lesson Plans

Possibly our most popular series. Your classroom will build projects around human anatomy including brains, skulls, gingerbread zombies, x-Ray hands, zombie animal drawings, life size anatomy drawings, working lungs and more! The course is non-cumulative, and students still learn about health and their bodies if they miss a week or two. This makes it great for classrooms with attendance problems. Honestly, sometimes this class fixes attendance problems.  It is a favorite at Manchester City Schools.

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SciArt Series

1-8 Lessons

This is a course designed for middle and high school students. Homework can be assigned, but give material tips you can implement if the homework is not completed. Students learn safe collection, accurate documentation and preservation techniques for a variety of sciences including conservation, geology, mycology, botany, and entomology. Students learn to identify their samples and then draw or paint their collected specimen. It is a fun introduction to a potential life-long hobby or even a scientific illustration career. The course is non-cumulative, like most of our lessons, making it ideal for casual classrooms.

SciArt Covers:

  • Geology
  • Botany
  • Entemology
  • Mycology
  • Comparative Anatomy
  • Game Play
  • Specimen Collection

Beautiful Motion Covers Many Concepts:

  • Balloon Rockets
  • Paint Catapults
  • Density Tubes
  • Double Glider
  • Exploding Art
  • Flying Lepidoptera
  • Helicopters
  • Hovercrafts
  • Hyperboloids
  • Paper Airplanes
  • Parachutes
  • Pendulum Painting
  • Spin Splatters
  • Vortex Bottles
  • Tracking Motion

Beautiful Motion/Physical Science

1-15 Lessons

If you choose this lesson plan, students are going to explore the physics of motion, the beauty of motion, how amazing it is that things fly, glide and move through the world with hands-on weekly projects. We make things glide, float, move, wiggle, spin and dance. We will trace motion with tools, create objects that glide, explore mechanisms of motion and in general, figure out how the world works. The course is non-cumulative, and students may be substituted until the class is full.

Susan Earnshaw
A group of children in jackets are surrounding a teacher, Amber Nicole, who is extending a puffball mushroom for the students to observe.

Sustainable Art/Science

1-9 Lessons

This series will focuses on recycled art, found objects, environmental protection and self-confidence. We collect and use trash, leaves, rocks, grocery bags, jars, water bottles and toilet paper rolls to make amazing art over the course weeks. Each lesson discusses the environment, recycling, our impact on nature and affordable art. The final lesson will recaps everything we have learned and establish year-long goals for your students. As usual, the lessons can be used stand-alone or in a set.

Sustainable Science and Art Covers:

  • Art from Trash
  • Stamping Using Recycled Materials
  • Collecting Specimens to Use in Negative Space Paintings
  • Biosphere Project
  • Turtle Ecology
  • Our Place in the Galaxy
  • Geodes

The Young Naturalist Covers Many Concepts:

  • Sharks and Whales
  • Prokaryote and Eukaryote Cells
  • Plants and Fungi
  • Lizards and Salamanders
  • Jellyfish and Octopuses
  • Insects and Arachnids
  • Moths and Butterflies
  • Dinosaurs and Birds

The Young Naturalist

1-8 Lessons

Every lesson we compare two living things that look very similar, but in reality, are very different. We compare lizards with salamanders, jellyfish with octopus, plants and fungi, butterfly to moths and insects to arachnids. Each week is a different activity with an equal breakdown between 3D and 2D projects. We
have even found a way to make a slime that feels like shark and whale skin to compare those two creatures. With this kinds of hands-on learning, students really understand and remember the difference. The lessons, as usual are non-cumulative.

Susan Earnshaw
A group of children in jackets are surrounding a teacher, Amber Nicole, who is extending a puffball mushroom for the students to observe.

Nutrition and Digestion

1-7 Lessons

Let’s make experiments and works of art that help students learn about calories, portion sizes, hydration, teeth health, fruits and vegetables and how food is fertilized and grown. We learn about insects, culinary and scientific classifications of our food, how to eat healthy, discuss “sometimes” foods and how to take care of our teeth. Every week results in a take-home project or experiment over the course weeks. One week results in a soft, child-sized toothbrush to ensure proper home-care. The course is non-cumulative.

Nutrition and Digestion Covers:

  • Bees
  • Saliva
  • Food Portions
  • Nutritional Treasures
  • Hydration
  • Vegetable VS Fruit
  • Digestion Cookies

Comic Arts Covers The Following Concepts:

  • Storytelling
  • Character Development
  • Isometric Views
  • The Grid
  • X Y Coordinates
  • Science Fiction
  • Bookbinding
  • Drawing

Comic Arts

6-9 Lessons

By popular request this series explores the writing, sketching editing and finalizing of a single comic over the weekly sessions. Advanced tools such as art pencils, quality marker paper, archival pens and field notebooks are recommended, along with instructional use. Geometry, the use of a grid, narrative development and drawing skill is covered in this course. This course is best with regular attendance. Absences may result in take-home work.

Susan Earnshaw
A group of children in jackets are surrounding a teacher, Amber Nicole, who is extending a puffball mushroom for the students to observe.

Draw Big

4-6 Lessons

Celebrating the active things we love to do outside of school, this is a drawing series focused on
physically large drawings. The students will create one or two large format drawings over the course weeks.
This course requires a large smooth drawing surface, preferably a floor, as well as a protected storage space
for drawings every week. We learn about math and ratios in this course and discuss the things we do to stay
active, why activity is important and how we can incorporate more activity in our favorite activities. This
course is best with regular attendance.

Draw Big Covers:

  • Ratios
  • Fractions
  • Drawing
  • Physical Activity
  • Teamwork

Mythical Creatures Covers The Following Concepts:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Marine Biology
  • Paleontology
  • The Drake Equation
  • Information Distribution
  • Colonialism
  • Exploration

Mythical Creatures

1-5 Lessons

“There be monsters here.” The unknown is forever unveiled through science. But while still shielded in mystery, cultures have long come to conclusions about what the natural world around them was. Beautiful stories, drawings and maps resulted in today’s known myths, such as Unicorns, Mermaids, Krakens and Dragons. We explore historical scientific unknowns with sculpture, paint, fabric and movement. What are today’s unknowns that we have created stories around?

Susan Earnshaw
A group of children in jackets are surrounding a teacher, Amber Nicole, who is extending a puffball mushroom for the students to observe.

Fine Art

2-8 Lessons

This is the scientific way to approach art materials and techniques. We use grids to develop technique and material arrays. Things like pencil mark-making techniques crossed with pencil hardness, wet/dry watercolor techniques and the CMYK/RYB primary color debate, acrylic mini paintings and clay color gradients are explored in methodical ways, helping us learn about the scientific process and center our thoughts. This series is a little intense for elementary students, but the right student/class might respond well. This series is focused best for middle and high school students. The series may be taught as a string of 8 classes or four series of two.

Fine Art Covers:

  • Array Development
  • RYB/CMY Color Theory
  • Texture and Mark-making Techniques
  • Watercolor
  • Pencil Hardness
  • Acrylic Paint
  • Lightweight Clay
  • Gradient

The Art of Giving Covers The Following Concepts:

  • Chemistry
  • Microbiology
  • Light Physics
  • Food Safety Science
  • Entomology
  • Geometry
  • Social Sciences

The Art of Giving

1-15 Lessons

Students will make a gift a week to give to family members, teachers and other people in their lives they wish to thank. Gifts include soaps, bath fizzes, paper lanterns, painted spoons, candles, wooden frames, window decorations and a card. These are the kinds of gifts you want to receive. Over the course weeks we cover the science and chemical reactions in soap, reflection and refraction in lanterns, food safety science, entomology, geometry and social sciences in this course. The course is non-cumulative, and students may be substituted until the class is full.

Susan Earnshaw
A group of children in jackets are surrounding a teacher, Amber Nicole, who is extending a puffball mushroom for the students to observe.

Silk Painting Summer Camp

5 Days of 10 Art and Science Integrated Lessons

Dying silk creates some of the most vibrant colors in the world. This stand-alone week-long program helps students understand the chemistry behind the colors they love to wear, and gives them hands-on projects so they can develop dyes using pH. They also learn about molecular polarity and tension of materials while creating colorful patterns and stretching their silk canvasses. And yes, it is real silk made by silk moths.

Silk Painting Camp Covers:

  • Color Theory
  • Analogous, Triadic, Complementary and Monochromatic Color Schemes
  • Dye Extraction
  • Acids and Bases
  • Resist and Molecular Polarity
  • Good Lab Practices
  • pH of Colors
  • Tension and Silk Stretching
  • Exhibition Development and Artwork Display