We had a great time at West Coast APPLES! Here are some highlights from the week.

Each year Springfield Elementary in Pennsylvania raises and releases Monarch caterpillars.  This year, Paul Broadwater, an eleventh grade student at Northwestern High School, created an inquiry video that could be used for future elementary science lessons. The video can be streamed from https://vimeo.com/277514883    

Reflecting back on a project that was proposed for a Donors’ Choose Grant From Petal to Palette: Painting With Extracted Flower Pigments posted Sep 28, 2017, 11:59 AM by Cinda Murray   [ updated Sep 28, 2017, 11:59 AM ] Each year we host a Weekend With the Arts event where students display their original works of art. Unfortunately, many […]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/buyzadGGsZz3za599 I created a time lapse video of ice melting using google photos.

I just made my first time lapse video! Check out ice melting on a hot day in June.

This is Fernando Vargas from Arroyo Valley High School in San Bernardino, CA. I applied to this program in hopes to beef up my photosynthesis unit by incorporating plant phenology and real world scientific data. This program has exceeded my expectations as I have met great science teachers from around the country. This program has given me resources to use […]

Silkworm Colony.  Students grew two colonies of silkworms under two different temperature regimes.

Plants, plants, and more plants! I have learned so much about plants today! We started with a plant scavenger hunt. Look at all the different types of plant parts we collected. We also did a plant biodiversity study in the arboretum and I saw these interesting plants. The first picture is of a plant gall on an oak tree.   We ended our […]

What an amazing workshop! lots of new tools to help explore plant phenology