Teacher Resources

Are YOU a teacher who wants to get their students excited in STEM careers? With each episode of Science Around Cincy, we will be sharing classroom resources to help local educators engage their kids with the videos. We want to help you build the next generation of scientists, inventors, engineers, and researchers!

Season 1

Videos	Resources	Topics	Grades
Clara do Amaral – Frog Cryobiologist	Discussion Guide: Clara do Amaral – Frog Cryobiologist Freezing Point Depression Lab	Life cycles of plants and animals, adaptations, solutions	3rd, Chemistry
Terri Roth and CREW – Extinction Savers	Discussion Guide: Terri Roth and Crew – Extinction Savers Modeling Genetic Diversity Activity	Environmental Changes and survival, population genetics	4th, Biology
Brooke Crowley – Chemistry Detective	Discussion Guide: Brooke Crowley – Chemistry Detective Modeling Half-Life Decay	Environmental Changes and survival, niches and food webs, atoms, atomic structure, nuclear chemistry	4th, 5th, 6th, Physical Science, Chemistry
Cory Christopher – Backyard Naturalist	Discussion Guide: Cory Christopher – Backyard Naturalist Native Garden Planner Pollinator Garden Observation Journal	Life cycles of plants and animals, niches and food webs, biomes, ecosystems	3rd, 5th, 7th, Biology
Brenda Hunda – Tails of the Trilobites	Discussion Guide: Dr. Brenda Hunda – Tails of the Trilobites Lab: Modeling Relative Dating and Laws of Stratigraphy	Adaptations, Fossils, Fossil Record, natural selection	3rd, 4th, 8th
Richard Lu – Genes on the Brain	Discussion Guide: Richard Lu – Genes on the Brain Mutation Telephone Activity	Cells, cellular structure, mutations	6th, Biology
Maria Espinola – Alternative Therapy	Maria Espinola – Discussion Guide	Social emotional learning
Bailing Out Heros	Egg Drop Challenge	Kinetic and potential energy, conservation of energy, net forces, forces	6th, 7th, 8th, Physical Science, Physics

Season 2

Videos	Resources	Topics	Grades
Mammoth Caves	Discussion Guide: Rachel Bosch – Mammoth Caves Mammoth Caves – Vocab Cards Modeling Physical and Chemical Weathering Erosion and Deposition Lab Stream Erosion and Deposition Lab	Erosion and deposition, earth’s surface	4th, 8th
Young Scientists	Rubber Band Rocketry	Nature of science, experimental set up, scientific method	3rd-12th
Geologic Timeline	Geologic Timeline Geology Timeline – Vocab Cards	Fossil, fossil record	4th, 8th
Gravitational Lensing		Stars, reflection, refraction, absorption, wave behavior	5th, physics
Expansion of the Universe	Modeling the Big Bang Expansion of the Universe – Vocab Cards	Stars, the Universe	5th, physical science
PawPaws with Great Parks of Hamilton County		Life cycles of plants and animals, adaptations	3rd
At Home Science: Finding Fossils		Fossils, fossil record	4th, 8th
The Rhined	The Rhined – Discussion Guide The Rhined – Vocab Cards Lab: Making Cheese	Cells, cellular processes	6th, biology
Science Around Cincy: Edge of the Farm	Edge of the Farm – Discussion Guide Edge of the Farm – Vocab Cards Activity – Native Garden Planner Pollinator Observation Journal	Ecosystems, Biomes, Invasive Species, Adaptations, biodiversity	3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, biology
How to find bus w/ The Bug Chicks
80 Acres Farms	80 Acres Farm – Discussion Guide UV Radiation and Plant Growth Lab	Niches, life cycles, cellular processes, robotics	3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th,
UC Power Plant	UC Power Plan – Discussion Guide Electromagnet lab	Types of energy, conservation of energy, electricity,	3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, Physical science
Morehouse Lab	Morehouse Lab – Discussion Guide Sexual Selection – Activity	Sexual selection, adaptations, natural selection, evolution,	4th, 8th, biology
Fire Chemistry w/ The Cincinnati Fire Department	Combustion reaction lab Oxygen and Flame Activity	Atoms, state changes, chemical properties, reactions, Thermodynamics	6th, 7th, physical science, chemistry
Nanotube technology	Nanotube Technology – Discussion Guide Lewis Dot Skittles Activity	Atoms, bonding, reactions. chemical properties	6th, 7th, physical science, chemistry

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