Two-cycle Engines

Barbers Motorcycle Museum

Join Mitch at Barber Motor Sports to learn about 2-Cycle engines as he takes apart a motorcycle and rebuilds it.

Integrated into the Physical Science content standards are the disciplinary core ideas of the Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science (ETS) domain, which require students to employ tools and materials to solve problems and to use representations to convey various design solutions.

Butterfly Life Cycle

Huntsville Botanical Gardens

Raine visits Huntsville Botanical Gardens to learn about the butterfly life cycle and plants that eat bugs.

Objective SCI.3.6.1: Define life cycle, birth, growth, reproduction, death, unique, and diverse.
Objective SCI.3.6.2: Differentiate among stages of the life cycle of various organisms.

DNA/RNA and Covid Testing

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Anderson builds a double helix DNA with candy

Objective B.3.1: Define deoxyribonucleic acids, ribonucleic acids, DNA replication, deletion, insertion, translocation, point shift and frame shift mutation. Objective B.3.3: Construct a model of DNA. Objective B.3.4: Identify the complementary nitrogen base pairs. Objective B.3.5: Explain the relationship between DNA, genes, and chromosomes.

Ocean Currents

Mobile Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Mitch builds a device for studying ocean currents at Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Objective SCI.6.13.4: Correlate the effect of ocean currents on weather patterns.