Classroom Activities
Engaging, hands-on classroom activities for students of all ages

Here you'll find over 95 fun activities for elementary, middle, and high school students from Carolina and Discovery Education®. Make sure you have everything for your classroom and also browse through our Instruction Manuals, Care Sheets, and Lab & Chemical Safety information. Browse through the alphabetical list below or use our Content Search to the right to find resources on a specific topic.
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During cold and flu season, use Glo Germ™ to communicate the importance of hand washing to your students.
This article contains AP Biology daily lesson plans curriculum.
Learn how to develop a water quality monitoring program.
Conducting a perch dissection lab gives students a hands-on understanding of the fish’s anatomy and how water quality affects its physiology
The measurement of pH is critical to many fields, including medicine, biology, chemistry, and environmental science, and thus has many applications in daily life.
This activity introduces students to an enzyme reaction.
Frogs are excellent specimens for studying organ systems and for giving your students a hands-on appreciation of the complexity of a living organism.
This experiment links genotype to phenotype and puts a contemporary spin on an old standby of classical genetics.
See how biochar, biological charcoal, can increase global sustainability.
See how to teach your students transposable elements (TEs), also known as “jumping genes,” with this article.
In this activity, students will observe muscle structure and experiment with different solutions that make the muscle contract.
Introduce plant transpiration to your students with this activity from Ohaus®.
Use this activity to introduce your students to chromatography.
Learn about the benefits of vacuum-packed and pail-packed specimen packaging and storage options.
This article provides tips on how to fit an electrophoresis lab into a schedule based on relatively short classroom periods.
Here is an easy-to-follow dissection lab for a young scientist that covers the basics of animal anatomy using the frog, earthworm, crayfish, and grasshopper.
We've compiled a list of our favorite resources here.
PuffN's are environmentally friendly packing materials. They can be reused as packing material, molded into sculptures, or studied in the series of interesting classroom activities.
Here are 24 fun activities to do with Carolina's Glofish®.
A study of fermentation by yeast is an interesting extension of AP® Biology Lab 5 Cell Respiration.
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