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Health Education: Body Fluids
Second graders take part in a germ experiment. In this personal health lesson plan, 2nd graders summarize appropriate measures to prevent contact with the body fluids of others.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Taking Action
Students create a human rights project based on their lesson with Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In this human rights lesson, students participate in a humanitarian gesture as volunteers by creating a human rights...
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Better English Lessons: Fishy Birds
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 20 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences. Answers are scored immediately.
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Naked to the Eye
Sixth graders study microorganisms. In this microorganism instructional activity, 6th graders explore the form and function of these organisms. Students use magnification during experiments on bread.
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Newton Must have Been a Sports Fan
Learners examine Newton's Laws. In this law of motion lesson, students observe Newton's three laws of physics demonstrated by the teacher. They apply other examples to Newton's first law of inertia.
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Math: Counting on Others
Students use counting skills to decide who wins the Classroom Winter Games. They use numeral writing and tally marks to keep score. Students have an opportunity to pretend they are competing for medals in the Winter Games while using...
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Odyssey of Life, Part II-The Unknown World
Students complete an experiment in which they observe different natural sample in which they uncover the microbial world. They complete a two part worksheet that accompanies the lesson.
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What is a Cloud?
Third graders identify a cloud and explore how they form. They create an acrostic poem about clouds.
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Microbes and Health
Sixth graders become acquainted with the concept of how microorganisms cause disease. They role play that some class members have exhibited some alarming symptoms. Groups must determine which disease the symptoms are pointing to.
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Survival of the Fittest
Students explore plant needs and growth. In this plant science lesson, students use a cereal box to complete a plant growth graph activity.
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What is an Electromagnet?
Students give examples of electromagnet applications. In this physics activity, students explore what makes electromagnets work. They experiment picking paper clips with it.
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Let's Think About... Change
Students observe various examples of "change." They mix paint to cereate new colors, eat bread and then toasted bread, and match baby pictures with pictures of how the same people look in the present. Finally, they watch a bouquet of...
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the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability And Change
Students analyze the consequences of changing variables on a system. Changes in a model are measured and recorded and conclusions drawn based on the data provided in this six lessons unit.
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Can Fun Gus Help Plants/Trees Grow?
Students participate in an experiment in which they test the growth of different types of plants. They discover how growth rates vary using inoculum. They draw pictures and are read books about plants to end the lesson.
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Most Troublesome Exotic Invasive Plant Species Web Quest
Students participate in a Web Quest activity in which they identify common exotic invasive plant species of the Southern Appalachian Region. After identifying the top 10 exotic invasive species, they choose one to research in depth.
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Grammar
In this grammar worksheet, learners add -ing to the verbs in eight sentences. For example, "The dolphins were swim...and play...in the ocean."
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Concrete Lesson Plan
Learners describe the difference between cement and concrete. In this technology lesson, students explain the mixing process of concrete. They discuss its importance in the modern world.
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Dino Fossils
Primary paleontologists discover the information they can gather from examining fossils. They place pictures in the correct sequence showing how an animal becomes a fossil. They discuss which sediments would preserve fossils better as well.
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Jerry the Beaver: Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension worksheet, students read a short paragraph about a beaver, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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Houses and the People They Shelter
Students examine different homes and shelters across cultures and time periods. In this Houses and the People They Shelter lesson, students draw conclusions about society and culture according to the features of their dwellings. Students...
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Energy Defined
Fourth graders complete activities to study the sources of energy and forms. In this energy activity, 4th graders discuss the origin of energy and define it. Students participate in several experiments to further study energy including a...
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Fly Swatter Painting
Students create their own painting with fly swatters. In this art lesson, students go outside and paint on the wall with the fly swatters.
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Egg Hatching into Sequencing
Students create an egg. In this language arts lesson, students create an egg and then take photographs as the egg is being hatched. Students write about the sequence of the hatching.