Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Can We Help Save the Earth?
The children will compare two texts: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton and Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet, about an old house and an animal's home respectively, using a Venn Diagram. They should be guided to address the...
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Earth's Birthday Project: Educating About the Earth
This site is loaded with science activities for elementary students. There are role plays, recipes, dances, writing exercises and craft ideas. You can also raise you own luna moths, praying mantids, ladybugs or carnivorous plants. Lots...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Rotation of the Earth
A KWL activity combined with a demonstration model. Pupils record their ideas and questions about why we have day and night. They then shine a flashlight (the Sun) on a rotating styrofoam ball (the Earth) and record their observations....