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Learning About Animal and Human Migration
Students can gain a greater understanding of human and animal behavior by studying migration.
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Graph Made Easy-Pre Test Questions
In this graphing pre test worksheet, students complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions. Page is labeled as a pretest, an answer link is provided.
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Feeding the Birds
Students build bird feeders. For this aviary lesson, students build different types of bird feeders. This web page includes information on which type of feeder attracts which birds and what food to use with the certain feeder type.
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Studying Pillow The Book
Learners investigate the content of The Pillow Book. They conduct research and complete journals about the readings. There are target questions to guide the writing and reflection process.
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Earth's Energy Balance Performance Standard
Students examine how Earth-Sun relationships affect Earth's energy balance and the pattern of world temperatures. Students study a Surface Temperature Regions map and write a paragraph describing the temperature pattern from the Equator...
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Poetry
Students review how clouds form rain, listen to the poem April Rain Song, discuss the saying April Showers Bring May Flowers, and participate in a craft activity.
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Precession
Students explain how Hipparchus, around 130 BC, used a shift in the predicted location of a lunar eclipse to detect a slight shift in the path of the Sun around the sky. They examine the elliptical orbit in which the Earth travels around...
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Your Own Greenhouse
Young scholars discuss the similarities between the Earth's atmosphere and a greenhouse. In this science lesson, students make their own greenhouses out of plastic bottles and thermometers. Young scholars record the temperature different...
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Interview with Mary B. Billie, Seminole Doll Maker
Students are introduced to the art of Seminole doll making. They view photos of Seminole dolls, listen to an interview with doll maker Mary B. Billie, answer questions about the interview and, using the presented information, create an...
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Vocabulary Quiz: Grade Three
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary words to the left with definitions to the right, 15 total. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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The Participial Phrase
Need a review practice exercise for participial phrases? The assumption here is that young grammarians are already familiar with the grammar principles and terms and are ready to show their understanding of participial phrases, and for...
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Water as a Cycle
Students collaborate with a partner to create a large diagram containing one aspect of the water cycle. They are encouraged to include academic language and pictures for their presentation. Their is a peer evaluation sheet that is...
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Changing How Things Look
Third graders use a literature study in order to investigate how organisms effect an ecosystem. They are asked questions about change taken from the book. Students also take a nature walk to make field observations.
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Billy Budd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the story 'Billy Budd' and then answer the comprehension questions for the story. Students complete 51 questions for the 30 chapters.
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World Climates Study Guide
In this geography skills learning exercise, students respond to 24 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions about the climate regions and characteristics of the world.
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Land of No Trees
In this Land of No Trees worksheet, students read a passage titled "Land of No Trees" about the Arctic Tundra and complete an experiment and short answer questions about it. Students complete an experiment with a plastic container, soil,...
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Unit of Time Cards/Important Dates and Time Facts
In this reading and recording time instructional activity, students will cut out and match 48 unit of time flashcards. Then students will match 15 date and time facts cards with their missing half.
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Michael Jordan
In this Michael Jordan worksheet, learners read a 1 page reading on the life and basketball career of Michael Jordan. They then answer the 15 questions in the packet. The answers are located on the last page.
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Wetland Adaptation
Students participate in a simulation to investigate the impact of the wetland environment on the migration of birds. They discuss the patterns of migration they took and why they avoided certain wetlands.
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Wetland Adaptation
Fourth graders study the impact of the wetland environment on the migration of birds. They make a list of the important reasons on a large piece of paper to be posted in the classroom and point out the biggest wetland in the state (The...
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Outdoor Observation
Young scholars use observation materials to record what they find outdoors. In this senses lesson plan, students use their five senses to observe things outside. They use a clipboard, pencil, crayons, magnifying glass, and their senses...
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Holidays: Often Happy, Sometimes Sad
Young scholars examine holiday stress. In this current events instructional activity, students read the provided article "Holiday Stories from Street Corner and Coffee Shop." Young scholars respond to the provided discussion questions.
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Investigating the Dynamic Martian Polar Caps
Students download NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the Martian polar ice caps in summer and winter, and measure and compare various images of the changing Martian and Earth polar ice caps.
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Splish Splash: Daily Use of Water
Pupils assess their daily use of water and write stories about how water is used in their lives and communities. Students read about water usage in Ghana and Kenya and compare and contrast water usage and resources between the countries.