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- Getting to know spiders
- This lesson is useful for helping students understand the differences between spiders and insects. They will also learn about a spider's particular body parts. Live spiders will be observed over the course of a few days to see how sound, light, and movement affect the spiders.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Bree Welmaker.
- An integrated lesson comparing the butterfly and frog life cycles
- Students will build on their prior knowledge about the butterfly life cycle to compare and contrast the life cycles of butterflies and frogs. Students will locate butterflies on the school grounds and create pictographs and models of fractions to explain their findings mathematically. Students will also use a variety of resources to read about and study the food, space and air needed by butterflies and frogs to grow. They will create visual and written products to demonstrate their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Development, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Martha Dobson and Margaret Monds.
- Is it a duck? Is it a chick?
- Students will compare and contrast the characteristics of a chick and a duckling by using a Venn Diagram.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Debbie Beeson.
- Using a Venn diagram to illustrate that bears and humans are both mammals.
- Students use their collected information on bears to compare them to humans through a Venn diagram, as preparation for an introduction to mammals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics and Science)
- By Susan Lovett.
