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- Exploring pumpkins
- This lesson will allow students to use a variety of methods to explore pumpkins.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Science)
- By Angelia Braswell.
- From seed to plant
- This lesson will give students an opportunity to learn about seed parts, how a plant grows, and to compare plants.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Gretchen Barkowitz.
- 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.
- Going batty
- In this lesson students will hear the story Stellaluna by Janell Cannon and then create a Venn Diagram comparing bats to birds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills and Science)
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
- 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.
- Is it living?
- Students will identify living and nonliving things.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Genita Powell.
- Solving problems using simple machines
- This lesson uses the familiar story of the three pigs and the big bad wolf to explore how the wolf could have used simple machines to catch the three pigs. By reading, analyzing, and evaluating the wolf's use of simple machines in The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf by Mary Fetzer, the students will design and justify their own machine to help the wolf catch those pigs!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Allison Buckner and Maria Tanner.
- Tour of the solar system
- Students, in groups, will research, design, and create a PowerPoint presentation on the planets. The class will then take a “tour of the solar system.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Jennifer Mott.
- 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.
- Using Venn diagrams to compare and contrast
- In order to be able to compare and contrast weather in other places around the country and the world, the students will learn how to use a graphic organizer (Venn diagram) to visualize likeness and differences between two things.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Kelly Sharpe, Kathleen Hughes, Ruffin Priest, Sondra Walker, and Sandra McKee.
- Weather for the day
- In this lesson, students will use previous knowledge and classroom resources to determine current weather conditions and temperature.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Rhonda Hathcock.
- Wonderful whales
- Students will gain knowledge of whales: the kinds of whales, the characteristics of whales, and the habitats of whales. Math skills will be incorporated into the teaching facts about whales.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics and Science)
- By Robin Moss.
