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- All about trash
- Students will discover which kinds of trash break down naturally and which do not when they make their own landfills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Dawn Gilbert.
- Embryology: Hatching baby chicks
- This lesson integrates science, math, communication skills, arts, and social studies through hands-on activities. Students are directly involved in hatching baby chicks.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 and 4 Science)
- By Ann White.
- Five days, five senses
- In this lesson, students will learn about the five senses through observations and hands-on activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Nancy Ziegler.
- From dirt to dinner
- This lesson serves as an introductory study of the plant world. The lesson allows students to study seeds, parts of plants, microclimates, and how to grow seeds into vegetable plants for harvest. Parents are encouraged to assist at home.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Glenn Bass.
- 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 down & dirty with soils
- In this lesson, we will explore different kinds of soil (humus, sand, clay). The students will plant seeds in the different soils as part of further exploration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Amy Rhyne, Paulette Keys, and Sarah Carson.
- Growing cooties
- This lesson teaches the importance of washing hands to reduce the spread of germs. In this lesson, students will see mold develop over time on a potato as the result of handling the potato with dirty hands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living)
- By Ronda Odenwelder.
- Inside a baby seed
- Students will identify the three main parts of a seed after the bean/seeds have been soaked in water overnight.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Thelma Pike.
- Let's hear it for sound!
- This lesson will help students build an understanding of the concepts of sound (vibration, pitch) through participation in a variety of hands-on experiments. By observing, predicting, and analyzing results, students can actively investigate the science of sound.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Carol Helms.
- Magnetic magic
- Students will explore and experiment with a magnet's mysterious invisible strength by rotating through five hands-on centers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Thelma Pike.
- MaraLIMAthon
- Kindergarten students will work with an older grade buddy (we worked with 1st grade students) to make predictions, and then over a two-week period, see changes in lima bean growth, and be able to document the lima bean's progress. The buddies will work together to create an illustrated short story about lima bean characters that they create.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Kristi Waddle.
- Minerals and math
- Students will develop ways to create self-devised rules for classifying minerals and relate this information to scientific ways of classifying minerals according to their characteristics. They will then compile this information into a chart and convert parts of the chart into a line or bar graph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics and Science)
- By Courtney Richards.
- Nephelococcygia - Cloud watching
- As part of the 2nd grade science objectives dealing with weather, students will learn the various types of clouds as well as the term and the act of nephelococcygia -- cloud watching.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and Science)
- By Kelley James.
- Observing connections: Changing landscapes (Lesson 2)
- The students will learn about the changing environment through study and observation. They will reflect on these changes in the environment and create their own landscape and habitat. This is the second lesson in “Observing connections,” a series of three in which students are creating art based on their observations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education)
- By Lisa Mitchell.
- Savvy soil
- The students will compare and contrast the physical characteristics of three soils: clay, humus, and sand. They will create double bubble maps and list poems about the soils.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Karen Smith.
- Weathering the water cycle: Condensation
- This lesson introduces students to condensation as one phase of the water cycle. Through the use of the four lessons in this series students will learn that the water cycle is a continuous cycle. The other lessons in this series include lessons on evaporation and precipitation as well as a conclusion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Cathie Hill, Jackie Parker, and Karen Neilson.
