Here is a 14-page lesson plan that deftly outlines a wonderful educational experience for your youngsters. In it, learners learn about a variety of animals that have left behind clues of their existence in fossil form. Many excellent...

Students discuss fossils. In this science instructional activity, students simulate fossils within Earth's layers by using gummy fish and bread.

Students can better explain how mould and cast fossils occur when they make their own cast fossils using plaster of Paris and objects such as shells, bone or even their own hand or footprint.

Learners make a mold using Plaster of Paris and then make a cast using that same mold. They pick a fossil and describe how it looks. They write a fictionalized story about its life, or burial. (

Fourth graders create enlarged replica of a stegosaurus drawing, using a grid to practice coordinates.

Garbage, recycle, compost: Does it really matter where we put our trash once we are done? By making detailed observations over seven weeks, kids will see which materials break down naturally to become a healthy part of the soil, and...

High schoolers are asked to use their imaginations to take the idea of biotechnology one step further. Before beginning this activity high schoolers read and complete a report on the book "Jurassic Park," which deals with the use of...

Students discuss, develop, invent, and implement a plan for making informed personal economic decisions about renewable resources.

Students explore the issue of climate change through participation in an interactive game show. They explore climate change issues in the news. Students write and discuss their own questions about climate change.

Students explore earth epochs, i.e, Permian, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordivician and through pictures they see what life on Earth and animals looked like. They organize Earth Epochs according to years going from greatest to least...