Students study comets and how Halley's comet was created.  In this space activity students create their own comets using dry ice.    

Students create soil profiles, including rock, clay, silt, sand, and humus, in clear plastic cups out of edible materials.

Students discover decomposition. In this environmental instructional activity, students explore different types of decomposers and their role within the ecosystem. Students also discover how waste interferes with the decomposition process.

Students investigate reading, cooking, and planting activities that teach that a carrot is the root of a plant. In this early childhood science lesson plan, students explore the world around them as they read The Carrot Seed and complete...

Young scholars hunt for dinosaur eggs that the teacher has made and hidden on the playground. students open the eggs to find the dinosaur inside and experience archeology first hand.

Students create a unique Mother's Day gift out of an old shoe.

Fourth graders construct a model of Indiana which displays the effects of the glacial period on the state's physical structure. Students work in groups to plan and execute their model based on an established rubric.

Students study various aspects of mucous. For this mucous lesson, students investigate the purpose of mucous. Students create fake mucous.

Students explore the importance of water conservation and investigate how plants clean water.

Third graders explore farfeche and how the Nez Perce people use natural materials to derive colors for their artwork. They explore traditional paints and dyes used by the Nez Perce and create their own parfleche 'isaptakay.