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Heart to Heart
Learners predict the outcome of a question and conduct a survey and record their findings on a bar graph.
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Investigations into Estimations
Students gain the powerful tools of estimation, prediction, and averaging and discover the importance these tools have in daily living.
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Lesson Plan on the Edmund Fitzgerald
Fourth graders describe the weather conditions and location of the Edmund Fitzgerald when it sank in Lake Superior.
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Are You Sure They Lived Happily Ever After?
Students listen to a read aloud of Jon Scieszka's, The Frog Prince. They predict what happens after the frog prince marries his princess.
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Finding Your Stride Length
Students participate in an estimation activity to determine the length of a hallway or to estimate how many people can fit in the school stadium or gym.
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Predicting Plant Coverage
High schoolers participate in simulation as they examine vegetation in a square meter land plot. Students construct charts and a key to make predicitons about other land plots.
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Probability with Number Cubes
Second graders make sampling predictions, predict outcomes and explore probability through experimentation.
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The Five Senses - Observation, Experimentation, Prediction, and Categorization.
First graders engage in this creative and well-designed lesson. They rotate through five learning stations, each devoted to one of the senses. They practice observation, experimentation, prediction, and categorization.
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Critical Literacy In The 21st Century
Students read the book Sitti's Secrets and complete prediction and comprehension activities. In this literacy lesson plan, students also write questions and comments they have on chart paper.
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Using Energy Resources Wisely
Learners discuss energy resources. In this energy lesson plan, students predict which item: the plastic cup, metal soup can, or foam cup, will keep water warm for the longest time by measuring the temperature in each item every...
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A Weekend with Wendell
Pupils discuss the term prediction. In this language arts activity, students predict what will happen next by using the turn & talk strategy. Pupils chart the predictions each one makes.
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Environmental Graphing
Students experiment with graphing. In this graphing introduction lesson, students complete four activities: 1) a bar graph based on class birthdays 2) an estimation graph of the raisins in raisin bread 3) another estimation example with...
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Help Save the Polar Bear
Pupils use ice cubes to demonstrate how the polar ice caps are melting and how it effects the polar bears. In this polar bear lesson plan, the teacher explains how polar bears live on the north pole and how they are having trouble due to...
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Groundhog Day Word Search Puzzle
In this holiday worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to Groundhog Day. There are twelve words located in the puzzle.
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Technology Lesson Plan
Learners measure various objects using non-standard units. The goal is for them to practice measuring in order to apply the physical act to various objects found in the classroom. The lesson is ideal for the kinesthetic learners and...
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Is it Partly Cloudy or Partly Sunny?
Students investigate the concept of weather and how it is created. They review relevant vocabulary related to weather. Students predict weather given slight background knowledge. The lesson includes background information for the...
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How Do They "Whether" the Weather
Sixth graders are engaged in learning about weather systems, weather patterns and how to create a local forecast through a KCTS video called: "How Do They "Whether" the Weather?" Students actively learn how movements in atmosphere are...
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Weather In Our World
Students examine the concept of weather prediction through a variety of activities: video, discussion, art, storytelling and exploration. They read an aneroid barometer and tell what it measures.
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Graphing the Elephant Seal Population Data
Young scholars are able to graph data that they generated in the elephant seal exercise using proper format and labeling. They are able to interpret the graphs they created and make A) conclusions, and B) predictions based on that graph.
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Checking Weather Forecasts
Students record a four or five day weather forecast. They check the actual weather and compare it with the forecast.
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Health and Physical Education
Second graders read the story, Just a Minute. They create books with physical activities listed. They predict how many times they can perform that activity in one minute.