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Sculpt-a-Planet
Students study the moon and the planets. They create a painted, paper mache moon or planet sculpture.
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Recycling Water
In this water activity, students review the steps involved in the water cycle. This activity has 9 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions.
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Water Cycle and Ecosystems
Students explore the water cycle. In this investigative lesson plan, students examine the water cycle process. They will record their observations and discuss marine and freshwater ecosystems.
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Making a Globe
Learners participate in a creative project where they construct globes. They label specific places on the globe that helps them learn how to read an actual globe.
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Rocks and Rock Formation
In this rock formation activity, students read a 2 page detailed text about rocks and their formation. Students then answer 15 essay, matching and multiple choice questions about the information.
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Water Filtration Challenge
Students create an all-natural water filtration system. In this lesson on natural water filtration, students build upon prior knowledge to build a filtration unit made of plants, soils, sand, pebbles and rocks that can purify...
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Influential Scientists Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet
For this science vocabulary worksheet, students read the names of science professionals. From three choices, students choose the correct definition for each word.
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Recycling
In this recycling activity, students explore the topic of hazardous waste and then answer 8 fill in the blank questions pertaining to recycling.
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Deserts
What is it like in the desert? Inform your class on what makes a desert, the type of climate they'll find there, and the interesting plant and animals that live in the desert environment. This is a text-rich presentation that will...
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Aerosol Lesson: Volcano Types
Middle schoolers identify three types of volcano: cinder cone, composite, and shield.
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Rock Families
Pupils study the three types of rock characteristics; igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. They are divided into three groups and each group takes one of the rock characteristics. They then act out the characteristics of their rock...
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Design an Island
Learners explore islands. They create a two- or three-dimensional map of an island. They explain how the topography of an area influences the location of water sources, ecosystems, and human settlements. Lesson includes adaptations for...
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Introduction to Coral Reefs
Students identify locations of coral reefs, both in the water and around the globe, identify relative depth of corals in the ocean by observing behavior of cold and warm saltwater, and create models of coral reefs.
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Rock and Roll with Music and Movement
Fourth graders improvise music and dance to express their analysis of types of rocks. They discuss the three classes of rocks, list describing words, and create a short musical piece and dance to symbolize the rock they are dancing.
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Fossil Adventure
Students create a book about the process of a dinosaur becoming a fossil. In this earth science lesson plan, students are taught about fossils and create a book that tells what happened to a dinosaur's bones after they die.
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Mountains "Fold, Fault, Erupt, and Erode"
Fifth graders conduct an experiment to demonstrate the folding and rippling of rock to form a mountain. They identify mountain chains on a map, participate in the demonstrations, and define folding fault block, igneous eruptions, igneous...
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Prokaryote Coloring
In this prokaryote worksheet, students answer ten questions about prokaryote cells and they color a diagram of a simple bacteria cell and its structures.
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Capillary Action and Adhesion
Young scholars perform classroom experiments to observe adhesion. They perform a second experiment using sand, salt, water, and a heat lamp to observe the principle of capillary action. They also experiment with adhesion in plants.
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Rocks and Soil
Young scholars explore the physical properties of rocks. They explore the three different types of rocks and are able to compare and contrast their different properties. Students simulate the creation of sedimentary rock, they also...
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Making a Cave
Students discuss caves. In this science lesson, students experiment with how dissolution, a chemical weathering process, leads to the formation of caves. Once the cave is finsihed students draw a picture or describe in writing what it...
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Avalanche
Students investigate the concept of avalanches and how they effect people who use the slopes. They conduct research using multiple resources that includes the internet in order to create a final oral presentation.
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Volcanoes
Young scholars study volcanoes. For this volcanoes lesson, students read several volcano paragraphs and study the pictures or diagrams. Young scholars then make an erupting volcano, complete website research about volcanoes, and answer...
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Geology with Peanut Butter and Jelly
Pupils will enjoy smashing the two tectonic sandwich plates together in faulting and compression fashions! They may even desire to capture their instructional destruction in a slideshow.
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MLTI region
In this MLTI region learning exercise, students answer multiple choice questions about the MLTI region and other NASA missions. Students answer four questions.