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Fire Safety Spelling Worksheet
In this fire safety worksheet, students fill in the missing letters to fire safety vocabulary words that match up with their definitions. Students fill in missing letters for 15 words.
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Fire Safety Multiple Choice Definitions Worksheet
In this fire safety worksheet, students choose the correct definition for the fire safety word. Students complete 15 multiple choice questions.
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Fire Safety Quick Vocabulary Review Worksheet
In this fire safety instructional activity, students write fire safety words that match the definitions that they read. Students write 15 fire safety vocabulary words.
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When Turtle Grew Feathers
Students discuss being a friend and sing songs about friendship. In this friendship lesson, students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers. Students answer questions about the friends in the story. Students discuss the...
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Season of an Apple Tree
Students identify how seasonal changes affect plant growth. In this agricultural lesson, students read The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree and are shown pictures of how apple trees blossom through the seasons. Students match each picture...
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What does the U.S. rice farmer use to grow rice?
Students discuss how a farmer grows rice. In this rice instructional activity, students discover the different tools needed to grow rice and how rice is cut and cleaned. They draw a picture of a rice farm.
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Animals of the Arctic
Students discover the animals that make the Canadian Arctic their home. In this Arctic animals lesson, students research the animals that live in the region and create posters that feature their findings.
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Ecosystems
In this ecosystems worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with 35 questions about the different types of ecosystems and organisms in them.
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Patty's Pumpkin Patch
Learners explore Halloween by examining pumpkins in class. For this pumpkin observation lesson, students discuss the method in which pumpkins are grown and the time line it takes a pumpkin to grow from a seed. Learners read a pumpkin...
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Immersion Presents Monterey Bay
Students study Monterey Bay. For this Monterey Bay lesson, students create a model of upwelling around Monterey Bay. Students simulate surface water movement relative to prevailing winds.
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A Seed Dispersal Investigation
Students investigate the function and purpose of seed dispersal. In this garden lesson plan, students examine the importance of wind in the plant cycle. Students construct a flying seed model from an attached design and discuss if it can...
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Pollination Station
Students investigate why and how bees pollinate flowers and other plants. They define pollination, and read and sing along with the song "Yo, i'm a Flower." Students examine a diagram of a flower, simulate bees pollinating flowers, and...
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Music of the Estuary
Students explore the sounds of the estuary. In this wetlands lesson, students discuss how to simulate the sounds of nature. Students write and record a musical score featuring the sounds of the wetlands.
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Blackberries
Students read and answer questions about other animals that like blackberries besides humans. In this blackberries lesson plan, students read about what animals like to eat blackberries and what they do for them.
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Tides and How Creatures Survive
Students discover tidal pools. In this oceanographic lesson plan, students observe the tides of the earth and the creatures that inhabit the intertidal zones. Students role-play the tidal zones by portraying themselves as...
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Measuring Rainfall
In this activity, students will make a gauge to measure rainfall and see how much rain falls over several days.
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Can You Hear It?
Students work together to discover the concept of echolocation. They examine dolphins and their behaviors. They discuss how humans could use this information to help them in their everyday lives as well.
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Breaking Beams
Students work together designing and building their own beams. They discover the concepts of stress and strain. They participate in a competition to determine the best beam.
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Here Comes the Rain
Second graders help to prepare a model of the water cycle before the conduction of this experiment. They use the model in order to observe changes that happen to water when it changes states of matter.
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Up, Up, and Away
Second graders observe the changes that water has when there is a change in a state of matter. In this lesson they observe the results of applying heat to water with the end result of conversion to a gas.
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Making New Electricity
Students investigate the concepts of energy conversion and conservation. They research the history of energy conversions into electrical energy. They design experiments in order to replicate a conversion of energy into electricity.
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What is a Ruminant?
Students examine the way bison eat and digest their food. Using a diagram, they follow the food from one compartment to the next. They discover that bison are ruminants and discuss why the bison need four stomachs.
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How Much Water Does A Tree Transpire In A Day
Students engage in a lesson of investigating the amount of water that is transpired in a one day cycle. They conduct research to find the purpose of transpiration and find information to explain the value to a plant and explain how...
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Earthquake Analysis
Students analyze and plot the coordinates for several recent earthquakes on a world map. They learn not only about research and geology, but about map-making and data analysis. They think of other ways to analyze the data given.