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Homeschooling
In this homeschooling website, parents are provided with a variety of tools and articles for varying ages and lessons. Parents can browse topics, activities, and support groups.
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Solar System Alphabet Activity
For this solar system worksheet, 3rd graders explore the parts of the solar system. Students are given twenty-five words that relate to the solar system and are to put the words in alphabetical order.
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BASE-ic Space Travel
In this 3-day place-value lesson, upper-elementary kids investigate the base 5 and base 2 systems as an introduction to exponents and powers. They create a pocket chart to help ground their understanding of bases, exponents, and powers,...
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World Food
After reading a short paragraph about popular world foods, language learners complete a word search and answer eight questions based on the paragraph. No answer key is provided.
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Personality Adjectives
Men are sneakier then women! ESL/ELL classmates are asked to consider whether each word in a list of personality adjectives describes a positive or negative quality or whether the word could describe both positive and negative qualities....
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The Big Bang
Fifth graders relate the elements in the human body to those produced during a supernova. In this space science and chemistry lesson, 5th graders listen to a lecture and view visuals about the big bang. They relate the production of...
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It's Still Polaris
Young scholars observe the changing night sky over the course of an evening and chart the circumpolar stars as they traverse the sky in a progression around Polaris. They infer and discuss the cause of the changing star positions.
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Machines at Home
In this simple machines worksheet, students examine methods to reduce friction in simple machines and note 5 of them on the lines provided.
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Building Bridges
In this bridge building worksheet, students follow a set of instructions, making a bridge using books, poster- board, a ruler, toy car and sheet of paper.
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Good Habits
In this good habits worksheet, students complete the crossword puzzle with the terms about hygiene. Students finish 10 clues for the puzzle.
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Good Habits
For this word search worksheet, students use the given clues to help them complete the word search about healthy habits and hygiene.
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Good Habits Matching
In this healthy habits worksheet, learners read the first column and match them to the second column to detail several healthy habits.
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Mixed Prepositions
In this interactive prepositions learning exercise, students practice using prepositions in sentences. Students choose the correct preposition for each blank in the passage. There are fifteen in all.
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Finding Useful Sources
In this finding useful sources worksheet, students read about how to approach writing topics for their research. Students are given topic titles and they come up with new titles and a new direction for the research topics given.
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Heavens Above
Students study the stars and their positions. In this astronomy lesson students see how scientists can predict the positions of the stars and can tell how they would have appeared in the past.
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The Universe-Scientific Notation Extension
In this scientific notation worksheet, students write a set of 9 average distances in standard form, then complete 3 additional problems. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Exploring the Interstellar Medium
Students investigate the Interstellar Medium and the Local Bubble that the Sun is inside. They read and discuss a handout, answer discussion questions, observe a demonstration of light scattering, and conduct an experiment on the...
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Life Cycle Of Stars
Young scholars investigate the concept of stars and how they go through a life cycle. They take part in class discussion with the help of dialogue provided in the lesson plan. Students also view a powerpoint presentation for visual...
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Scientific Notation
Students observe the teacher writing numbers and determine the rules for scientific notation. After explanations, they perform operations on numbers in scientific nation and discuss reasons for using this method of writing numbers and...
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Astronomy Class
For this space science worksheet, students find the words associated with the basic terms of Astronomy. The answers are located at the bottom of the page.
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Quiz: Astronomy
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will focus on various aspects of astronomy. Students will respond to ten questions all pertaining to stars, constellations, planets, and our solar system.
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Collective Noun
In this collective nouns activity, students circle the collective nouns that best completes the 7 sentences. Students then read the sentences that use collective nouns as sentence openers.
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Theme
Students examine a reading selection. In this descriptive writing lesson, students read an excerpt from "Hello! Anybody Out There?". Students discuss the idea of aliens living on other planets, describe what they think an alien looks...
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Kid's Stuff Space Quiz
In this online interactive space quiz worksheet, students respond to 5 multiple choice questions. Students may check their answers for accuracy.