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Teaching Descriptive Word Usage

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice their creative writing by using descriptive words.  In this language arts lesson, 2nd graders utilize their best descriptive writing to elaborate on one of 20 different bean bag characters.  Students...
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A Science Experiment With Crayfish

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A crayfish can lead to a science experiment involving habitats, animal behavior, and anatomy..
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Mapping Animal Behavior

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss the value of sampling in science. They, in groups, map cricket movement in response to various stimuli and graph their results.
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Our Town

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss the variety of feelings and emotions they may experience when someone or something dies. They identify emotions they have experienced and examine how experiencing a wide range of feelings is normal after the loss of...
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Soulfully Remembered

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study about the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead to explore another culture's attitude towards death. They create collages reflecting the interests of and memories about someone who has passed away.
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Anne Frank: Nuremberg Laws

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research and discuss the Nuremberg Laws and their effect on the Jews during the Third Reich. They participate in role-play activity to see what it feels like to be discriminated against.
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Classification, Keys, and Phylogenetci Trees

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students analyze relationships about animals and create a model of classifications based on both the similarities and the differences. They also discuss a dichotomous key before they create a cladograph using different types of candy.
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Turtle Glyph

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Turtle Glyph worksheet, students color in different pieces of a turtle based on written directions. For example, "If you like turtles, color the 1 area green."
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Feral Cats

For Students 6th - 9th
In this geography worksheet, learners identify the feral cats of Australia. They read an excerpt and respond to the three questions that follow. Students also imagine that they are a part of scientific team that has been set up to deal...
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Data Handling

For Students 7th - 9th
In this data handling worksheet, students interpret data found in table, graphs and charts. They organize data and draw bar charts. This two-page worksheet contains 2 multi-step problems.
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Dogs, Dogs, and More Dogs!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this humane education worksheet, students read facts to educate students about the number of puppies produced by one unspayed dog in a year. Students solve eight math problems to total the number of puppies born to one unspayed dog in...
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Cats, Cats, and More Cats!

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this humane education instructional activity, students read the word problems, find the total number of kittens born in one year because of one unspayed female cat, and draw a conclusion about the importance of prevention methods....
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SI Units

For Teachers 8th - 10th
For this SI units worksheet, students solve 6 problems including converting from one unit of measurement in the metric system to another, estimating the mass of objects, and using the density of a metal to find its volume given the mass.
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Study the Fizz

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment to determine which bottle of soda has more dissolved carbon dioxide. In this solutions activity, students use the scientific method to test the amount of carbon dioxide in bottles of soda. They identify and explain...
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Hop To It!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore grasshoppers. For this grasshoppers lesson, students measure the jumping distance of live grasshoppers. Young scholars then record the jumping distance of people in their group. Students record the...
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Lesson Plans for Sweet Dreams: How Animals Sleep

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the sleeping patterns and sleeping habitats of animals. In this where animals sleep lesson, students research different animal species. Students also write and illustrate an animal picture book, make connections...
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Family Shield

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this family shield worksheet, students design a family shield. Students include the greatest accomplishment of their family and three things they are good at.
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Animals

For Students 6th - 9th
In this different types of animals instructional activity, students fill in a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answers to sixteen clues associated with different types of animals.
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Add or Subtract Part 2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, students write and solve 6 number sentences to find the answers to each word problem. Students write their answers in a sentence format.
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Dogs

For Students 3rd
In this informational comprehension worksheet, 3rd graders read the passage about dogs and complete 10 multiple choice questions about the passage.
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Art to Zoo: Memorials: Art for Remembering

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars examine how people from different societies and cultures remember those whom they have lost. In this lesson students analyze memorials from around the world, create their own, and find memorials that they have in their...
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Genetic Science Ethics

For Students 8th - 11th
In this genetic ethics worksheet, learners are given ten ethical questions regarding genetic defects, the possibility of gene therapy, test tube babies and creating a national DNA database. Students are given three choices for each...
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Using We or Us

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar activity, students read 10 different sentences and figure out if the sentence should contain the word "we" or "us."
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Invertebrate Diversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe different animals with bilateral symmetry. In this biology lesson, students compare how these animals move. They discuss the evolutionary history of observed animals.

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