Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, students...

Fourth graders examine the animals who live in rice paddies and create a chart.  In this rice lesson, 4th graders link the types of animals living in each ecosystem with a bar graph. Students use colored bars to show...

Adorable! Most children are really drawn to animals. With this worksheet, they cut out eight darling drawings of animals and then affix each to a page divided in half according to whether it is a mammal or a reptile. If you need it, an...

Students inquire about animals using SIRS Discoverer or eLibrary Elementary.  In this organizing data lesson plan, students sort pictures of animals in various ways and develop graphs. Students locate a mammal, reptile, fish, insect...

The ways that animals adapt to their environments is quite remarkable. In this life science instructional activity, fifth graders take a look at some of the ways that aquatic animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic waters survive. They...

In this language arts and science worksheet, students analyze 10 pictures of African ungulates (hoofed animals) with scrambled names. Students decipher the names and write them correctly under each picture.

A two-part activity incorporating bar graphs and pie charts, young mathematicians can practice their graphing skills. Pupils answer questions using graphs and charts but are also challenged to create their own using a given set of data.

If Earth was formed 4600 million years ago, and the sun revolves about the center of the Milky Way once every 250 million years, how many revolutions have occurred? Students answer this question and ten more, all providing students with...