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An African Folktale

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students learn what a folktale is and illustrate their favorite part of the story The Orphan Boy. They also write a folk story that explains a natural phenomena.
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Climate in Our Back Yard

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students construct a "A Year in Pennsylvania" poster on which they creatively describe at least three examples of how the climate they live in shapes their lives during every season of the year.
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Does the Sun Influence the Temperature of the Earth?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils explore whether the sun influences the temperature of the earth.
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Looking for a Walrus

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sing and role-play the song "Looking for a Walrus" to explore walrus adaptations.
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The Naming of a Native American

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read and discuss Native American legends. They examine how the Native American name came about.
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Weather Forecasting Unit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners study weather concepts, mapping, characteristics in this series of lessons.
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Porosity And Permeability

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners participate in an exercise/experiment designed to show how environmental pollution can affect the quality of drinking water.
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King of the Mound

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate water as an agent of change. They conduct an experiment involving a mound of soil, observe and record any changes that occur when ice melts on the mound of dirt, and create a drawing of the changes that take place...
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The Energy Trail

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners examine the relationship between the products they use and energy use. Using the internet, they identify the role that manufacturing plays in using energy and the emissions that change the climate. They discover the steps to...
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Weather And The Seasons

For Teachers K
Students illustrate characteristics of the different seasons using digital and pen and paper drawings. They creat captions for their drawings and present them to the class. Students compare and contrast their pen and paper drawing...
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Ancient Cities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss ways homes, buildings and cities are designed for a particular climate and geography. Students use a chart and conduct library and online research to explore ways the Mayans and Incas developed their land based on...
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Beaver Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic...
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The Water Cycle/States of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the water cycle and different states of matter. They conduct research using a variety of resources in preparation for taking a quiz. Then students take the quiz in correlation to having...
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Reported Speech- Indirect Speech

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this reported speech worksheet, young scholars change 10 sentences into direct speech, change 18 sentences into indirect speech, and change 15 sentences to direct speech.
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Big Beautiful Cats

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this animal worksheet, young scholars become familiar with 8 different species of wild cats by reading an informative paragraph and examining a picture for each. Students complete a crossword puzzle about wild cats.
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Punctuation

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in either commas or semicolons to ten compound sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Haiku Written by Kids

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this Haiku poetry worksheet, students will read 20 examples of Haiku poems written by students. The poems are centered around nature.
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Suffixes -FUL, -LY, -NESS

For Students 3rd
In this suffixes worksheet, 3rd graders complete a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answers to eight clues associated with spelling words and suffixes.
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Fab Facts About Ice-Cream

For Students 5th - 7th
In this ice-cream learning exercise, students read an ice-cream facts passage and respond to 6 fill in the blank questions to decide how to create an ice-cream sundae.
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What to Wear?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this decision making worksheet, students complete 5 problems in which clues to the daily weather are read and appropriate clothing is chosen. Temperatures are in degrees Fahrenheit.
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Worksheet 13. Vocabulary Review

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students write the letter of the sentence that completes each conversation correctly. There are 6 conversations to complete.
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The Suffix-ous

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this suffix worksheet, students add -ous to a base word from the box to complete the sentences. Students then complete a challenge section.
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The Call of the Wild

For Students 5th - 6th
In this The Call of the Wild worksheets, students use questions to help them use them actively read and increase their reading comprehension for chapters one through seven in the book.
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Model Penguin Project

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students research and build model penguins. For this penguin lesson, students examine the anatomy of penguins by creating models and completing coloring pages.