Students create a Spring bulletin board. Students color and cut out frogs and attach them to pipe cleaners. The frogs then bounce and move. Students discuss frogs and how tadpoles become frogs.

I love this idea! After discussing rain, spring, and the weather, take your class outside and let nature do the painting. They shake power paints and glitter onto a piece of heavy construction paper, then take their paper outside and...

Celebrate the beauty of trees with a packet full of activities designed to help kindergarteners get to know about their leafy nature friends. Covering a variety of subjects, scholars go on a nature hike, read Shel Silverstein's The...

Students compare fall and spring. In this seasonal changes lesson, students read the book Apples and Pumpkins and discuss the fall season. The students then read It's Spring and describe the spring season. As a culminating activity,...

Elementary schoolers take a look at how the saguaro cactus adapts to the four seasons of the year. This amazing plant has distinct flowering and fruiting cycles within the summer season, and other cycles during the other seasons. Your...

Students learn about fall and spring by engaging in hands-on activities in order to fulfill science and language arts standards. In this instructional activity on seasons, students first listen to a story about fall, discuss the...

This Groundhog's Day, challenge scholars to predict, estimate, tally, and graph in a weather-themed lesson in which class members play the role of the groundhog to forecast the weather come February second. 

A simple activity for a simple, but special, holiday. Young learners read a brief history of Groundhog Day, practice reading aloud, and then discuss how shadows are formed.

Discover the nutritional wonders of apples and get to know Johnny Appleseed with a plethora of learning experiences that cover subjects math, history, English language arts, health, and arts and crafts. Activities include an apple...

Get your class outside to observe their surroundings with a lesson highlighting weather patterns and seasonal changes. First, learners take a weather walk to survey how the weather affects animals, people, plants, and trees during...

Students make a bat from a paper tube. They suspend bats from the ceiling or create a "cave" from black construction paper on a bulletin board or wall. Have students help you! Tape or staple student made bats in the "cave" to stress to...

Students examine different "cycles" that are found in nature, such as the water cycle and recycling. They create their own artwork about cycles to be displayed on a bulletin board

Here is a fabulous set of activities for your young scientists. Each lesson plan contains map, hands-on, and game activities that will help the class understand why and how animals migrate from one place to another. First they'll examine...

Students discover how things grow and how they can take better care of the environment in this Earth Day lesson plan for the elementary classroom. The activity can be accomplished in one day and left in the sun until the "beans" begin...

A great way to recall the parts of a flower is to make one. Little learners create sunflowers out of paint and paper plates. They also discuss and label the various parts of their flowers. 

Art projects are great when they apply to other subjects. First study insects, their parts, and their habitats. Then have little ones create a dragonfly. They use clothes pins, raffia, pipe-cleaners, and paint to construct their...

Who doesn't love a rainbow? Little ones adore them, so why not make rainbows the subject of your next art project. Your class can use watercolor to paint rainbows. As they do, have them identify the colors in the rainbow, talk about how...

Examine the weather of the four seasons, look at seasonal activities, and tell which months are part of each season with this lesson. Your class will play a game, sing a song, and write additional stanzas to seasonal poetry.

Students examine basic facts about the anaconda. They discuss the length of an anaconda, estimate the length of 33 feet, compare their estimate to the actual length, and decorate the paper snake with colored scales.

In this creative lesson plan on seeds, 1st graders listen as the book The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle is read to them about the life of a seed. Students then draw a picture to show the life cycle of a seed in each season.

Students design a habitat for an arthropod. In this organisms lesson plan, students read the book, A House is a House For Me. Students find an arthropod and create a terrarium.

Students examine whales and how they migrate.  For this whale lesson students research whales and their migration patterns.

Students explore how recycling helps save trees and protect the environment. For this environmental concern lesson, students color a handout of animals that live in forests. Students discuss how recycling paper can save trees and set up...