Fourth graders choose a character from a magazine, complete a character sketch, and develop a short story placing this character in a situation. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which guides them through creating their...

Young scholars explore co-operation by researching ocean life. In this fish science lesson, students identify many vocabulary terms associated with oceanography and discuss what group foraging means among fish. Young scholars utilize...

Young scholars create a geometric cardboard sculpture covered with personal drawings.

Students plant flowers for others. They care for flowers. They summarize experiences through drawing, discussions and writing.

Students create a collage of habitats in which insects are found.

Fourth graders create their own stories with a life lesson and illustrate them.

Students explore symbols in art and complete related activities. In this art symbols lesson plan, students compare symbols they recognize to those of an African culture. Students create a collaborative work of art with symbols that have...

Young scholars observe a photograph and make inferences.  In this investigative lesson students study how to find facts in pictures and draw inferences from them. 

This site has a collection of learning activities, games, experiments, and lesson plans on the five senses. Organized by grade level and topic, this site is packed with an assortment of interactive and engaging activities, that would...

Learn how the sense organs are structured and how they function to provide you with five senses.

For dozens of years it has been believed that the brain is organized into "sensory areas": that is, that there is a "visual area," an "auditory area," and so forth, and that the visual area can only process visual information. It has...

Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains how the skin, as a sense organ, allows us to touch and feel.

Describes experiments students can do to investigate the sense of smell. The experiments target either grades K-6 and 3-12.

This informative site provides information on the olfactory receptors, olfactory epithelium, and olfactory bulb. Detailed drawing supplement the text along with an animation that depicts the movement of molecules through the nose.

This extensive lesson plan covers various topics about how animals interact with their environment. Topics include how animals sense their environment, how environments and organisms change together, and how animals use their senses to...

Do you know what the largest sensory organ of the body is? Use this site on skin and its sense of touch to learn more.

Young scholars will engage in a lesson that teaches them to associate certain expressions and words with specific feelings. Included are a senses PowerPoint, a model of a graphic organizer, and a video and picture of the students engaged...

What do you know about the brain? In this early learners lesson, students will explore the basic functions and characteristics of the brain and skull, and also learn about three major structures in the brain: the cerebrum, cerebellum and...

After exploring the scenario of how a pit-viper may get his midnight snack, students learn about the infrared sense of a pit-viper. They then discuss how infrared technology has helped in our society.

Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This would be...

Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...

Students learn about electricity and air pollution while building devices to measure volatile organic compounds (VOC) by attaching VOC sensors to prototyping boards. In the second part of the activity, students evaluate the impact of...

Learn more about the six senses that sharks use to hunt. Descriptions and pictures of each sensory organ are provided.

In this instructional activity, young scholars will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and...