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Walk, sleep, run, eat! We're constantly using energy, whether we're moving or not. In this lesson, students learn how their bodies are constantly converting potential energy into kinetic energy and kinetic energy back to potential energy.

Potential And Kinetic Energy

What is recycling all about? What can and can't be recycled? What can I do to help others understand the importance of recycling? This activity helps students answer all of these questions as they learn about saving planet Earth.

What is Recycling?

Life cycles go around and around! In this technology-integrated lesson, students will research various animal life cycles and write about them.

Animal Life Cycles, All Around

It&rsquo;s time to for your students to move onto learning more complex typing skills! This lesson teaches your students how to type capital letters, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks using correct finger placement.

Typing: Capital Letters and Punctuation

In this lesson, students will learn the term "troubleshooting" and practice solving problems using both tangible and virtual tools.

Troubleshooting

In this lesson, you will use “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to teach students about the butterfly life cycle. After listening to the story read aloud, students will use their knowledge to create their own butterfly life cycles! 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Butterfly's Life Cycle

Students connect dots to find stars used to navigate north and create a constellation of their own in this creative game format.

Constellation Connections

In this lesson, your students will explore the properties of solids and learn to describe them in various ways.


A Solid Investigation

Use this lesson to teach your students about the various types of forests by drawing them on a box!

Types Of Forests

Use this lesson to show your students the different types of solids, liquids, and gases. Show them how a solid turns into a liquid and how a liquid turns into a gas by using real life examples.

States Of Matter: Identifying Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Use this lesson to have your students research about a planet of their choice and present it to the class! This lesson will also give the creative students of your class an opportunity to make their own planets!

The Solar System: Learning about Planets

This lesson will make your students realize that even though they take their heart for granted, the heart is working hard to pump blood to different parts of the body to keep them healthy and running!

Heartbeats: Learning about the Heart

Root, stem, flower, leaf! In this hands-on science lesson, your students will create their own plants to help them identify and remember the parts of a plant.

Parts of a Plant

Heads up! Students become cloud experts before making custom clouds, complete with weather predictions!

I Spy Clouds

This lesson engages students in activity to help them understand the phases of the Moon, and why they occur. Students read literature, analyze it, and then apply it to the small group performance of one cycle of the Moon’s phases.

What's Your Phase?

Without natural resources, our world would be a very different place. Help your class understand the importance of water, plants, and soil with this exploratory science lesson.

Natural Resources

Every season comes with different celebrations! In this lesson, your students will learn about the seasons while exploring different ways that people celebrate events in each season.

Explore the Seasons

Use this lesson to teach your students about the different types of species and how to categorize them! Your students will learn characteristics about vertebrates and invertebrates.

Vertebrate or Invertebrate?

In this lesson, students will create a set of instructions for navigating a life-size maze.

Life-Size Maze

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

Students will learn their place in our solar system with this lesson that teaches them about different celestial bodies and their movement within the solar system.

Our Solar System: Turning Around

Transform the traditional egg drop experiment as you help students to engage in design thinking and develop empathy.

Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking

What do a bicycle and a car have in common? They both move using the simple machine wheel and axle. In this lesson, students learn about how this simple machine works, and will identify objects that use a wheel and axle.

Simple Machines: Wheel and Axle

We aren’t mind readers, but we can still figure out why the author wrote a text and what an author thinks about the topic! This lesson will teach your students the main purposes for writing.

Exploring Author's Purpose and Point of View

This lesson, perfect for first and second grade learners, will help kids become environmental activists as they think of ways to help the Earth! First, students will brainstorm examples of what it means to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Next, students will partake in a creative art project where they trace their hands and think of way ways they can give the planet a hand. This engaging activity integrates creative writing skills and Earth science.

Give the Planet a Hand!

Use this lesson to have your students learn about producers and consumers by pretending to be one.

Producers and Consumers!

Use this lesson to teach your students about the characteristics of mammals and birds. Teach them about unique mammals and birds that do not have the characteristics of the average mammal and bird.

Mammal or Bird?

Come on in, the water’s fun! In this activity, students see the water cycle in action with ordinary objects and learn the water the dinosaurs tasted is still around.

Got Water? How the Water Cycle Works

If you are studying the different types of rocks then this is the lesson for your class. This lesson will take your students beyond the textbook and into the environment. 

Rocks, Rocks, Everywhere

Use this lesson to teach your students the similarities and differences between Earth and the inner planets. They will be amazed by facts about our solar system!

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