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Preschool - 3rd Grade Science Lesson Plans : Page 3

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

Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking

How does your garden grow? In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension, vocabulary, and story sequencing. This hands-on art and literacy lesson is perfect for Earth Day, or any nature unit. 

Flower Garden: Literacy

Leap into a spring lesson plan about the water cycle, with the help of a friend in the book *The Little Raindrop*. Students will learn features of the water cycle and retell the journey of the raindrop verbally and in writing.

Spring Showers Water Cycle

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

Your students will love this lesson that teaches them about the life cycle of a chicken. It gives students the chance to visualize the steps that occur from a chick's birth to when it becomes a chicken!

The Life Cycle of a Chicken Art Project

Preschool students love to observe their environment. Invite them to discover how seeds grow and develop into plants with this class project-based lesson.

From Seeds to Plants

Students will go wild for this hands-on habitat lesson. Who can help the animals find their homes?

Where is My Home?

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

Help your students develop their motor skills and learn about structures with this lesson that has them build structures out of pipes and connectors. This activity will also encourage team work and let students use their imagination.

Pipe Construction

This five senses inspired lesson will get your students excited about using their observation skills as they go on a classroom scavenger hunt!

A Five Senses Adventure

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!

Teach your kids about the different parts of a tree with this neat lesson plan. Young scientists will love examining trees and sharing their opinions about them.

Trees, Trees Everywhere

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

In this fun compare and contrast lesson plan, preschool students will dive into the world of cows! Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the  **Imagination Real or Make Believe** lesson plan.

Real or Not?

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!

Do You Know the Inner Planets?

Use hands-on activities involving play dough to show your students the layers of the Earth!


Play Dough Earth: Layers Of the Earth

All about the "B"utiful butterfly! Use this kinesthetic and creative lesson about the butterfly to focus on the letter B. Your students will also love learning about the butterfly life cycle.

Beautiful Butterflies: The Letter B

Use this lesson to teach your students about their sense of smell. Teach them that food would not taste as good without their sense of smell. Have them imagine their favorite food and think if they like the taste or the smell of that food.

What's that Smell?

In this caterpillar-focused lesson plan, students will practice identifying words that begin with the letter C, while learning about the metamorphosis of a butterfly. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for your ELs.

Linking Letter Sounds

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson. 

Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Scientists observe and classify the world around them! In this lesson, your students will practice their processing skills by observing a group of objects and grouping the objects based on their attributes.

Think Like a Scientist: Observe, Sort, and Classify

From seed to flower, students will learn all about the life cycle of a plant in this science lesson. Your class will discover what living things need to grow, and learn the various stages of a plant’s life span, with new vocabulary words.

Life Cycle of a Plant

Students will have a zoo learning about the foods zoo animals eat. Your students will decide what zoo animals are supposed to eat, what they're not supposed to eat, and learn why people and animals have different diets.

Please Don't Feed the Animals!

This hands-on lesson will get your students to investigate some mystery liquids, and they will have to use their observational skills to figure out what they are.

Liquid Detectives

Use this lesson to teach your students about the planets that are the farthest away from the sun! Teach them about the planets with rings and the materials inside the rings. 

Explore the Outer Planets

Teach your students about living and nonliving things with this interactive lesson that keeps your class engaged as they learn!

Identifying Living and Nonliving Things

Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "See Think Wonder" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.




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