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Preschool - 4th Grade Life Science Lesson Plans : Page 2

In this fun animal-themed lesson plan, students will get a chance to learn all about animals and their homes!

Is That My Home?

What's so great about a tree? With this lesson, your students will be able to find out by exploring the benefits of trees through a beautiful story, catchy song and fun drawing activity. 


Parts of a Tree

Through visual and auditory activities, students will get to learn about characteristics of living and nonliving things and be able to classify them on their own.

Is it Living?

Embark on a classroom safari! In this hands-on lesson, students will create a scrapbook using their own observations of animal behavior during a field trip to the zoo.

Let's Go to the Zoo

Get your students excited about art with this cute fingerprinting activity. It utilizes color to help kids learn about the different fingers on a hand.

Fingerprint Butterflies

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

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

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

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

Coral reef life comes alive in this fun label and match activity that challenges students’ deductive reasoning skills and allows for artistic expression.

Coral Reef Creatures

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?

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?

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!

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!

Show your students the parts that work together to make a person breath! Have them compare the lungs of a healthy person, the lungs of a smoker, the lungs of a city resident, and the lungs of a miner.

Breathe In, Breathe Out: The Respiratory System

Let's learn about the human body. Students will enjoy discovering different connective tissues in this comprehensive science lesson.

Learn About the Body: Connective Tissues

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.




Exploring Animal Adaptations!

In this lesson, students will explore the life cycle of a pumpkin plant. Then they will have the chance to grow their own!

How Pumpkins Grow

Get your young scientists out of the classroom and into nature with this interactive science lesson.

I Spy Nature All Around

This lesson will make your students aware of their sense of sight. They will learn to not just look but to actually see the things around them.

Can You See?

One of the basic concepts in science is recognizing that all things can be classified as living or nonliving. In this lesson, your students will explore the characteristics of living and nonliving things with engaging hands-on activities.

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