Groundhog Lesson Plans

Students explore spreadsheet data and interpretation.  For this cross curriculum ecology and technology lesson, students create spreadsheets depicting the location and number of groundhog dens in a local park.  Students analyze data about where the groundhog population is most prevalent, and prepare questions for a debate concerning preserving or euthanizing the local groundhogs.

Students answer questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy after reading the book, How Groundhog's Garden Grew, by Lynne Cherry.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students respond to 6 questions, one per taxonomy level, to demonstrate understanding of the story.

First graders explore the book How Groundhog's Garden Grew. In this reading lesson, 1st graders investigate generosity and sharing. Students create an invitation to Groundhog's dinner.

Use a movie as an aide to learn how to speak English. The class watches the movie, "Groundhog Day" which is repetitive in nature and humorous as they learn about the folk belief of the groundhog. They compare city dwelling and country living then use the movie as a basis for learning new vocabulary.

Young scholars discover the ideas of enlightenment by reading historical poetry.  For this philosophical lesson, students read poems by Sir Walter Scott and Sergeant Joyce Kilmer while discussing the themes of the writing with classmates.  Young scholars view the Bill Murray film Groundhog Day and complete several activities based on the characters and existential viewpoints from the film.

Second graders explore the tradition of Groundhog's Day. In this Project Groundhog lesson, 2nd graders decide whether the Groundhog's Day prediction is accurate. Students collect and chart weather data in their community to while they compare it other students' data around the United States.

Second graders determine the groundhog prediction of either six more weeks of winter or an early spring and see if the prediction was accurate by recording daily weather data for six weeks.

Pupils use a variety of sizes of class poster groundhogs to order the objects by size. The groundhogs are replaced by a bag of objects and the sizing exercise continues.

Students use the SMART Board to learn about Groundhog day and create a tally chart of predictions for whether he will see his shadow or not. In this Groundhog day lesson plan, students respond to questions throughout the lesson.

Pupils play the Groundhog Day tag game to follow instructions and play according to the rules of the game. They attempt to run to the "holes" to be safe or if caught they move to a pre-determined area off the playing field.