Lesson Plans and Worksheets
Browse by Subject
Related Topics
Featured Testimonial
Lesson Planet has been a lifesaver in assisting me with planning great lessons for my students. It has helped me to see what other teachers are using to engage their students in learning.
- Stephanie G., Teacher
- 11-27-11
Vivarium Teacher Resources
Find teacher approved Vivarium educational resource ideas and activities
Title
Resource Type
Views
Grade
Rating
Students design a class newspaper all about their study of crickets, including illustrations and various sections of the newspaper, like sports, jokes, articles, food, and reviews. Students create a plan to design a cricket from food items and write a recipe to go with it. Students share their stories, riddles, jokes, and reviews throughout the process.
Students see that spiders catch and eat their prey and are also caught and eaten by their enemies. They sort the pictures into animals that spiders eat, those they do not eat, and those that are spiders.
Second graders explore a spider's particular body parts. Live spiders are observed over the course of a few days to see how sound, light, and movement affect the spiders.
Second graders explore the characteristics of spiders. In this spider lesson, 2nd graders compare and contrast spiders and insects. Students identify and label spider parts. Students also record their observations of live spiders.
Students participate in a variety of cross-curriculur activities in order to explore spiders.
Students explore the different habitats of spiders.
Fourth graders observe objects in science and create a contour picture of the the object. In this arts and science observation lesson, 4th graders develop a clay sculpture of their object. Students generate a list of texture words to describe their object.
Students study different kinds of animals and what group they belong to. In this animal classification instructional activity students view different animals and sort them by what group they belong to, for example a snake is in the reptile group.
Learners identify and describe local poisonous plant/animals. They compare characteristics of three local ecosystems and describe common plants from different ecosystems; comparing shapes, colors, textures, and measuring sizes.
Students see that spiders have a life cycle, and reproduce by laying many eggs. We can count by ones, twos, fives, or as many as we want. They make two lists of animals on a chart.