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Mealworms
Crawl into the world of the darkling beetle with this scientific investigation. Watch as the insects move through the larval, pupal, and adult stages of life, recording observations along the way. Discuss the necessities of life as young...
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Trap Your Own Insects: What’s in Your Backyard?
Young entomologists construct three types of insect traps—pitfall, pollinator, and panel—before setting their traps out and observing what they caught. They then observe what types of insects the different traps attract.
PBS
The Chrysalis or Pupa
What is one of the most exciting parts of a butterfly's life cycle? When it emerges from its pupa and dries its wings! This is a great activity little ones will love. They discuss what happens during the pupal stage of the butterfly life...
BioEd Online
Serving Sizes
When it comes to eating a balanced diet, portion control is paramount, but what is the difference between the serving size on the nutrition facts label and a portion as determined by the USDA? In a comprehensive look at portion control,...
EngageNY
Asking and Answering Questions: Studying the Life Cycle of a Frog
A lesson challenges learners to ask and answer questions about the life cycle of a frog. With a class read-aloud, partner discussion, and notebook reflections, scholars complete a three-page worksheet to prove their understanding of the...
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Science in Your Shopping Cart
Students research the use of science in food production in the United States. In this science and food lesson, students visit a specific website to learn about the science used in various food products for United States consumption.
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Using Music and Poetry to Teach Science
Students learn and review science concepts through creative activities and songs.
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Ecosystem Organization - Lesson Plan
Student explore ecosystems. In this ecosystem organization lesson, pupils consider how scientists study living organisms. Students participate in a teacher guided activity that requires them to visualize an organism and imagine its place...
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Science Experiment With Eggs
Students participate in four scientific experiments with eggs. They discuss egg vocabulary, and examine the eggs' attributes through the experiments. They focus on making educated guesses.
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Pollination
Third graders discuss pollination and how bees pollinate flowers. In this pollination lesson plan, 3rd graders draw the pollination process on a piece of paper.
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Lesson Exchange: Kite Construction (Elementary, Science)
Students learn the technology of kite making and how to make a kite and fly a kite.
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Energetic Atoms - Active & Spaced Out
Students discover the power of the sun through an outdoor experiment. In this solar power lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation on atoms before they complete an atom worksheet. Students utilize a solar bag to demonstrate the...
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Parts of a Plant Lesson
Students, after reading about the parts of a plant, identify each part and describe its function.
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Interactive Notes - "Sound"
Third graders view a PowerPoint and participate in an experiment about sound. In this sound lesson, 3rd graders press on a slinky with different amounts of force to understand energy waves moving and echoing back. Students discuss the...
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Food Chains
Students create their own food chains on Kidspiration starting from the energy of the sun and what it creates. In this food chains lesson plan, students learn about how insects eat plants and so on.
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The Nervous System Lesson
Students identify features of the nervous system. They explore the needs of the human body by explaining the importance of good health in relationship to the body and explain the functions and care of the human body and its organs.
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Pull(ey)ing The Science Out (Or Pulleys)
Students investigate how the number of pulleys affect the difficulty or ease of pulling an object up. They watch a demonstration that shows the work done by one pulley and two pulleys. After watching the demonstration, the students break...
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Habitat Lesson
Students students explore animal habitats, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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The Human Body Systems - Lesson Plan
Young scholars identify the following organ systems in the human body and state their functions: muscular, skeletal, circulatory, respiratory, digestive.
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The Brain and the Sense Organs - Lesson Plan
Students identify the five sense organs and state the uses of the five senses.
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Science: Where the Worms Live
Students build mine-earthworm habitats to discover their niche in them. They make predictions about what the niche looks like in a week and draw a picture of it. Students notice the tunnels in the soil and how the sand and dirt are now...
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Botanical Gardens Lesson Plan
Students define botanical gardens and explain why they are important. They describe a plant using scientific ways.
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Eagle Lesson One
Third graders investigate bald eagles. They examine a map of the United States, locate states where bald eagles live, read and discuss books, and write a paragraph on how eagles are tracked.
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Lesson 22: The Great Chicago Fire Survivors
Students, in groups, create a historical fiction story of a Great Chicago Fire survivor by writing a survival narrative.
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