Students explore the environment by reading a story in class. In this water formation lesson plan, students define environmental terms such as rivers, streams, gulf, oceans and lakes. Students read the story A River Ran Wild and discuss...

Young scholars explore mass and volume. In this mass and volume instructional activity, students pretend to be on a hike and have lost their way. Young scholars must cross a river get back on track. Students must use mass, volume,...

Students investigate the environment by designing a group project.  In this ecology lesson, students identify the man made threats to the Amazon while reading environmentally conscience vocabulary terms.  Students collaborate...

Students scrutinize the Zuni Pueblo Revolt in this seven lessons unit on early Spanish explorers in the American southwest. The discovery of the Spanish missions, the search for the seven cities of gold, and particular geological...

Students identify locations of rainforests, compare/contrast layers of the rainforest, construct and interpret maps and graphs, recognize relationships between man and the environment, and write about an imaginary walk in the rainforest.

Young scholars research an animal of the rainforest. They create a computerized claymation to present their research.

Fourth graders draw maps of Peru and examine how Peru is a geographically diverse country.