Fourth graders complete a two-month long unit on the physical characteristics of the oceans and animal environments. They create a "Creatures of the Sea" alphabet book in collaboration with a kindergarten class, conduct Internet...

Students investigate the life cycles of fish as they observe a trout's life in class.  In this fish life activity, students create a proper habitat in a fish tank for the trout eggs to spawn and thrive for several weeks....

Students create a multimedia animal research presentation based on the include criteria for both information and sideshow format. They follow directions on slide set-up from creating a slide to transitions and musical insertion.

Students investigate ecological systems and the cause and effect relationship between humans and the environment by using the prey items of Ospreys.

Students explore the use of different textures in watercolor paintings in this late-elementary lesson. Emphasis is placed upon the art element of texture using the science of chemical reaction. The lesson includes one possible extension.