Lesson plan with subsequent pages to use with the lesson. Images with landform word match up and additional work on earth modeling.

Make a 360 degrees periscope which uses mirrors to reflect light to see around corners.

Third graders will invent a gadget using one or more simple machines and write about it.

Here are several great lesson ideas for a weather unit. The lessons cover topics in math and science including making clouds, recreating the water cycle, and making a tornado. There is also a list of weather resources for more information.

This simple lesson involves making a model of a water molecule from gumdrops. A toy car is also used to explain how a model compares to the real thing.

In this lesson plan, students will apply mathematical, science, and engineering concepts to experiment with balancing levers. They will learn to classify types of levers to design and build a simplified mobile. Students will explore...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Looks at how environmental factors put limits on population sizes.

How scientists can learn information about the past from fossils. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]

Explore the process of doing scientific investigations.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifies and describes the two internal layers of Earth.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The technological design process is a step-by-step approach to finding a solution to a problem. Often, the main challenge in technological design is finding a...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift was refined.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.

Covers divergent plate boundaries on land.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]

Understand primary and secondary ecological succession, and their importance to ecosystems.

Learn how energy is passed along through living things in a food chain and web.

Understand the living and nonliving aspects of aquatic ecosystems.

Learn how the biomes of the world are determined by their climate and ecosystem.

See how human activity has affected habitat loss and destruction.

Understand the structure and function of the human lymphatic system.

Learn about preserving water resources.

Understand the human body's inflammatory responses.

Discover the characteristics of infancy and childhood in humans.

Learn about the fertilization of an egg and sperm.