Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Kindergarten Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers K
Students participate in a scavenger hunt. In this icebreaker lesson plan, students are given Scavenger Hunt Sheets and search their new classroom for the objects.
Worksheet
Curated OER

PE Sports and Activities Workbook

For Students 2nd - 6th
This learning exercise provides 20 statements that require class members to locate someone to whom each applies; for example, "likes the same sports team." This is a good icebreaker activity that facilitates cooperation, but it has...
Printables
Education.com

Back to School!

For Teachers K - 5th
It's the first day of school and the class pet has gone missing! Children try to find the runaway rabbit in a fun hidden picture learning exercise.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Science: Suddenly Snow

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars engage in snow-related activities during the first winter snowfall. After explaining the elements needed for it to snow, they preserve snowflakes on frozen slides and observe them under a microscope. Then, they write...
Unit Plan
Curated OER

The First Class

For Teachers Higher Ed
Teachers explore different ways to become acquainted with their students. They consider ways to learn their Students names including labels, name tags, playing the games "Concentration" and "Add an Adjective." They explore ways for...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Machines at home: friction

For Students 4th - 6th
For this friction worksheet, students answer a question about what icy roads and cars slipping have to do with friction. Students complete 1 question.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Frozen Solids

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate various properties of ice including melting points and the effect of pressure on ice. They demonstrate how increased pressure lowers the melting point of ice and perform a simple experiment proving that water is more...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Help Save the Polar Bear

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students use ice cubes to demonstrate how the polar ice caps are melting and how it effects the polar bears. For this polar bear lesson plan, the teacher explains how polar bears live on the north pole and how they are having trouble due...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Scoop on Summer

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write a noun that names a place they spent their summer vacation, a verb telling one activity they did, and use those words to write a complete sentence. Finally, they use an ice cream cone graphic organizer as a guide to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Do Salt Trucks Do?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students predict what will happen to ice when salt is put on it. They make observations and discuss what actually happened to the ice. They relate their experiment to the salt trucks they see on the street.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pioneer Farm Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Pupils explore pioneer farm life and the types of cooking and ingredients available. They recreate a pioneer version of a sno-cone and discuss why crushed ice was used more often than snow in this recipe.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Daily Survival Requirements of Water

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students will use inquiry science to complete an investigation. They create hypotheses predicting the changes water undergoes in becoming ice and determine how much ice needs to be melted to create one 8 oz. glass of water.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I'm Melting

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils estimate the time it takes for an ice cube to melt completely.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Melting and Freezing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders observe experiments with ice and water. They complete a Venn diagram listing the properties of each. They experiment with ice and water, comparing their weights. They note the weights are equal.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Three Cold Realms

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify organisms within the realms of pelagic, benthic and sea ice. They explain how these three interact with each other.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning Lesson: That Sinking Feeling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discover the origin of the Great Ocean Conveyor. They participate in a demonstration showing how salinity and temperature affect water density. They also examine the new sea ice that forms every winter.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Same But Different

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe a frozen container filled with ice and discuss what happens when the ice sits out in the room. They practice measuring the mass and volume of the ice, watch as the frozen container is placed in a warm water bath to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cookies and Cream

For Teachers K
Students listen to stories and identify the cause and effect situations in each. For this cause and effect lesson, students read the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and then make cookies and ice cream. Students identify the changes...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Frozen Water Before? I'm Sure You Have; But I Bed You've Never Frozen Salt Water! Water!!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine what happens to salt water when it freezes. In groups, they measure density and salt concentrations in different samples of water and record its freezing time. They discuss the relationship between water density...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Title Balancing With Tidy Numbers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars use math manipulatives (ice block sticks) to show the addition of two 2-digit numbers. They discuss short-cuts that might be used to make the problem easier. they apply the same principle for adding larger numbers, as well.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Freezing and Melting

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this freezing/melting worksheet, students observe ice cubes and answer a set of 8 related questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Insulation and Buoyancy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students predict whether their hands be warmer in ice water with or without a blubber mitten. They construct a blubber mitten using plastic, Crisco and compare their results with a control group. They observe how this affects buoyancy too.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animals: Mammoths

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine websites about mammoths that lived until the end of the Ice Age. They explore the woolly, Columbian, and the Jefferson's mammoth. There are printable sheets, illustrations, maps, and an animated movie showing mammoths...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding Satisfactory Solutions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the creative aspects of problem-solving and practice creative problem-solving strategies in the context of a story problem. They decide where to locate ice cream stands in a town so that no one has to travel too far to...

Other popular searches