Fourth graders, practicing scientific method, identify specific attributes to various oyster shells.

Third graders write descriptions of food items in order to create a restaurant menu. They use adjectives to describe mouth-watering and vivid food and compare it to a boring adjective-lacking menu. They design and share their menus with...

Students explore the geographic features, structures, and means of transportation and livelihood from Alabama's past. They analyze a photograph to gather historical information and make inferences from historical images.

Students utilize owl pellets to explain part of the natural food chain, and the skeletal system. They construct a rodent skeleton from the skeletal parts foundin the pellet.

Students study Bearden's style of collage and create their own collage that reflects their neighborhood. They are read "The Block" and poems about neighborhoods and write one about theirs.

Students show competency in Art objectives by designing and creating props (glasses-looks, ears-headband, and [feel] texture board) for each of the given senses.

Students sample several sweet, sour, bitter and salty foods. They determine what part of their tongue tasted each flavor.

Learners study science concepts as they are presented in poetic form. They write and present their own science poems to parents during Open House.

Learners practice writing sentences in which the subject and verbs are either both singular or plural. They complete worksheets including one highlighting "The 5-Step Subject- Verb Edit Process.

Students review the terms plot, setting, and characters and examine how all of these elements are needed to make a story. They are given parts of stories and they try to identify all of those parts of the story.

Students review the five senses with the teacher. They are given a set of pictures and while the teacher reads a story, they are to hold up the correct picture of which sense the character is using.

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.

Students complete a unit of lessons on insects. They participate in a bug hunt, construct paper flowers, discuss pollination, create bug paperweights and insect mobiles, play bug charades, and participate in a bug scavenger hunt.

Students complete a variety of activities based on examining corn and popcorn as one of the major crops of Kansas. They journal the results of the multidisciplinary activities in this unit.

Students conduct online research to investigate gardening and landscaping tips. They determine how they can help beautify their homes and neighborhoods.

Students participate in a series of simulated activities designed to demonstrate the interconnectedness between the environment and the organisms that live there. They explore how polluting one element of an environment affects the...