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Online Worksheet - Cyclone Tracy's Effect on Darwin
In this cyclone Tracy online activity, students research the answers to 15 short answer questions using the given links. They determine the timing, and results of the cyclone on Darwin, Australia.
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Pet Overpopulation: Spay or Neuter Song
Students explore the importance of spaying animals through a song. In this spaying and neutering lesson, students calculate how animal numbers get larger quickly. Students recognize the importance of taking good care of home...
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Garden Starters
Students grow their own gardens. In this planting lesson, students use egg cartons to start their own gardens by planting and caring for seeds. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson to complement the theme.
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Ice Eggs
Students melt colored ice cubes which are created from a funnel, balloons, water, and food coloring. In this ice lesson plan, students put food coloring into water in a balloon, freeze it, and see how the food coloring ended up making...
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Electrical Circuits
Students explore parallel and series circuits. In this electrical circuit lesson, students investigate the differences between series and parallel circuits. Students observe the benefits and drawbacks of series and parallel...
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Weather Word Problems
In this weather worksheet, students complete 5 short answer questions comparing and contrasting daylight hours at different locations around the world.
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The Seasonal Cycle
Students complete a unit of lessons on the four seasons. They examine the effect each season has on plants, animals, and people during the actual season, read magazine and newspaper articles, and create a calendar and poster about each...
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Develop a Bird Feeder Watch List
Learners explore biology by identifying animals on their school ground. In this bird species activity, students create and utilize a simple bird feeder to attract birds near their classroom at which point they observe the color, size and...
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Travel to the Polar Lands
Second graders receive an "Expedition Ticket" to travel through the Polar Regions- the Arctic and the Antarctic. They research polar bears and make drawings that are to scale.
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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth
In this animal safety instructional activity, students brain-storm ways to be kind and safe with animals throughout the year. Students create a Kind Calendar for Animals in art class and distribute copies to other classes in the...
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Tsunamis
Students investigate the natural disasters known as tsunamis by researching the Internet. In this nature instructional activity, students define the word tsunami and discuss how they are created. Students complete an online...
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POP! Goes the Popcorn!
Pupils 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.
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There Are So Many Stars
Students explore the night sky. In this astronomy lesson, students discover a song about the stars in the sky and participate in a flannel board activity pertaining to the song.
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How Much Longer is the Day?
In this daylight hours worksheet, students use pictures given to write a number sentence and calculate the answers. This worksheet has 3 word problems.
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Electric Shock: Caution!
In this electricity activity, students read about how electricity flows and the force that causes the flow. Students read about electric shock and then complete 3 short answer questions.
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Holiday Hints
For this holiday hint worksheet, students learn how to have a pet safe environmentally "green" Christmas by reading 6 tips. The underlined words in the tips are found in a word search puzzle and there is also a coded message.
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Forestry, What's in It for You And Me?
Students examine the usefulness of every part of trees in a variety of activities in this unit.
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All I Want for Christmas is a Nice, Clean Earth
Pupils observe properties of items, determine time it takes for organic/inorganic items to decompose, identify differences/similarities between decomposition, identify practical uses in litter/garbage control, & establish reasons for...
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Very Hungry Caterpillar
Students explore the life cycle of a butterfly. In this life cycle instructional activity, students read the book the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Students use this book throughout the year to create a year round bulletin board showing the...
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When I Was Young In Appalachia
Students comapre and contrast the lifestyles of the people of the Applachian region with their own community through in-class discussions, creative projects, hands-on activities, food preservation, homemade remedies, home construction,...
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A Magnetic Personality
Fifth graders experiment to discover how many paper clips different types of magnets can pick up. They make predictions, carry out the experiment and collate the data.
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Celebration Symbols and Their Meaning
Students develop a symbol that represents something they wish to celebrate or include in a celebration of their choosing.
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Hunt the Fact Monster
In this Fact Monster search engine worksheet, students access the Internet to find the answers to five questions with multiple choice answers.