To honor El Dia de los Muertos, scholars work together to create Day of the Dead displays—paper sugar skulls and banners—that bring a festive and memorable flare to the classroom.  

Your class will learn about natural resources and man-made items and differentiate between them. They chart resources from seven pictures and explain how each natural resource is used.

Students investigate the life in the mud found around ponds. They create Ooze City using pond mud. Students investigate the various layers that form and what type of organisms are in the mud.

Seventh graders explore how exercise affects carbon dioxide levels in exhaled air.

Students read excerpts from Gulliver's Travels and note the nautical terminology. While listening to ocean-themed music, students complete worksheets about sea and boat terms and create their own semaphore system. They challenge fellow...

Young scholars investigate air pressure with four hands-on activities. They observe experiments by viewing Take a Look 2 #21.

Fourth graders gain an understanding of how insects/organisms are impacted by factors that are essential to an organism's survival in a particular habitat. They see how lacking just one element of a habitat can affect an organisms chance...

In this grammar worksheet, students focus on the various parts of speech.  Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions in this online interactive worksheet.

Students explore and create sound wave vibrations using musical instruments and common objects. They compare/contrast and describe actions that cause sound wave vibrations that can be seen, heard, and felt.

Students discover that seaweed/algae is a small part of the resources the oceans provide. By investigating common household products, students discover that human senses are not enough to detect the presence of seaweed/algae in food.

Pupils review a list of vocabulary words needed in emergency procedures at home and work. They discuss safety procedures for each work emergency; choking, Heart Attack, and Chemical burn.

Students explore the effect of chemical erosion on statues and monuments. They use chalk to see what happens when limestone is placed in liquids with different pH values. They also discover several things that engineers are doing to...

Students discover the faults throughout the Earth. They describe the different types of faults and how they are related to earthquakes. They build models of the faults.

Young scholars read about a cholera outbreak in the 1840's. They read maps, predict how cholera moved throughout the country and participate in a lab activity that demonstrates how disease is spread. They compare cholera through time.

Students identify loaded words and examples of bias in print media. They describe how media can be used to manipulate public opinion. Students identify examples of interest groups that use media to sway public opinion in order to impact...

Fifth graders, in groups, distinguish between mixtures, solutions and suspensions.

Why is breathing so difficult for asthma sufferers? To find out, learners build their own lung models in the investigation (from a British website, hence the term ventilation system instead of respiratory system). Using...

Students experiment floating a variety of objects in various liquids. They discover how density affects the ability of an object to float and apply the concept of density to solve problems.

Students are introduced to the basic states of matter: solids, liquids and gases. Through experimentation, students determine that liquids and solids have definite volume, that gases do not have definite volume, and that solids have a...

Fourth graders explore the interdependence of frogs and trees. They discuss the various things they need everyday to survive. Students select an animal from their local bioregion and research things that animal is dependent upon for...

Do your young grammarians need extra practice using the correct form of verbs in the future perfect tense with negatives? A 10 sentence activity will reveal whether or not they have mastered this verb sequence. No answer sheet is included.

In this Coca Cola worksheet, learners read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...

In this volume worksheet, students participate in an experiment to test the volume in a few food containers. Students complete an experiment and then answer six comprehension questions regarding the results of their experiment.

Students design a balanced school menu or a healthy snack vending machine. Students create a colorful wall display. Students demonstrate about food groups on a spreadsheet. Students answer a survey on what foods to eat and why.