This outdoor lesson helps students better understand ecological and geographical classifications by teaching it simultaneously in science and geography class. Presenting the two classifications together will help reinforce the idea of...

Young scholars will investigate two different habitats; one habitat is maintained in its original natural state while the other habitat is a manicured golf course. Students will identify and compare the diversity of plants and insects in...

Students do research to learn about West Nile Virus, the birds that carry it, how it spreads, where it can be found in North America, and how it affects humans. The activity is set up as a WebQuest where students navigate to assigned...

An extended field investigation intended as launch into several concepts in environmental science including biodiversity, human impacts on natural systems, and energy transfer in ecosystems.

This excellent unit of study for Grade Two has students examining what makes up a grasslands environment, growing their own grass, playing a predator-prey game, and looking at how grasslands are impacted by human activities.

This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...

For this activity, young scholars visit a small section of the schoolyard and record observations in a scientific journal. They will observe different things as the school year progresses, including ecological relationships, human impact...

Students learn about Ken and Joab, two boys who are starting first grade. Ken attends school in Japan, while Joab lives in Kenya. Students compare and contrast the circumstances surrounding the two boys' experiences at school.

in this lesson plan students conduct an experiment to find out how acid rain can harm plants.

This is a five-week project where students explore and assess their personal lifestyle choices and how their habits impact on the environment. They try making choices that have less of a detrimental effect on the environment, and...

This is a three-week project where learners explore and assess their personal lifestyle choices and how their habits impact on the environment. They try making choices that have less of a detrimental effect on the environment, and...

This resource provides materials for teachers on a huge array of topics. Search site by topic, grade level, and desired output (such as lesson plan, case study, assessment or tutorial). Site is focused on earth science, geography, and...

Students pick a resource and track their use of it over the course of one week. Students record their data in a spreadsheet, write a summary of it, and draw conclusions from their usage patterns. A detailed student handout is provided.

Compare and contrast the weightlifting abilities of ants and humans and graph the results, and investigate the roles ants and fungi play in the forest ecology.