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Where Oh Where
Students read a current event article orally and make connections regarding the geographic themes of the newspaper location. In this current event article lesson, students use a map to locate where the event from their...
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Gliding Glaciers
Students are introduced to the concept of glaciers. They discover how glaciers move and what types of landforms are formed by glaciers.
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Indiana
In this Indiana instructional activity, students read a two page text about the history of the state of Indiana. Students answer 10 true and false questions.
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The Country of Nigeria - Map Work
In this map learning exercise, learners label 14 items on a map of Nigeria. They follow directions to label and color Nigeria, and the water-bodies and countries that surround it.
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Pond Ecosystem Field Trip
Young scholars investigate the environment by participating in a class trip. In this pond ecosystem lesson, students define a list of vocabulary terms associated with ponds such as invertebrate and metamorphosis. Young scholars attend a...
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Glacial Climbing
Young scholars plot the current distribution of glaciers around the Earth and see if there any major trends where glaciers appear to be either growing or shrinking at abnormally high rates.
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Glacier Climbing
Learners discover where glaciers exist and how they move. In this glacier lesson, students work in groups to create a glacier in a replica valley and observe its properties.
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Heritage: Famous People of the West
Fourth graders investigate the impact of Brigham Young and Jim Bridger on westward expansion. They conduct research, develop a class information chart, and create a cartoon strip depicting what happened when Jim Bridger and Brigham Young...
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Archaeology- State Map
Students study state maps. In this map skills instructional activity, students identify the states' location and how to use a legend. Students complete photocopies of the state map.
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Sunken Millions
This PowerPoint provides a game show format with multiple choice questions about fresh and salt water. Topics include sources of water, water geography, uses of water, and the water cycle.
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Travlin' Through the Basin: Guided Imagery
Students listen to a story. For this imagery lesson, students listen to nature sounds of the Everglades, water and forest. Students listen to a reading of the Tangipahoa River guided imagery passage. Students share their feelings...
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Native Lands: Indian in Georgia
Students bring in vegetables that the Native Americans ate. In this vegetable lesson, students create a graph that shows how many students brought in each vegetable. They measure their vegetable to find the length, circumference, and...
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Investigating Fresh Water Ecosystems
Sixth graders examine the fresh water ecosystems. For this environmental lesson, 6th graders work in groups to collect information about a fresh water ecosystem and report their findings to the class in the form of a brochure.
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What's Holding Up the Water?
Young scholars read about the history and locate dams in Arizona. In this Arizona dams lesson plan, students write a summary about what they read focusing on word choice, ideas, conventions, and geography content.
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Invertebrate Jobs
In this invertebrate instructional activity, students draw an example of invertebrates that have the following ecosystem jobs: scraper, predator, shredder, or collector. Then students draw lines to connect the invertebrates with the...
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Water Quality
In this water quality worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by understanding pH, temperature, oxygen, and turbidity as it relates to ideal water conditions.
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Asia Crossword
In this geography activity, students complete a crossword puzzle about Asia. The twenty-one questions are about capitals, countries, and terrain.
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Interconnected Food Web
In this fish worksheet, students make connections between fish and it food and enemies to create a food web. Students label the connections.
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Bodies of Water
In this writing descriptive sentences worksheet, students describe 13 different bodies of water using the words small, large, fresh, salt, deep, shallow, protected, still, and flowing. Students should include 2 adjectives per sentence.
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Salinity in Mill Creek
Fifth graders use water samples collected at three different locations of Utah's Mill Creek to test salinity of water, hypothesize about salinity levels at each location, record results, and discuss their findings with classmates. ...
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Caddis Identification
In this caddis fly worksheet, students examine the caddis fly at its larva, pupa, and adult stages. Students draw each stage. Students identify what materials were used to build their cases from drawings. This worksheet has 3 drawings, 3...
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Insect Comparison
In this insect worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by researching the 10 different insect orders. Students draw a picture and then write examples and physical descriptions of each of the orders.
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Shi Huangdi
In this Chinese History worksheet, students answer 12 multiple choice questions regarding Chinese Histroy, Shi Huangdi, and the Terra Cotta Warriors. The worksheet is interactive and the students can follow a link to find the answers.
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There Is / Are / Some / Any
In this there is, are, some, and any activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences and label pictures with there is, some, are, and any. Students complete 2 activities.