Students list three things about caves that interest them and list reasons why writers choose caves as settings for stories.

Students use their five senses to describe what's in a mystery bag. In this senses lesson, students use a graphic organizer to collect words for a sensory poem.

Students develop an understanding of our planet as a system by designing a very-long-duration space mission in which the life-support system is patterned after that of earth.

Students examine limestone cave geology and hydology. They study cave vocabulary.

Students develop a definition of extinction.  In this extinction lesson plan, students listen to What Happened to Dinosaurs? Students research and debate theories of what happened to dinosaurs.  Students present their...

Students examine how water changes state, from a liquid to a solid.  In this water lesson students study the water cycle and how temperature and pressure effect it. 

Students investigate the sounds of the heart, construct a stethoscope, and explore the workings of valves.