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Prairie Scales and Prairie Smoothies
Sixth graders explore the animals that live on the prairie and identify differences between amphibians and reptiles and the adaptations each have made to live on the prairie.
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Hunt the Fact Monster
In this Fact Monster search engine learning exercise, students access the Internet to find the answers to five questions with multiple choice answers.
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Worms, Nature's Recyclers!
Students study what worms need to survive in different environments. They study how worm composting improves soil and reduce waste. They discuss composting techniques and present a puppet show about a worm's life.
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Barn Owl Pellet Lab
In this lab instructional activity, students dissect a barn owl pellet then identify the different small animals found in the owl pellet. Using class data they calculate percentage present as well as complete 8 post lab questions.
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Helping/Linking Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the correct verb or expression in parentheses that makes twenty sentences grammatically correct.
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Helping and Linking Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb or helping/linking verbs in twenty sentences that make each one grammatically correct.
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A Bug's Journey
Students research the art of John Baldessari. In this art history instructional activity, students examine Baldessari's drawing of a beetle and discuss the characteristics of these bugs. They write a story from a bug's perspective and...
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The Disappearing Honeybees: Tracking Honeybee Decline
Students practice graphing and other math skills to track number of honeybee colonies present in United States since 1978, discuss major crops that are dependent on insect pollinators, and examine reasons for decline of United States...
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Soil Composition
Students examine soil. In this soil composition activity students participate in soil sedimentation and filtration activities. The students discuss what non-living and living things are in soil and why it is so important.
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Plants Alive! How Plants Grow and Move
Students explore how plants move in response to the environment. In this plant lesson plan, students engage in three different experiments to investigate how plants grow and move. Resources available in English and French.
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Using Plant Pigments as Natural Dyes
Students create friendship bracelets and quilt squares. In this plant lesson plan student dye their own string and cotton material with plant pigments. Students use the naturally dyed materials to create the friendship bracelets and...
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Classification
Second graders sort insects into groups by determining similar characteristics. They role play as Entomologists to sort insects.
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Habitat Breakdown
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...
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Crazy Critters
Eighth graders visit a local park to collect insects. They record the habitats, identify the insect and write a report including the kingdom, phylum, class, and order.
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Going Buggy!
Students study bugs over a four week period. In this insect collection of activities, students observe insects covering basic science concepts and skills, such as classification, observation, and responses to habitat....
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Let's Talk About Spiders And Bugs!
Second graders study the differences between spiders and insects. They observe four different specimens in the classroom.
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Discovering the Oasis
Students focus on the types of vegetation and animal life living around local water sources. This instructional activity can be adapted to any local water source, whether it be a lake, a river, stream or ocean. It has a particular...
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The Queen's Empire
Eighth graders study insects and make observations about their habitat. in this insect research lesson plan students research the Internet to compile information on ants.
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Discovering the Oasis
Fourth graders investigate riverbanks and oxbox ecosystem at the Truckee River. They observe the plants, animals, insects and water organisms located there. Students document water samples, flow and then categorize them in class. This...
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Water Quality Monitoring
Students comprehend the four parameters of water quality. They perform tests for salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and clarity or turbidity. Students comprehend why scientists and environmental managers monitor water uality and aquatic...
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The Very Clumsy Click Beetle
Second graders determine what it means to be clumsy before listening to Eric Carle's, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle. They examine the part where the click beetle does flips before drawing three frames that show the beetle flipping. For...
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From Caterpiller to Butterfly: Cycles, Circles, and Patterns
Students examine art of butterflies and discuss what they know about the insect. They create their own butterfly puppets and write a story to represent its life cycle.
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Benthic Macroinvertebrates
Learners survey and describe a stream ecosystem. They sample the benthic macroinvertebrate populations of a given stream and determine community structure through the use of the Chandler Index and a species diversity index.
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Who Works in This Forest?
Pupils examine the variety of jobs that are related to working in the forest. Information on the different jobs is provided in this lesson plan for the teacher to share with the students. The pupils create a collage using magazines to...