Friction is a force that can be felt, which means that learners with visual impairments can experiment to feel and understand the concept of friction. They slide a rock along a smooth table, and then they slide a rock across sandpaper,...

Students study Hooke's Law and stress-strain relationships.  In this spring lesson students create a strain graph in Microsoft Excel.

Students measure, record, and graph the force of moving a block of wood along sand paper. In this friction lesson plan, students read a spring scale, collect data, construct a graph, and propose a model to explain how fiction works.

Park/park, spring/spring. do your class members need extra practice with homonyms? The first exercise on this worksheeet asks learners to identify the homonym, while the second asks kids to identify at least two meanings of the...

Students examine the painting, Spring on the Missouri. They role-play and discuss floods and flood control from the views of an environmental lobbyist and a farmer.

Students discuss Native American culture and musical techniques after viewing a video of Charles Littleleaf, a member of the Warm Springs tribe and a creator of Native American wood flutes.

Fifth graders reflect upon different concepts of Language Arts while reading literature. In the novel Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt, the characters discover a spring of eternal youth. After reading the first several chapters of...

Students explore global health issues related to water and sanitation. In this Peace Corps lesson plan, students participate in an online game that requires them to examine how hygiene education, tapping springs, constructing wells, and...

In this activity learning exercise, students color, cut, fold and paste a picture of the Easter bunny to make a card. Teachers are given a brief history of the holiday and traditions associated with it.

In this seasons worksheet, students read a short article on the 4 seasons, put the 4 seasons in correct order 4 times and then draw a summer picture and a winter picture in the 2 boxes provided.

In this seasons worksheet, learners cut and paste 12 pictures into seasonal order. Students compare pictures from Massachusetts, Canada, and the Arctic Circle.

Young scholars study kites. In this social studies instructional activity, students discover the history of kites and what kites are made of. Young scholars create their own kites to fly.

In this seasons worksheet, students compare 24 hour filmstrips for a single day in Canada, the U.S.A., and the Arctic Circle to determine the different seasons. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank.

In this lake worksheet, students access a website to read about how the conditions in a lake change during the seasons. Students write these changes in a graphic organizer.

Students study watersheds and examine how they are composed.  In this watershed system lesson students explain how water enters a watershed and the concept of stream order. 

Third graders draw a picture. For this seasons lesson, 3rd graders name the seasons of the year, discuss what happens during each season, read a poem for each season and draw a picture for each season.

In this scientific instruments worksheet, students are given photographs and titles of four instruments used in measurements. They answer five questions about the instruments used to measure specific items and the unit of measurement for...

Learn how the Civil War created fierce conflicts among American Indian nations who had been moved across the Mississippi River.

Students go on a nature walk and look for specific plants and animals. They check off items they find and determine if they were a plant or an animal.

This lesson could be used in teaching units on the Civil War or on the commemoration of wars.

In this frogs and toads learning exercise, students examine detailed color pictures of 7 varieties of amphibians. Students write the name of each frog or toad on the line. There is no word bank.

Young scholars calculate the length, width, height, perimeter, area, volume, surface area, angle measures or sums of angle measures of common geometric figures. They create an equation of a line of best fit from a set of ordered...

Students study the Wampanoag tribe to learn about the importance of the herring to their culture. In this Wampanoag lesson plan, students read information and complete multiple activities to learn about the role of the herring fish in...

Students explore pathways [Curved, Straight, and Zig-Zagged] with 20 Cones, 15 Plastic Eggs [with alphabet letters written on paper inside of egg], 15 jump ropes