Spring Time Lesson Plans & Worksheets Reviewed by Teachers

University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Madeline, a Story of the Early Spring Time by Jacob Abbott

For Students 3rd - 5th

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Madeline, A Story of the Early Spring-time by Jacob Abbott [1870], a Christian novel for children.

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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Spring Time Stories for Language Lessons by L. N. Fredericks

For Students Pre-K - 1st

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Spring-Time Stories for Language Lessons by L. N. Fredericks (1883), short stories with blanks and pictures to help students learn the language.

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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 3 10 14: Daylight Saving Time Begins This Weekend

For Students 6th - 8th

Article reports on the change to daylight savings time.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Step 3 (Damped Spring Mass System)

For Students 9th - 10th

This program simulates a particle connected to an anchor by a damped spring. Can you make a realistic looking spring? Try changing the value of k and the amount of damping. Press "Restart" each time you change a value. How does the...

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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Motion of a Mass on a Spring

For Students 9th - 10th

This tutorial investigates the motion of a mass on a spring and how a variety of quantities change over the course of time. Such quantities will include forces, position, velocity and energy - both kinetic and potential energy. Take the...

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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Timed Vertical Oscillation Problem

For Students 9th - 10th

Find the period and frequency of an object oscillating on a spring. You will do this by timing enough oscillations to minimize your error to a low value. You will also use the frequency to find the spring constant of the spring based on...

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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Predicting the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in the Gulf of Maine

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This lesson helps young scholars understand the variables that influence the abundance of phytoplankton. Students will make predictions about the timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Maine. Furthermore, data from buoy...

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Read Works

Read Works: Time to Fly!

For Teachers 2nd

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about monarch butterflies and their migration patterns. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Curated OER

Spring Wagon

For Students 9th - 10th

Travel back in time to see what the pioneers used for transportation and to do their daily work. Great pictures of wagons of the west including the chuck wagon, spring wagon, farm wagon, and freight wagon.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Classics in Western Philosophy

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Utilize these excellent resources when introducing the concepts of Western Philosophy and/or analyzing changing philosophies over time.

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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th

In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...

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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mouse Trap Racing in the Computer Age!

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Base Set and a HiTechnic acceleration sensor. They use...

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th

"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...

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Indiana University

Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected

For Students 9th - 10th

The 1855 edition of Washington Irving's essay collection Wolfert's Roost is provided in facsimile and can also be read in PDF and plain text form.

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Other

Cyber Space Avalanche Center: Snow and Stability

For Students 9th - 10th

Learn how the weather effects avalanches. Learn why the spring and and fall are hazardous times. How does the wind effect avalanches?

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Hofstra University

Hofstra Univ: Why Was Bubonic Plague So Devastating to European Society? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th

The Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" came out of the eastern Mediterranean along shipping routes, reaching Italy in the spring of 1348. By the time the epidemic was abating in 1351, between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had died. The...

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Other

Robert Frost: America's Poet

For Students 9th - 10th

This site provides many full text poems by Robert Frost. There are also multiple links for more information on Frost and his works.

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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Robert Frost

For Students 9th - 10th

The site provides background and texts of numerous poems. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to specific poetry books to find complete text of individual poems.

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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Northeast China, 1971

For Students 9th - 10th

"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...

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Curated OER

Vinland, From Accounts Contained in Old Northern Maps, Eleventh Century

For Students 9th - 10th

A map of Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod showing the area of early Norse exploration in America. "In 986 A.D. a Norseman named Herjulfson, who was voyaging from Iceland to Greenland, was driven by a gale far out of his reckoning to the W....

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