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African Savannah
Students are read two African fairy tales. Using the text, they create a map and key for each region mentioned. They compare and contrast the various communities and discover how geographic features affect how people live.
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Three Methods of Heat Transfer
Students participate in a variety of experiments designed to illustrate types of heat transfer including conduction, convection and radiation. They complete worksheets as an assessment of the experiments.
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Forces of Nature Vocabulary Quiz
For this science worksheet, students draw lines to match 13 words pertaining to forces of nature to their definitions in another column. Example: tornado, tide, erosion, pressure.
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Simple Machines Vocabulary Quiz Worksheet
In this simple machines vocabulary quiz worksheet, students match the 19 terms in the word bank to the appropriate definitions.
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Sharing Love
Young scholars explore the expansion of love. They read a story about showing love and sing a song. Students draw a picture describing love. In a group activity, young scholars participate in a "Greetings Dance." Students may bring...
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Create a Commercial
Learners apply their knowledge of the persuasive appeals by creating a commercial which uses one or more of the three appeals (logos, pathos, and ethos) in order to persuade. They also differentiate among the three appeals as used in...
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A Balloon Dance
Dance offers several components and the two that are involved in this activity are creative expression and artistic perception. In this dance activity children are given movements with which to build and formulate and help them make wise...
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Characteristics of Living Things
Students examine the characteristics of living things. They list the differences between living and non-living things, explore areas around the school, and create a Venn diagram for items found in the school areas.
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Spin Stabilization
Pupils investigate methods used by aeronautical engineers to keep rockets on target. After exploring the center of gravity and the center of pressure, students build water rockets. Pupils use various methods to design fins on the...
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Alliteration
Students write and illustrate a sentence which names a letter of the alphabet. The sentence should have subject, verb, describing words, and incorporate alliterative techniques.
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Extreme Weather!
Learners create a web page explaining a specfic type of extreme weather and identify recent examples of the weather occurance. They form small groups to research the weather type and build an HTML word document to share with classmates...
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Farm Vocabulary Cross Out Worksheet
In this farm vocabulary worksheet, students read ten clues pertaining to the farm. Students analyze the word answer and cross out all the letters that do not belong. Students write the correct word on the line.
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Flying the Friendly Skies
Students investigate aerodynamics by comparing and contrasting the flight of two gliders. They make prediction and observation charts and test a variety of hypotheses using paper gliders.
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Peter and the Wolf: Instrument Listening Game
Listening to this piece of music will foster the students ability to recognize individual instruments and the sounds they create. The art of music inspires the students to become sensitive listeners able to make aesthetic judgements and...
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Peter And The Wolf: Instrument Listening Game
Students match the instruments to the characters they represent in Peter and the Wolf. They also identify the instruments by name from listening to their sound.
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The Couplet
Students create the sounds of a thunderstorm with a symphony of body percussion to compose a couplet about rain using Microsoft word to publish. They are introduced to rhyming dictionaries and thesauruses and use Internet sources for...
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Reading Comprehension: Oceans
In this ocean comprehension instructional activity, students read a short passage, then complete 4 short answer questions about oceans. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Naval Battles in the Age of Sail
Students compare and contrast British and American/Allied naval losses during the American Revolution. They recognize factors affecting the outcome of a naval battle and describe a naval battle from the age of sail.
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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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CYCLONES EXPLAINED
Learners examine how tropical cyclones form and behave. They answer a variety of questions after examining specific pictures and figures regarding cyclones.
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Regions of Utah - Mapping
Fourth graders draw a rudimentary map of the state of Utah, dividing it into the three regions: the Great Basin, the Colorado Plateau, and the Rocky Mountain Region.
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Weather Vocabulary
In this weather worksheet, 3rd graders study words pertaining to all aspects of weather. Students respond to 19 questions, matching the vocabulary words on the left with the correct definition on the right.
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#22 Frames of Reference: The Basics
Students explore the concept of frames of reference in physics.
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Secrets Beneath the Waters
Learners work in small groups and design a ship out of balsa wood. They hypothesize what happens when the ship is placed in water then make predictions as to which ship stays afloat the longest with the greatest amount of weight added.