The Way Animals Move: Fly, Crawl, or Swim?

Even as adults it can be hard to distinguish needs from wants. Using pictures of common, everyday items, children make a pocket chart separating the objects they need from those that they want. Discuss their choices, explaining that...

Teach your class about the necessities of life using the book Tillena Lou's Day in the Sun. After a teacher-read-aloud, students make puppets depicting different plants and animals from the story and illustrating the habitat in which...

Explore the wonderful world of earthworms as your class learns about the requirements of animal life. After building soda bottle terrariums, students observe worms over the course of a couple weeks, building an understanding that all...

There are not many plants and animals that can survive the cold, harsh conditions of the tundra. This collection of activities and reading passages helps young scientists understand the unique characteristics that allow these amazing...

Challenge your students with this wonderful lesson on the way animals move. Learners watch a movie about how animals move, listen to a book by Eric Carl, and use critical thinking skills to sort animals into groups. In addition, students...

Children identify different ways animals move and demonstrate the movements. They classify animals by their method of movement: swim, walk, or fly. They also work together to graph the ways that several animals move. Where this is a life...

How animals move from place to place is the main thrust of this science lesson. Students listen to the book, the Very Busy Spider together on the carpet. Then, the teacher constructs a Venn Diagram on the board. The circles are labeled,...

Before a trip to the zoo, you can have your students complete these motivating activities. Learners listen to the book Do Pigs Have Stripes by Melanie Walsh, and classify a group of animals based on attributes. Then students draw a...

Although this lesson is just a simple exploration of how farm animals move, it provides a variety of activities to motivate students. The lesson begins with an activity in which students use felt representations of farm animals to...

Students explore the world of insects and discover what it might be like to live like one. They create an insect with physical characteristics and demonstrate how it moves. Students also compare and contrast insects to spiders and how...