Let's Learn About Weather!

Exactly what do groundhogs know about weather? Not as much as your science students will after completing these lessons and activities that cover everything from the earth's rotation and the creation of shadows, to cloud...

Teaching young mathematicians about collecting and analyzing data allows for a variety of fun and engaging activities. Here, children observe the weather every day for a month, recording their observations in the form of a bar graph....

Winter weather offers a great opportunity to teach young scientists about the states of matter. This activity-based lesson includes a range of learning experiences, from experimenting with the rate at which ice melts to singing a song...

Learn about firefighters with this fun, interactive lesson from scholastic. As a warm-up, young learners brainstorm what they know about firefighters. Then they read the book Fire! Fire! by Gail Gibbons and complete the Scholastic Online...

Studnets listen to fiction and non fiction books about the weather.  In this weather instructional activity, students identify different types of weather. Students wrie about weather in the style of the book cloudy with a Chance of...

Your class will investigate going to the dentist with this lesson plan. After discussing reasons to go to the dentist and what a dentist does for their job, pupils write about a personal experience they had going to the dentist. Two...

Learners explore teeth. They count how many teeth they have, practice proper care of teeth and gums and explore the different parts of a tooth. They graph how many teeth they have lost and write a story about losing a tooth.

Students identify what a dentist does in his/her profession and list reasons why a person may go to the dentist. They write about a personal experience with a dentist.

Take your class on a nature walk around the school and have children assume the role of "Plant Hunter" as they go. The goal is to explore the different parts of a plant. They return to the classroom to discuss the parts that they saw and...

Young scholars participate in an author study about Patricia Polacco focusing on her use of family and friendship as themes in her books. They write a letter to the author and compare her life to that of Beatrix Potter. They examine how...