Working Together for the Manatee

Step into the role of a zoo director with several activities about animal training and running a zoo. Kids calculate the amount of food each animal needs, design a habitat for penguins, decide how to breed bottlenose dolphins, and train...

Celebrate the geography of the Americas and develop map skills through a series of activities focused on the Western Hemisphere. Learners study everything from earthquakes and volcanoes of the Americas and the relationship between...

Sixth graders examine the steps and elements of the Egyptian funerary process. In this Egyptian lesson plan, 6th graders work in groups to look at images and research web site to find information about Egyptian funerals including items...

Students research environmental destruction. For this cause and effect lesson, students students gain an understanding of everyday things we do to harm the environment. Students work in groups to create a brochure that tells the negative...

Students, in groups, use microscopes to identify characteristics of rock specimens. Once they have selected five rocks to examine, they take snapshots of the samples and chart their findings including characteristics and classifications.

Seventh graders identify and examine the different characteristics of mammals. They discover what they eat and how they give birth to their young. They view video clips to help them identify characteristics.

Bring Earth science and language arts together in this lesson, which prompts learners to identify animals on the verge of extinction. They discuss how the impact of humans has caused the decline of animal populations due to...

Young scholars explore the concept that infrastructure supports a well-functioning community. They create graphs as collaborative groups showing acts of service observed within their school community. Students use an online graphing...

Students measure irregularly shaped bones, once using a variety of measurement methods and tools, and then again using standard conventions and metric tape measures. They explore firsthand that standardizing data collection makes...

Young scholars conduct Internet research and then practice the process the Ancient Egyptians use to bury their dead by creating their own replica of a sarcophagus. This helps students examine the importance of the Egyptians' techniques...