• A Science lesson plan on day and night
  

• This is a lesson on rainbows, their history, and their colors
  
• This esson plan is on melting snow and thermometers
  
• This lesson is on the seasons and measuring temperature
  
• "Bottles Of Fun" is an idea for looking at waves and water movement
  
• This lesson employs bubbles to observe changing wind speeds and directions
  
• Here we graph the weather with help from the weather channel website
  
• Here students also track the weather online
  
• This is a kindergarten stormy vs. fluffy cloud activity
  
• This lesson asks the question: "Weather - where does it come from?"
  

• A collection of activites to introduce Mammals to young students
  
• After this dinosaur lesson, students will be able to compare and contrast ten different types
  
  
• Below are the parts to a small unit on Birds:
  
  • This part involves Bird Houses and Making a Book
    
  • The goal of this portion is to teach about the Bird's Body
    
  • This one is a Bird Poem Sequencing Activity
    
  • Using the book, "The Magpies' Nest," this lesson teaches how Birds Build Nests and allows students to Build Nests
    
  
  
• This one is on Dinosaurs and involves creating "Dinosaur Prints"
  
• This Dinosaur lesson plan focuses on the Pteranodon
  
• This lesson is on Researching and Charting Farm Animal Information
  
• Here's a game idea called Animal Tic-Tac-Toe
  
• This idea is called "Guess The Animal" using Animal Sounds
  
• This idea is to be used as an Introduction to Animals and involves Role Playing
  
• Here's a large, 5 day thematic unit on Penguins
  
• This is a lesson on baby farm animals
  
• Kid Pix software is used here to create an animal habitat and climate slide show
  
  
• This is an excellent multidisciplinary Flatfish Unit:
  • Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
    
  • This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
    
  • "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
  
  
• Children identify animals using camouflage in these activities
  
• Here students label the parts of an owl's body with descriptor words
  
• Students identify and count shapes and colors used while constructing "Geometry Animals" here
  
• In this unit, students capture SMARTboard images of nesting hawks observed live via the internet for a photo presentation about their life cycle
  

• Something different - a fun lesson idea on Feet
  
• "The Color of We" is a multi-disciplinary look at skin color
  
  
• Here's a very brief unit on Teeth and Dental Care:
  
  • This one uses the book "Fang The Dentist" and is about Going to the Dentist
    
  • Tooth Brushing and Keeping Decay Away are discussed here
    
  • The book "What Do Fairies Do With All Those Teeth" is used in this lesson
    
  
  
• This in-depth lesson plan is on Discovering The World Around Us with our Senses
  
• This interesting lesson mixes two topics: The Five Senses and Poetry
  
• Here's a good Attention Getting idea called "Give Me Five!" (all Five Senses that is)
  
• Here's a lesson on the 5 Senses that uses "Brave Little Monster" and was written by the book's author
  
• This lesson explores just the sense of touch
  
• This is another great lesson on the sense of touch
  
• Sense of touch is used here while making textured collages
  
• A tagboard circus clown is used in this body parts mini-lesson
  
• This lesson answers the question: How do we hear sound?
  
• This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
  

• Here's one on Spider Webs
  
• Here's a lesson for Valentine's Day called Love Bugs, used to discuss Bugs
  
• Here's a fun idea for studying Insects that involves a new type of Painting
  
• This lesson looks at Arachnids and their Webs and compares them to Insects
  
• Here's a lesson on the Parts of a Spider, their Appearance, and Habitat
  
  
• Below is a complete multidisciplinary mhematic unit on Butterflies:
  • What Caterpillars Eat
  • From Caterpillar to Butterfly
  • Life Cycles of Butterflies
  • Life Cycle Sequencing
  • Eat Like a Butterfly
  • How to Attract Butterflies
  • Symmetry Lesson
  • Butterfly Poetry
  • What Have We Learned?
  
  
• This lesson on Insects involves Observing a Cricket
  
• Here are some ideas for teaching about Spiders using "Miss Spider's Tea Party"
  
• "The Amazing Caterpillar" lesson utilizes live butterfly kits, internet sites, books, puppets, etc. to investigate the life cycle of a butterfly
  
• Here is another fantastic multidisciplinary spider unit titled "Spooky Spiders and Wacky Webs"
  
• This lesson is "All About Ants"
  
  
• Here are two unrelated multi-disciplinary lessons on "The Hungry Caterpillar"
  • This is a good Spring activity idea using "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
    
  • This is a multi-disciplinary lesson on "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and sequencing of events
    
  
  
• This is a multidisciplinary lesson on the life cycle of a butterfly
  
• Here students observe the life cycle of mealworms while taking care of their needs
  
• In this "All About Butterflies" lesson, students make colorful models and create a life cycle chart using Kidspiration software
  
• "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
  
• In this new Chipo's Gift activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
  
• This is a lesson on zoo animals and the hot or cold climate from which they came
  
• Here is a "Baggie Butterfly" art project to complement an insect unit
  

• A Science lesson on Leaves and Observation (uses some Math)
  
• This lesson on Seeds uses the book "Now I Know All About Seeds"
  
• This fun lesson on Colors, Shapes, and Flowers is called "Planting A Rainbow"
  
• This lesson deals with Plants That Never Bloom
  
• This brief idea on Seeds uses a jelly bean to show how Seeds Grow
  
• Called "My Life As A Tree," this lesson is on Tree Rings, Bark, Cambium, and Heartwood
  
• This lesson looks at Plants compared to Trees, Edible Parts, and involves a Celery Analysis
  
• This lesson on Plant Parts involves their Function and a Mobile
  
• This lesson is on Seeds and Fruits with and without Seeds
  
• Here are some ideas for teaching a good multidisciplinary apple unit
  
  
• This is a week-long multidisciplinary unit on spring and plants
  
• Here is a St. Patrick's Day idea for growing shamrocks
  
• This is a cute song or fingerplay about apples
  
• Here is an idea for making a four seasons tree booklet
  
• In this (St. Patrick's Day?) idea, a carnation magically turns green
  
• This is a one-week thematic unit on fruit
  
• In this greeting card idea, students collect and identify leaves, write a poem and discuss photosynthesis
  
• In this well-developed lesson, students create a Photo Story three presentation on the life cycle of a plant
  
• Young students create and label their own paper plant here
  

• A Language Arts Lesson Plan on Nature
  
  
• Below is a collection of ideas for an Ocean Unit:
  
  • Here's a general overview of the Ocean Unit
    
  • This part is on the Ocean Plants
    
  • Ocean Animals are the subject of this section
    
  • This portion teaches about the Ocean Food Chain
    
  • Teach about the Oceans of the World with this part
    
  • This lesson discusses the difficulties in Crossing the Ocean
    
  • This section focuses on Literature on the Ocean
    
  • Here's a discussion of the Ships on the Ocean
    
  
  
• This lesson is on Germs and Cleanliness
  
• Here's a lesson for looking at Where and How Plants and Animals Live
  

• Two recipes that are useful in Science for exploring substances like Flubber
  
• A Science lesson on Acids and Bases for the earlier grades
  
• This lesson idea is on the three States of Water
  
• This lesson is on Concrete (for an Architecture theme) and involves making a Footprint Stepping Stone
  
• This is an idea for teaching melting that uses the book "Snowballs"
  
• An idea for Color Mixing that uses Gelatin
  
• This is an idea for Mixing Colors using an Eyedropper
  
• This idea is on exploring Chemical Reactions with Milk
  
• Students Mix Food Colors to Dye Eggs in this lesson appropriate for Easter
  
• In this clever Easter science experiment, students witness absorption, diffusion, and primary color combinations while dyeing coffee filter Easter eggs
  
  
• This awesome demonstration is simply magic - seriously, go try it now!
  
• Here we make an Oobleck (with the help of Dr. Seuss)
  
• An "Edible Slime" alginate polymer is mixed up here from brown seaweed
  
• This winter demonstration answers the question: "When does snow melt?"
  
• "The Great Melt Race" is a well-developed 5E Science Teaching Model that asks "Where will my ice cube melt the quickest?"
  

• This lesson plan is on the layers of the rainforest
  
• "The Great Kapok Tree" is used to teach about rainforest trees
  
• Here is a rainforest song
  
• This rainforest bird lesson is an introduction to research and CD art
  
• If you need a math component for a rainforest unit, try this fruit loop graphing idea
  
  
• See our Science - Environment - Rainforest lessons for more on this topic

• Here is a lesson on the causes of pollution
  
• Here's an idea for an Earth Day Song
  
• Aquatic wildlife and pollution are the topics taught in this lesson plan
  
• This miscible/immiscible lesson demonstrates how oil and detergents pollute water
  
• In this lesson, students learn the difference between the terms reuse and recycle
  
• Students identify causes of pollution and ways they can prevent it in this bilingual photo story
  
• "Taking Care of the Earth" is also a four seasons lesson plan
  
  
• See our Earth Day and Social Studies - Environment lessons for more on this topic

• This lesson is on Volcanic Eruptions and involves creating a Volcano in class
  
  
• Listed below are the lessons for a big multidisciplinary unit on Rocks:
  
  • This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
    
  • This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
    
  • Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
    
  • This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
    
  • This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
    
  • Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
    
  • This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
    
  • Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
    
  • Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
    
  • This portion is on Rock Streaking
    
  • Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
    
  • To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
    
  • This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
    
  
  
• This brief idea on Rocks uses Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and includes a Critique of the book
  
• This lesson involves an Experiment with Volcano Explosions
  

• A lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
  
• A Science lesson on items that Sink or Float
  
  
• Below is a collection of lesson plans to form a Magnet unit:
  
  • A good introductory lesson, this one is on What Attracts and Why
    
  • This one deals with Magnetic Attraction through Objects
    
  • Here's a lesson for measuring Magnetic Strength
    
  • This lesson is on the North and South Poles of a Magnet
    
  • A lesson plan on Problem Solving with Magnets
    
  
  
• This is a Special Education lesson idea on "What Sinks and Floats"
  
• Here's an idea for students to create books about "Things That Fly"
  
• Here are three lesson ideas on "Sound and Musical Instruments"
• This physics idea has students predicting and comparing results of bouncing various sports balls
  
• Read this lesson and then "Go Fly a Kite"
  
• Here students "Go Fly A Kite," and learn about drag, thrust, lift, and gravity
  
• Here students discover that magnets can work through nonmetal materials
  
• This simple activity shows how the sun and heat affect things
  

• Here's an idea for hosting your own science circus
  
• This idea develops grouping/classification skills
  
• This "Fall Scavenger Hunt" collects observations of autumn
  
• In this unique idea, students describe their classmates in positive math or scientific terms
  
• Here children sort natural and man-made objects
  

• An Art lesson plan with Science using see-through fish
  
• An Art lesson for making Playdough Christmas Ornaments
  
• Here's an interesting idea for creating Fish Paintings (and studying Fish)
  
• This lesson on Rainbows involves students creating a Crayon Resist
  
• In this idea students make Handprint Spiders
  
• Here's an artistic idea for learning about Spiders
  
• This lesson idea is on Color and Paint Palettes
  
• Students make Construction Paper Trees and learn about Trees in the process
  
• This Art lesson involves Painting (or Drawing) Sunsets and Landscapes and some Geology study too
  
• This Art/Science lesson asks students "What's Inside The Egg?"
  
  
• Create a simple shoebox lid shadow box with potpourri and craft stick flowers
  

• Drawing 4 Children (free download) is used in this idea to create a dinosaur habitat
  

• This one is on senses in science and language arts
  
• Here's a seasons book idea
  
• "W is for Worm" is the title of this Cinquain Poem lesson
  
• The question "What if Dinosaurs Returned?" is answered in this classroom book lesson
  
• This multidisciplinary lesson centers on cookies and the letter "C"
  
• In "Poppin' Corn," students use descriptive language, inventive spelling and their five senses
  
• Here insect literature is read
  
• After listening to a story about Tyrannosaurus rex, students write sentences about this dinosaur
  
• This is a program for writing and illustrating a topic-centered hardbound class book
  

• Here students put dots on butterfly wings and then find the sums of their creation
  
• Geo-spiders are made while discussing conflicts in this Anansi related lesson
  
• In this well-developed Pre-K/Special Ed fish pond lesson four and one-half fish are counted
  
• "Round the Clock" is a multidisciplinary unit on time and its relationship to clocks
  
• This is a graphing heart candy lesson with a science twist and a good "relevancy" section
  

• This Vivaldi's "Spring" lesson correlates music with weather and history
  
• Children "skate" to the meter of waltz music in this cold weather idea
  

• This lesson is on Healthy Food Choices for young students
  
• In this lesson, students demonstrate their knowledge of the three states of water in a shuttle run
  
• In "All the Fish in the Sea," students cross the ocean while avoiding obstacles
  
• Students prepare and eat a healthy vegetable snack in this step-by-step idea
  

• Here's a four part thematic unit on Aviation:
  
  • This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
    
  • The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
    
  • This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
    
  • Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
    
  
  
• This multidisciplinary Johnny Appleseed lesson includes geography, transportation, U.S. history, sense of taste, graphing, and story illustration
  

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