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Science Lesson Plans - Grades 2-3
- Aquatic Wildlife and Pollution
- "All Eyes on the Pond"
- The Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables
- Butterfly Unit - References
- Butterfly Unit - What Have We Learned?
- Butterfly Unit - Butterfly Poetry
- Butterfly Unit - Symmetry Lesson
- Butterfly Unit - How to Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - Eat Like a Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycle Sequencing
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit -What Caterpillars Eat
- Aquatic Wildlife and Pollution
- Spiders and Scientific Theory
- What's In My Balloon?
- Science - Chameleons
- Here children order the steps in the butterfly's "life cycle" and learn the meaning of that word
- This ESL recycling lesson integrates English vocabulary, science and environmental consciousness
- This lesson on sequencing and the food chain asks "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?"
- Here's a lesson plan on Lightning Safety
- A lesson plan that looks at how Sound Travels Through Objects
- Here's a lesson on trees that uses leaf rubbings and "The Giving Tree"
- A brief idea for studying soil with discussion questions for class
- This section focuses on Literature on the Ocean
- This lesson employs bubbles to observe changing wind speeds and directions
- In this lesson, students sort things found on the beach and classify their origins as animal, plant, or human
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This idea involves creating "Penguin light bulbs"
- Students identify causes of pollution and ways they can prevent it in this bilingual photo story
- This lesson on angles integrates science, social studies, and art
- This is an idea for Teaching Seasons and Precipitation
- This Vivaldi's "Spring" lesson correlates music with weather and history
- This simple idea uses Computers to learn about the Planets
- An Art lesson for making Playdough Christmas Ornaments
- In this PE/Science lesson, students demonstrate their knowledge of the three states of water in a shuttle run
- This portion involves Making a Magnet
- Read this lesson and then "Go Fly a Kite"
- Lesson 2 involves exploring Simple Machines in groups
- This brief idea on seeds uses a jelly bean to show how seeds grow
- Here's a lesson on Food Chemistry; Acids and Bases in particular
- Learn about pumpkins here with "The Pumpkin Book"
- This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
- Here's an artistic idea for learning about Spiders
- This dinosaur lesson plan focuses on the Pteranodon
- This part of the Magnetism Unit is on What Attracts
- Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- This idea is on exploring Chemical Reactions with Milk
- In this greeting card idea, students also collect and identify leaves, write a poem and discuss photosynthesis
- This poster idea teaches the differences between monocot and dicot plants
- In this clever Easter science experiment, students witness absorption, diffusion, and primary color combinations while creating coffee filter Easter egg
- This second part of lesson 4 continues the Matching Activity above
- Here's a multidisciplinary plan on the water cycle
- Does a square bubble wand make a square bubble?" Click here to find out
- "The Amazing Caterpillar" lesson utilizes live butterfly kits, internet sites, books, puppets, etc. to investigate the life cycle of a butterfly
- This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
- Love Your Lungs
- In this lesson, students use Kidspiration and learn the difference between the terms reuse and recycle
- Students write and illustrate sentences about "Earth and the Eight Milky Way Planets" in this astronomy lesson
- Here students "Go Fly A Kite," and learn about drag, thrust, lift, and gravity
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- Here's an idea for an Earth Day Song
- A Science Lesson on Magnets
- Here the rock cycle is demonstrated with chewing gum and Pop Rocks
- This awesome demonstration is simply magic - seriously, go try it now!
- Here classes compose their own concert songs about frogs or other themes
- Students Mix Food Colors to Dye Eggs in this lesson appropriate for Easter
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- Here is a Producers and Consumers Tag game
- Students create a photo story of the eight phases of the lunar cycle in this lesson
- This lesson on insects involves observing a cricket
- This great five senses lesson includes a "listening walk"
- In this idea students use Smell to make Hypotheses about Objects
- A lesson on Landforms and the Weathering of them
- Teaching Temperature is the title of this lesson involving Fahrenheit Vs Celsius
- Children identify animals using camouflage in these activities
- The question "What if Dinosaurs Returned?" is answered in this classroom book lesson
- Here is a lesson on Ladybugs and Aphids
- The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
- In this unit, students capture SMARTboard images of nesting hawks observed live via the internet for a photo presentation about their life cycle
- This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
- This is a Special Education lesson idea on What Sinks and Floats
- A Science lesson on Acids and Bases for the earlier grades
- The entire class models molecular behavior in this clever gas-liquid-solid lesson
- The student categorizes nonrenewable vs. renewable resources in this lesson and learns the effects of overusing our resources
- In this excellent taste bud lesson, students predict, sample, describe, identify and chart bitter, sweet, sour, and salty Jelly Bellies.
- Students prepare and eat a healthy vegetable snack in this step-by-step idea
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- Students observe the life cycle of a flowering plant grown from seed over a period of time in this "5E" lesson plan
- Here's a lesson on the 5 Senses that uses "Brave Little Monster" and was written by the book's author
- In this new Chipo's Gift "glyph" activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
- This is a solar system lesson with an art component
- In this webquest project, students discover how the water cycle relates to changes in matter
- In this lesson, students use yarn to illustrate the life cycle of a flowering plant
- A brief idea for exploring items that Sink or Float
- The last section Makes and Uses a Compass
- Here's a lesson for measuring Magnetic Strength
- Can you guess who is in the Kapok Tree? This descriptive paragraph lesson answers this question
- Here is a science and math lesson on volume (uses pumpkins)
- This Math and Science lesson plan involves creating Favorite Flower Graphs
- This well-developed lesson on the components of a community includes suggested connections to other disciplines
- Levers are the subject of this part of the unit
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- Many creative kinesthetic devices are used here to help students learn the planets and their characteristics
- Here students label the parts of an owl's body with descriptor words
- In "All the Fish in the Sea," students cross the ocean while avoiding obstacles
- This is a changing seasons webquest
- This lesson models how to glean information from text to write an informative paper
- This Expressionism lesson is part of a Thanksgiving project-based multidisciplinary learning plan
- This lesson is called "What is Work?"
- This lesson on Plant Parts involves their Function and a Mobile
- In this geology lesson, students dig for chocolate chip fossils inside cookie rocks
- This one is on Frogs and uses the Senses to Observe their Characteristics
- This lesson on Oil Spills focuses on Writing a Letter to a Senator
- These center activities serve as a delightful introduction to the common garden snail
- This end-of-year activity produces next year's bulletin board
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- Here's a general overview of the Ocean Unit
- In this creative lesson, students make an animal and choose an environment
- This lesson on Rainbows involves students creating a Crayon Resist
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- An "Edible Slime" alginate polymer is mixed up here from brown seaweed
- This lesson plan is on melting snow and thermometers
- This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
- In this lesson, students craft and classify snowflakes
- This idea is on Oceans and the Math topic of Classification of Seashells
- This lesson looks at Plants compared to Trees, Edible Parts, and involves a Celery Analysis
- This lesson idea is on color and paint palettes
- This is an idea for growing shamrocks
- In this idea, students send postcards from Pluto
- The phase changes of matter are studied here by making ice cream in a recloseable plastic bag
- First we look back to before there were any "Machines," and look at Simple Machines like Corkscrews and Screwdrivers
- This miscible/immiscible lesson demonstrates how oil and detergents pollute water
- This lesson on Thunderstorms involves a Thunderstorm Simulation
- A Science lesson on Leaves and Observation (uses some Math)
- This lesson plan uses the story Beluga Passage and focuses on Beluga Whales
- Here students write a story about using their newly acquired animal adaptation
- This is an excellent five senses learning station lab
- Two recipes that are useful in Science for exploring substances like Flubber
- This one is a Bird Poem Sequencing Activity
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- Groups view and create videos on habitats and their organisms in this lesson
- "Dinosaur Prints" are created in this lesson
- This is an in-depth lesson on the Five Senses
- This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
- A great Human Body activity
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- This is a user submitted revision of "The Breathing Machine"
- In this activity, students make a rubber ball from latex
- In "Moon Munch," students bite out the phases of the moon that they researched
- "One Million Bones" is a collaborative art project to call attention to the atrocities of genocide and mass violence
- This one deals with Magnetic Attraction through Objects
- Force, Motion, and Velocity are the subject of this lesson using Balloon Rockets
- The goal of this portion is to teach about the Bird's Body
- Here is a taste test for your taste buds
- This lesson plan is an Exploration of Volcanoes
- Here is a short food chain lesson idea
- This interesting lesson mixes two topics: The Five Senses and Poetry
- Here "The Magic School Bus' takes us through a unit on sound
- This one looks at the Instruments used to Forecast the Weather
- Jamie Rettke
- This lesson is on germs and cleanliness
- Here is a "Baggie Butterfly" art project to complement an insect unit
- This cooperative learning mini-lesson teaches the differences between butterflies and moths
- Here's an idea for teaching about Insects and Spiders
- The story elements of ecological cartoons are discussed in these lessons that promote keeping grease and grit out of our sewers
- Exploring the Rain Forest Through Print, Graphics, and Sound
- Here's one on Spider Webs
- This lesson introduces the human skeleton
- This Rain Forest lesson involves People, Animals, and Life in the Rain Forest
- This lesson is "All About Ants"
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- Here students create a water cycle diorama, a rainfall journal, and a photo story of the water cycle and weather systems
- Learn the four ways that seeds travel in this lesson
- Students learn the parts of a seed and the effects of lack of sunlight on the growth process in this lesson
- Plants are the subject of this lesson, and the book "Jack's Garden" is used
- This lesson is on Volcanic Eruptions and involves creating a Volcano in class
- 2 well-developed lessons on Animals in Asia and Africa
- This simple idea transforms plants (collected leaves) into animals (art project)
- After readingThe Borrowed Hanukkah Latkesby Linda Glaser, why not make some?
- Zig Zag Zinnias are paper sculptures of flowers in a pot for Mother's Day or for teaching about different types of lines
- This is a good lesson plan on Changes of State of Matter
- After comparing the "Magic School Bus in the Rainforest" book to its video, students research and present rainforest animal facts to the class here
- Here's a lesson for Valentine's Day called Love Bugs, used to discuss Bugs
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- We continue with Wedges in this lesson
- With this idea you would bring in a Weather Forecaster from your local news
- Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
- This lesson teaches a writing process for informative non-fiction research-based papers
- Children (Special Ed) learn rain concepts here by making a rain cloud out of construction paper and yarn
- This part involves Bird Houses and Making a Book
- This is a lesson about air
- In this fun idea students create travel brochures for the planets
- Here we graph the weather with help from the weather channel website
- In this osmosis idea, a carnation magically turns green
- This lesson involves an experiment with volcano explosions
- Students investigate and create flowers using inventive materials for an "April Showers - Bring Me Flowers" mural in this lesson
- This is an idea for Mixing Colors using an Eyedropper
- This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- Here's a lesson for looking at where and how plants and animals live
- In this idea students go on a Nature Walk to look at Trees and Leaves
- This is a very interesting geology lesson where students eat "Metamorphic Rock Pancakes"
- Here's a lesson plan on clouds that involves making one in a jar
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- In this lesson, students work in groups to study different animal habitats and their own survival
- This is a Song that can be used to help teach about
- Here's a large, 5 day thematic unit on Penguins
- A Science lesson on Seeds
- Using the book, "The Magpies' Nest," this lesson teaches how Birds Build Nests and allows students to Build Nests
- Here insect literature is read
- This portion teaches about the Ocean Food Chain
- "Life in a Pond" is an outstanding web-enhanced lesson on pond ecosystems
- Here's a discussion of the Ships on the Ocean
- This renewable energy unit uses a Promethean Board, a streaming video website, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Something different - a fun lesson idea on feet
- This is a lesson plan on tornadoes and their location
- Students learn the names of the stages of the U.S. Space Program in this musical lesson
- Here is an integrated thematic Solar System Research Lesson Plan
- This is an ecology lesson on the endangered Manatee
- This rainforest bird lesson is an introduction to research and CD art
- In this changes in matter lesson, students go outdoors to make slushies
- In this well-developed lesson, students create a Photo Story 3 presentation on the life cycle of a plant
- This lesson looks at Arachnids and their Webs and compares them to Insects
- In this lesson, the poem "Tommy" inspires students in their house plant maintainance and observation tasks
- "Taking Care of the Earth" is also a four seasons lesson plan
- A lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
- Here is a fun physics idea for predicting and comparing the bounce of various sports balls
- Ocean Animals are the subject of this section
- This lesson discusses the difficulties in Crossing the Ocean
- Here are some ideas for teaching about spiders using "Miss Spider's Tea Party"
- This in depth lesson plan is on Discovering The World Around Us with our Senses
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- In this idea students view a video of Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Here's a game idea called Animal Tic-Tac-Toe
- This brief idea on Rocks uses Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and includes a Critique of the book
- This lesson is on researching and charting farm animal information
- This idea involves using dried Leaves to make glitter art
- Did Leonardo Da Vinci's Curiosity and Detailed Drawings Influence Communities Around the World?
- Here students observe the life cycle of mealworms while taking care of their needs
- Here students identify different states of matter in everyday classroom objects
- A lesson on the Causes of Pollution
- Called "My Life As A Tree," this lesson is on Tree Rings, Bark, Cambium, and Heartwood
- With the aid of Kidspiration, children sort natural and man-made objects here
- This great lesson plan on the heart is called "How Does Your Heart Rate?"
- Here's an idea for using poetry (reading and writing) to help think about weather
- A Science lesson on friction
- This is a multi-disciplinary lesson on "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and sequencing of events
- This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
- This part is on the Ocean Plants
- Title: Evidence of Interactions
- A 5 Step lesson plan on Erosion
- In "Poppin' Corn," students use descriptive language, inventive spelling and their five senses
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- Here's an idea for hosting your own science circus
- Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
- In this lesson students create 3-D models of ocean animals, and you create a 3-D ocean bulletin board
- Students create a Kid Pix Slide Show on animals in this lesson
- Here is a lesson on the human genome project
- This is a well-developed "Cam Jansen and the Missing Dinosaur Bones" lesson
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- This one is for studying the Uses of Water
- This lesson uses an astronomy website and Kidspiration 2 software to make a planet graphic organizer
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- In this lesson students create Art from the Natural Dyes in Vegetables
- A lesson plan on Problem Solving with Magnets
- Kid Pix software is used here to create an animal habitat and climate slide show
- Students love this Earth Day Jeopardy game activity (Special Ed - 3-12)
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- A good introductory lesson, this one is on What Attracts and Why
- Another good lesson on Magnets - Poles, Strength, and Attracted Objects
- Teach about the Oceans of the World with this part
- In this "All About Butterflies" Kidspiration lesson, students make colorful models and create a life cycle chart
- This Art lesson involves Painting (or Drawing) Sunsets and Landscapes and some Geology study too
- This science and art lesson uses the book "The Very Busy Spider"
- Students input their butterfly life cycle research summary here with the help of a graphic organizer
- This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
- This lesson is on the North and South Poles of a Magnet
- This idea looks at Forecasts and how we Prepare for Weather
- This lesson on Lungs is called the "Breathing Machine"
- The complete metamorphosis of butterflies is the subject of this lesson
- "W is for Worm" is the title of this cinquain poem lesson
- This lesson plan is on the Interacting Systems of the Human Body
- Weather Thematic Unit
- Moon Phases
- Cloud Unit, Types of Clouds
- Topic: Sound... 3 lessons
- Solids, Liquids, and Gases
