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Science Lesson Plans - Grades 4-5
- Physical & Chemical Reactions
- Habitat
- Water Cycle
- Fitness Gram Brochure Project
- Edible Atom
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 3, Evaporation
- Water Cycle Unit, Objectives and Scope
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 5, Precipitation
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 4, Cloud Formation
- Water Cycle Unit Lesson 2, Evaporation
- Water Cycle Unit Introduction, Water Cycle
- Water Cycle Unit, Supplementary Materials
- Water Cycle Unit, Culminating Activity
- Water Cycle Unit, Assessment
- The Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables
- Natural Disasters - Assesssment
- Natural Disasters - Learning Activities
- Natural Disasters - Year 5 and 6 unit
- Biology: Life Systems--cells
- Biology--Reproduction and Heredity
- Solar System Unit
- Lesson Plan 2: Developing Successful Teamwork Skills
- Hurricanes
- To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
- Ecosystem Diamante Poetry
- Here students decorate plastic cup flowers with different materials that they then test for opacity, aesthetic value and durability
- Easter Egg Geodes
- Here's a fun lesson on Wind Power that involves students creating a Puff Mobile
- Here's a section on the Real Greenhouse Effect
- Students generate an Inspiration concept map on how body systems are connected in this well-developed "Magic School Bus" lesson
- Here's a Simple Machines lesson on Pulleys
- Here is a simple life cycle sequencing activity (butterfly, frog, flower)
- The main materials for this invertebrate lesson are octopus and squid from a local fish market
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This idea involves creating "Penguin light bulbs"
- More Spider Graphing
- Students learn about the human body's ligaments with chicken feet in this lesson idea
- This Vivaldi's "Spring" lesson correlates music with weather and history
- This lesson teaches us to appreciate spiders and their special talents
- 9-3 includes Writing a Letter to the President
- In part 9-5, students will create a basic Web Page
- A Science lesson on Density
- This is a good idea called "Edible Atom" for studying the Periodic Table and Atoms
- Read this lesson and then "Go Fly a Kite"
- Lesson 2 involves exploring Simple Machines in groups
- Part six works on the difference between Orbit and Rotation and distance from the Sun
- Unit Materials and Resources
- Here's a lesson on Food Chemistry; Acids and Bases in particular
- This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
- Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
- Students use photo editing software here to create T-shirt designs about zoo animals
- 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
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
- Botany is used in this idea for teaching descriptive writing
- This Simple Machines lesson focuses on Wheels and Axles
- This lesson focuses on why we explore space
- Students play a "Simon Says Name That Bone" game in this lesson
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- Here's an idea for an Earth Day Song
- Here's another large, well-developed unit; this one is on Erosion
- Here the rock cycle is demonstrated with chewing gum and Pop Rocks
- This awesome demonstration is simply magic - seriously, go try it now!
- Reading and Writing Workshop With Student Round-Robin Participation
- Here classes compose their own concert songs about frogs or other themes
- This is a weather vocabulary lesson developed for ELD students
- This first one involves an introduction to the Solar System
- An activity using Digital Cameras to capture Shapes In Nature
- Students create a photo story of the eight phases of the lunar cycle in this lesson
- This lesson plan on population and natural selection uses a videodisk called "Super Bees"
- Favorite Parts in Charolotte's Web
- Here students role-play the process of photosynthesis performing as different parts of a plant cell
- This lesson asks the question "Will the boat sink or float?"
- 9-2 will create a Short Play
- Part 9-4 involves Assessing the Mars Colony Ideas
- This well-developed sculpture diorama lesson examines positive/negative space and the works of Dale Chihuly
- A lesson on Landforms and the Weathering of them
- Here students will create their own food web
- Teaching Temperature is the title of this lesson involving Fahrenheit Vs Celsius
- Lesson Plan 3 - Virtual Exploration of Lascaux Cave
- Interviewing Arachnologists
- The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
- This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
- This lesson is on the Characteristics of different Vertebrates and Invertebrates from around the World
- A Science lesson on Acids and Bases for the earlier grades
- Teach your students about immiscible solutions with this lesson
- The entire class models molecular behavior in this clever gas-liquid-solid lesson
- Here students keep a butterfly log
- In this lesson, students use their brain to make a brain out of Play-Doh
- This lesson is on the Interaction between Living and Nonliving things in an Ecosystem
- Here students make their own science videos ala Bill Nye
- This lesson plan teaches about the Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Cycle
- In this incredible edible lesson, students simulate the rock cycle and end up with igneous rock fudge - yum!
- This is a solar system lesson with an art component
- This lesson involves Tracking Time and the importance of Collecting Data
- In this webquest project, students discover how the water cycle relates to changes in matter
- Here is a lesson on clouds
- In this lesson, students use yarn to illustrate the life cycle of a flowering plant
- This is a Kidspiration lesson on levers
- Need a general science filler lesson for the substitute, try this one
- This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
- Word Play Fun... Not Your Ordinary Literary Masterpiece!
- This multidisciplinary kite building lesson is a great way to apply geometry
- Unit Comprehensive Assessment
- Predicting with Charlotte's Web
- This Math and Science lesson plan involves creating Favorite Flower Graphs
- Students examine simple machines and predict their use here
- 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
- Functions of the Skeletal System
- In "All the Fish in the Sea," students cross the ocean while avoiding obstacles
- This lesson models how to glean information from text to write an informative paper
- Lesson Plan 1 - Mapping Walls
- Timeline for Implementation of Lessons
- 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
- These center activities serve as a delightful introduction to the common garden snail
- This end-of-year activity produces next year's bulletin board
- In this lesson, student's discover a new bird and explain its adaptations
- This dramatic chemical reaction demonstration turns aluminum foil into copper with a memorable smell
- This idea involves creating a simulated landfill to prevent erosion
- An "Edible Slime" alginate polymer is mixed up here from brown seaweed
- This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
- Spider Haiku Poems
- Finding Homes of Spiders
- Narrative Rationale
- This lesson looks at Plants compared to Trees, Edible Parts, and involves a Celery Analysis
- This is an idea for growing shamrocks
- In this aerodynamics lesson, an airplane is made with just a straw, an index card, and some tape
- This lesson is on Earth's biomes and climates
- This plan is on tornadoes and makes use of the Internet
- This is a lesson about endangered animals and "Rare Beasts" by Charles Ogden
- Extinction is the topic of this lesson
- 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
- A Science lesson on Leaves and Observation (uses some Math)
- This lesson plan uses the story Beluga Passage and focuses on Beluga Whales
- This idea involves Scanning and/or Digital Cameras for observing Tree Bark
- Here students write a story about using their newly acquired animal adaptation
- This portion is on Differentiating Between Needs And Wants Through Research
- Where the Spiders Live
- In this lesson, students write a two paragraph opinion letter in response to "Yoshi's (ecological) Dilemma"
- A lesson on acids and bases
- This is an in-depth lesson on the Five Senses
- Part 9-1 involves Writing a Letter to NASA
- Fun with spider facts
- This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
- A great Human Body activity
- The second lesson is intended to Develop Teamwork Skills
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- This is a user submitted revision of "The Breathing Machine"
- In this activity, students make a rubber ball from latex
- This Science lesson teaches all about Crystals and can be used to make Christmas Ornaments
- Here is another lesson on volume
- "One Million Bones" is a collaborative art project to call attention to the atrocities of genocide and mass violence
- Force, Motion, and Velocity are the subject of this lesson using Balloon Rockets
- This lesson plan is an Exploration of Volcanoes
- Jamie Rettke
- Recycle? Precycle? Which Cycle Is Best for You?
- A Science lesson on soil types
- Students look at changing the Water Freezing Point by using Salt
- Lesson Plan 4 - Breaking Down Walls
- More Finding Where Spiders Live
- Three branches of American government and three Texas presidents are the topic of this well-developed democracy lesson
- This is a KWL geography lesson on the migration of Monarch butterflies
- Here is another lesson that answers the question "Which ball bounces the highest?"
- This lesson is meant to help students Understand Hurricanes (uses Internet sites)
- 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
- Plotting Facts
- This lesson is on Hurricanes, particularly in Florida
- "How to make Fake Warts" might make a great Halloween lesson
- Here's one on Spider Webs
- This lesson introduces the human skeleton
- Table of Contents
- This lesson builds familiarity with reference sources by researching night creatures (good for Halloween)
- Students use Linnaeus's system to classify animals and their own system to classify objects in this lesson
- This Rain Forest lesson involves People, Animals, and Life in the Rain Forest
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students use K'NEX to Design and Build a Bridge
- Curriculum Web of Activities
- This one is helpful in teaching about The Water Cycle
- This is a very interesting multidisciplinary lesson on changes in matter with chocolate
- This lesson is on objects that conduct and contain heat
- 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?
- Lesson 10 involves Interviewing Skills to determine who should be the first to go to Mars
- This lesson plan looks at Animals and their Adaptations to the environment
- Here's a similar lesson plan on Tornadoes that also uses computers
- In this unique idea, students describe their classmates in positive math or scientific terms
- This is a good lesson plan on Changes of State of Matter
- This lesson plan is on Liquids and their different Densities and Weights
- Students use technology resources here to compare fat, sugar and calorie content of two restaurant meals in graph and table form
- Students learn about and create constellations and their myths in this dual subject lesson
- Here we learn about the four parts of a flower
- In this lesson, students write and illustrate a desert animal short story, similar in style toMama, Do You Love Me?
- In this lesson, students can Build a Car (an Index Card Car)
- We continue with Wedges in this lesson
- Here's a great lesson on Tracking Hurricanes
- Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
- This one is called "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
- 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
- Chief Seattle's Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson
- This one is on weather patterns and planning for severe weather
- In this fun idea students create travel brochures for the planets
- A Spider's Life Cycle
- In this osmosis idea, a carnation magically turns green
- You can use this lesson plan to teach about the Animals of the African Savannah
- Here's a lesson for looking at where and how plants and animals live
- This is a worksheet on the parts of an eye
- This is a very interesting geology lesson where students eat "Metamorphic Rock Pancakes"
- In the last lesson, students will use their Interviewing Skill with guest speakers
- This atom and electric energy lesson demonstrates the relationship between electrical force and particle weight
- Lesson 8 helps to decide what it would take to "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before"
- Students work collaboratively here to create ecosystem concept maps using Kidspiration software
- This is a well-developed lesson on good/bad bacteria and the proper way to wash hands
- Here is another cloud lesson
- Here's a good lesson on the water cycle and the importance of water
- This lesson looks at the structure of atoms
- This is a simple and very effective blood type compatibility demonstration
- This is an excellent multidisciplinary rock and mineral unit
- This lab experiment demonstrates osmosis
- This lesson on Teeth focuses on the Care of, Growth, and Names of Teeth
- This is a DNA lesson called "Breaking The Code"
- A Science lesson on Weather on the Internet
- Here students make topographic maps with stacked cardboard and tracing paper
- In this lesson, the poem "Tommy" inspires students in their house plant maintainance and observation tasks
- In the "Washer Toss" measurement game, mixed number addition is practiced as well as physics concepts
- In this on-line geology course, students post their volcano/earthquake/glacier reports for on-line peer evaluation
- "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 students prepare a colorful Excel Solar System Chart
- Researching Spiders
- Here is a fun physics idea for predicting and comparing the bounce of various sports balls
- Spaghetti Webs
- "Sharpie Tie Dye" is a cool and easy idea that really works
- This A-Z endangered animal research project requires a triorama of creative writing projects
- In this lesson, insects and the internet intermingle to inspire an informational poster
- Part four is on Planets, Soil, and Nutrients
- Called "My Life As A Tree," this lesson is on Tree Rings, Bark, Cambium, and Heartwood
- Here's a well-written full unit on the 6 Simple Machines
- In this composting project, students discover how much school waste can be saved
- This lesson will help you teach the Metric System
- This great lesson plan on the heart is called "How Does Your Heart Rate?"
- The principles of cohesion and adhesion are demonstrated in this quick and easy science activity
- Title: Evidence of Interactions
- This lesson culminates in the creation of rainforest terrariums
- Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
- "How Viruses Travel" is the topic of this lesson plan
- 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
- 10 Earth Day Classroom Activities
- Here is a lesson on the human genome project
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- A fun idea for an online lesson on Leap Year
- Students love this Earth Day Jeopardy game activity (Special Ed - 3-12)
- Culminating Activity-Field Trip
- Rocks are the subject of this Science lesson
- Simply called "Lunch Time," this one is about Carnivores and Omnivores
- This lesson plan also teaches the water cycle and the different states of water
- This Art lesson involves Painting (or Drawing) Sunsets and Landscapes and some Geology study too
- A Science and Art lesson on creating a Rain Stick (Music and Social Studies too)
- An Earth Day history timeline is created here
- This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
- A Spider's Venom
- In this "Follow the Drinking Gourd" activity, students create a big dipper looking glass and write their personal meaning of freedom
- This lesson on Lungs is called the "Breathing Machine"
- This lesson uses Owl Pellets to aid in studying the Skeletal System
- Lesson Plan 2 - Building the Biggest Walls
- This lesson plan is on the Interacting Systems of the Human Body
- Ecosystem in a Box
- Weather Thematic Unit
- Solids, Liquids, and Gases
