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Science Lesson Plans - Grades PreK-1
- Aquatic Wildlife and Pollution
- Learning About Plants
- 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
- Parts of a Spider
- Jumping like Kangaroos
- This is an idea for an Easter science sensory table
- Here kids record and draw journal observations about the needs of their growing seeds
- This cardinal-inspired paper craft teaches children about circles and cutting on a curved line.
- This section focuses on Literature on the Ocean
- This lesson employs bubbles to observe changing wind speeds and directions
- Here students put dots on butterfly wings and then find the sums of their creation
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This one is on senses in science and language arts
- Students identify causes of pollution and ways they can prevent it in this bilingual photo story
- This Vivaldi's "Spring" lesson correlates music with weather and history
- 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
- Here students discover that magnets can work through nonmetal materials
- This is a cute song or fingerplay about apples
- Read this lesson and then "Go Fly a Kite"
- This brief idea on seeds uses a jelly bean to show how seeds grow
- Here's an artistic idea for learning about Spiders
- This dinosaur lesson plan focuses on the Pteranodon
- 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 geography lesson asks the question: "Weather - where does it come from?"
- This art and science lesson asks students "What's Inside The Egg?"
- Drawing 4 Children (free download) is used in this idea to create a dinosaur habitat
- This is a week-long multidisciplinary unit on spring and plants
- In this clever Easter science experiment, students witness absorption, diffusion, and primary color combinations while creating coffee filter Easter egg
- "The Amazing Caterpillar" lesson utilizes live butterfly kits, internet sites, books, puppets, etc. to investigate the life cycle of a butterfly
- In this lesson, students use Kidspiration and learn the difference between the terms reuse and recycle
- Here is a fantastic multidisciplinary spider unit titled "Spooky Spiders and Wacky Webs"
- 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
- Here's an idea for an Earth Day Song
- This fun lesson on Colors, Shapes, and Flowers is called "Planting A Rainbow"
- "The Great Melt Race," a well-developed 5E Science Teaching Model about melting ice, contains special directions for students with cochlear implants
- This awesome demonstration is simply magic - seriously, go try it now!
- This is an idea for teaching melting that uses the book "Snowballs"
- Here's a fun idea for studying Insects that involves a new type of Painting
- Students Mix Food Colors to Dye Eggs in this lesson appropriate for Easter
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- This multidisciplinary lesson centers on cookies and the letter "C"
- This lesson on insects involves observing a cricket
- "The Great Kapok Tree" is used to teach about Rain Forest Trees here
- These are preschool "bee counting" activities
- Young students create and label their own paper plant here
- This is a graphing heart candy lesson with a science twist and a good "relevancy" section
- After listening to a story about Tyrannosaurus rex, students write sentences about this dinosaur
- Children identify animals using camouflage in these activities
- The question "What if Dinosaurs Returned?" is answered in this classroom book lesson
- 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
- An idea for Color Mixing that uses Gelatin
- This is a Special Education lesson idea on What Sinks and Floats
- A Science lesson on Acids and Bases for the earlier grades
- A Science lesson on items that Sink or Float
- A tagboard circus clown is used in this body parts mini-lesson
- The life cycle of a butterfly is taught here with books, poems, story assignments, and pasta art
- Students prepare and eat a healthy vegetable snack in this step-by-step idea
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- "Bottles Of Fun" is an idea for looking at waves and water movement
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- If you need a math component for a rainforest unit, try this fruit loop graphing idea
- 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 lesson is on concrete (for an Architecture theme) and involves making a Footprint Stepping Stone
- A Lesson on Rainbows, their History, and their history
- Here's a lesson for measuring Magnetic Strength
- In this idea students make handprint spiders
- This is a lesson on zoo animals and the hot or cold climate from which they came
- This is an idea for making a four seasons tree booklet
- Click here to read, write, sing, estimate, graph, and eat apples
- A collection of activites to introduce Mammals to young students
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- 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
- The book "What Do Fairies Do With All Those Teeth" is used in this lesson
- This lesson on Plant Parts involves their Function and a Mobile
- This lesson explores just the sense of touch
- 5 Step Lesson Plan - Falling Leaves
- With the help of "The Hungry Caterpillar," this "Fruit Unit" also teaches days of the week and graphing
- 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 is a kindergarten stormy vs. fluffy cloud activity
- This lesson on Rainbows involves students creating a Crayon Resist
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- This lesson is on Seeds and Fruits with and without Seeds
- An "Edible Slime" alginate polymer is mixed up here from brown seaweed
- This lesson plan is on melting snow and thermometers
- This idea develops grouping/classification skills
- In this lesson, students craft and classify snowflakes
- This lesson looks at Plants compared to Trees, Edible Parts, and involves a Celery Analysis
- This lesson idea is on the three States of Water
- This lesson idea is on color and paint palettes
- This is an idea for growing shamrocks
- Here's an idea for students to create books about "Things That Fly"
- This miscible/immiscible lesson demonstrates how oil and detergents pollute water
- This one uses the book "Fang The Dentist" and is about Going to the Dentist
- A Science lesson on Leaves and Observation (uses some Math)
- Here we make an Oobleck (with the help of Dr. Seuss)
- This Johnny Appleseed lesson includes geography, transportation, U.S. history, sense of taste, graphing, and story illustration
- 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
- "Dinosaur Prints" are created in this lesson
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- A Language Arts Lesson Plan on Nature
- This one deals with Magnetic Attraction through Objects
- The goal of this portion is to teach about the Bird's Body
- This lesson is on the seasons and measuring temperature
- This interesting lesson mixes two topics: The Five Senses and Poetry
- This lesson is on germs and cleanliness
- Here is a "Baggie Butterfly" art project to complement an insect unit
- This is a Rain Forest song
- In this well-developed Pre-K/Special Ed fish pond lesson four and one-half fish are counted
- This idea is to be used as an Introduction to Animals and involves Role Playing
- Here's one on Spider Webs
- This lesson is "All About Ants"
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- Students identify and count shapes and colors used while constructing Geometry Animals here
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- This lesson is on Volcanic Eruptions and involves creating a Volcano in class
- This lesson on Seeds uses the book "Now I Know All About Seeds"
- In this unique idea, students describe their classmates in positive math or scientific terms
- After this dinosaur lesson, students will be able to compare and contrast ten different types
- Here's an interesting idea for creating Fish Paintings (and studying Fish)
- Here's a lesson for Valentine's Day called Love Bugs, used to discuss Bugs
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- This winter demonstration answers the question: "When does snow melt?"
- 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
- 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
- Healthy Food Choices
- Students investigate and create flowers using inventive materials for an "April Showers - Bring Me Flowers" mural in this lesson
- "Round the Clock" is a unit on time to the half-hour and digital/analog clocks
- 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
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- Here students use the internet to track the weather online
- Here's a large, 5 day thematic unit on Penguins
- Using the book, "The Magpies' Nest," this lesson teaches how Birds Build Nests and allows students to Build Nests
- Here insect literature is read
- Create a simple shoebox lid shadow box here with potpourri and craft stick flowers
- This portion teaches about the Ocean Food Chain
- Here's a discussion of the Ships on the Ocean
- Something different - a fun lesson idea on feet
- This is a lesson plan on tornadoes and their location
- This lesson plan is on the "Layers of the Rain Forest"
- This rainforest bird lesson is an introduction to research and CD art
- This lesson answers the question: How do we hear sound?
- In this well-developed lesson, students create a Photo Story 3 presentation on the life cycle of a plant
- This simple activity shows how the sun and heat affect things
- This lesson looks at Arachnids and their Webs and compares them to Insects
- "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)
- A Science lesson plan on day and night
- This "Fall Scavenger Hunt" collects observations of autumn
- 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's a Seasons Book idea
- Here are some ideas for teaching about spiders using "Miss Spider's Tea Party"
- Students use their sense of touch while making these textured collages
- This in depth lesson plan is on Discovering The World Around Us with our Senses
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- 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 is another great lesson on the sense of touch
- Here students observe the life cycle of mealworms while taking care of their needs
- A lesson on the Causes of Pollution
- Called "My Life As A Tree," this lesson is on Tree Rings, Bark, Cambium, and Heartwood
- This lesson plan uses science and see-through fish
- With the aid of Kidspiration, children sort natural and man-made objects here
- This idea is called "Guess The Animal" using Animal Sounds
- Here's a good Attention Getting idea called "Give Me Five!" (all Five Senses that is)
- 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
- This is a lesson on baby farm animals
- 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
- This lesson deals with Plants That Never Bloom
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- Tooth Brushing and Keeping Decay Away are discussed here
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- A lesson plan on Problem Solving with Magnets
- Kid Pix software is used here to create an animal habitat and climate slide show
- "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
- Here children explore the sun's warmth and observe how heat causes change in bags of chocolate
- Geo-spiders are made while discussing conflicts in this Anansi related lesson
- Children "skate" to the meter of waltz music in this cold weather idea
- 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 lesson is on the North and South Poles of a Magnet
- "W is for Worm" is the title of this cinquain poem lesson
- Spring Time (Caterpillars)
- Topic: Sound... 3 lessons
