In this short video, join Brandon and Emily on a nature hike with Falyn from the NC Wildlife Resources Commission as they discover all kinds of plants and animals and learn a thing or two about the amazing nature of North Carolina!

Students learn about honey bee communication through participation in two specific dances. This lesson offers a glimpse of the cooperative efforts required for honey bee survival.

Students will learn about our human senses and how they compare to that of a honey bee, specifically with regard to the sense of smell. Students will test each other's ability to differentiate between different odors.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Investigating Inherited Traits and Learned Behavior." It is a performance task that can be used to assess student understanding of the concepts addressed in the lesson. Students are asked to illustrate and describe how an organism meets its basic needs by relying on a behavior learned in response to living in a certain environment.

We have been rearing salmon in our classroom for a long time, and the students love it. The project before this point was very teacher lead and much of the care, and set up was done for the students. We are excited to make a student-led project based unit that will better cover the content and incorporate the standards we are looking to teach.

In this lesson, students learn about kelp forest ecosystems. They will also make observations of organisms within a kelp forest habitat via an aquariurm webcam and complete an ethogram based on an organism's observed behaviors.

This site provides educational videos, quizzes and games about amphibians for students at varied grade levels. Teachers or students can make an online presentation and save it for homework or a school task. This resource supports English language development of English language learners.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. These videos about birds show and discuss birds of prey, nesting birds, and other birds as they interact with their environment. The narrators speak slowly enough to permit teacher interaction. Students can also play games to identify birds. Teachers or students can make an online presentation and save it for homework or a school task.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This site provides science videos, lessons, quizzes and games about insects, spiders, centipedes. Games include labeling the life cycle of an insect, identifying insects, among others. Two also quizzes included. Videos should be viewed and evaluated for grade-level appropriateness before showing in class.

Students will observe and record the behavior of crickets. They will watch closely as the animal moves around in its container (empty, with shelter present, with food present). They will graph results after data collection is complete.

In this short video, students will learn how female loggerhead sea turtles make their way to beaches all along the Atlantic Ocean to lay their eggs.

In this short video, students join Emily and Dr. Bronwyn Williams from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences as they head to three different North Carolina locations to explore the world of crayfish!

In this short video, accompanying activities, and readings, students learn about North Carolina's State Reptile - the Eastern Box Turtle! Students also learn how State Park Rangers collect data on these turtles and how that helps us learn more about them and protect them.

In this short video and accompanying activity and readings, students learn about the Weymouth Woods Sandhills Preserve and the many unique plants and animals that call this type of ecosystem home - including the red-cockaded woodpecker.

In this activity, students use observation to explore earthworm anatomy and the nature of science.

Students will observe mealworms and earthworms and then make and record observations about their behavior. Students will differentiate between learned and instinctual/inherited behaviors by observing the worms' actions in a variety of scenarios.

Students listen to a read aloud of a children's science book and watch a short video on how plankton migrate in the ocean. Students write a poem describing their feelings about what they heard and saw.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade Science. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade Science.

In this activity, students are given roles in a skit designed to illustrate how a salt marsh works and how the organisms in it interact with each other.