In this lesson, students will create an animal that is camouflaged for a certain area of the classroom.
In this lesson, students will distinguish between solid, liquid,and gas in a simple demonstration where an effervescent tablet is added to water.
In this lesson, students will build a model forest ecosystem with various pieces of gym equipment and use the model to discuss how things are related in the forest.
In this lesson, students will rotate through a series of stations and complete simple experiments and demonstrations to explore the differences between physical and chemical changes.
In this lesson, students learn about soil profiles and how they can change in depth or nutrient composition based on changes in vegetation and even animal activity through discussion and viewing a clip from "The Lion King."
In this lesson, students understand how different organisms living in the same area depend on one another for their source of energy. After this lesson the students should have a better understanding of the concept of a food chain.
In this lesson, students will investigate how sounds are produced by different vibrations.
In this lesson, students identify common landforms and will create models of how they appear on Earth's surface.
In this lesson, students will use their bodies and jump ropes to exemplify the different ways we use motion.
In this lesson, students will model erosion and weathering.
In this lesson, students learn about the process of voting through a class election. The main objective is to see if students understand qualities important in a leader and elements involved in an election.
Students will explore the world of Medieval Europe. They will learn the way the people lived and how Phragmites was part of this world. Students will then be assigned a social class role in the system of feudalism and research information about their character's privileges and disadvantages. Students will experience the feudal system through activities and presentations to relay what they learned to their class. Students may choose a variety of creative outlets to express their character's life in their own creative way with a group or separately.
In this lesson, students will examine fire as a light source and determine that it requires air to continue burning.
In this lesson, students will explore friction as a force. They will experiment with sandpaper and by rolling a ball across the floor. They will then create balloon-powered box cars and race them on 2 different surfaces.
In this lesson, students will work in collaborative groups to design a poster advertising their assigned system of the body and present it to the class in review of all of the systems of the body.
In this lesson, students will explore the force of gravity through several simple demonstrations.
In this lesson, students learn what plants need to grow and the changes that plants go through.
In this lesson, students learn about the different ways we measure and observe the weather. Students make their own rain gauges and practice using them to measure rainfall amounts. They will also make weather journals which can be used to track weather data over a long period of time.
In this lesson, students learn how to create electromagnets using batteries, copper wire, metal (nail), and paper clips. Students will then identify what objects are attracted to magnets, and how this attraction works.
In this kinesthetic lesson, students will play the roles of the different components of the heart and experience the pathway of the blood through the heart by playing the role of blood.