2nd Grade Musical Straws
(View Complete Item Description)Students will create a musical pipe using straws of different lengths. They will create their own tune.
Material Type: Interactive
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Animal Body Structure and Habitat
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn about different adaptations of body structures and how the type of environment that an animal lives in and how they survive in that environment is often related to body structure.
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Animal Classification
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will sort pictures or small plastic animals into groups. Students classify animals as to where they live; whether they have scales, feathers, or hair; and whether they have hands, wings, flippers, or fins.
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Animal Coverings
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will learn about animal coverings and what the coverings do for the animals in their environment.
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Animal Habitats
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore animal habitats
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Animal Life Cycles
(View Complete Item Description)This young child website provides links to information and worksheets detailing life cycles of a variety of animals including, mammals, amphibians, reptile, birds, and arthropods.
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Animal Life Cycles (2nd)
(View Complete Item Description)Compare various life cycles of animals.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Animal Research
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn about an animal and complete a graphich organizer to show their understanding.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Reading, Unit of Study
Are We Finished With It Yet?: Sustaining Natural Resources
(View Complete Item Description)In this introductory lesson, students learn about vocabulary such as recycle, reuse and conserve. In small cooperative groups, students are given a common object to first determine its possible uses and then to determine ways to use the waste of their object. Students record their ideas on a poster and share with their classmates. A culminating class project includes creating a Powerpoint presentation.
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Are You My Mother?
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will discover baby animals look similar to their parents and match pictures of adult animals with their offspring.
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Assessing Human Hearing
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore some of the qualities of our sense of hearing and its usefulness to us. They can also begin to consider what the consequences could be of hearing impairment.
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The Banza
(View Complete Item Description)After listening to the story The Banza, by: Diane Wolkstein students will review elements of sound and then work to create an instrument.
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Be a Recycling Superhero
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explain the need to reduce the amount of trash they generate, and describe ways in which they can make changes in their actions to support waste reduction.
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Birds' Bills
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will compare and contrast different kinds of birds' bills and categorize pictures. After drawing the bills in each category, they will then compare the bill types with common household items.
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Build Your Own Thermometer
(View Complete Item Description)Students build a thermometer and then compare its performance against a regular thermometer.
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Build a Band Challenge
(View Complete Item Description)In this design challenge activity, learners build a four-stringed instrument that can play a tune. This lesson plan includes information on sound energy and pitch and the design process, as well as how to integrate two video clips into the activity. This activity can be followed up with the "Headphone Helper" activity from the same resource.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Build an Online Habitat
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson students will select a series of biomes, animals, vegetations, and precipitation to see how compatible they are.
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The Case of the Disappearing Water
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students read and answer questions about a short story called "The Case of the Disappearing Water," in which characters investigate a possible crime scene and use observations about water evaporation to deduce how many days the "victim" might have been missing.
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Changes in Matter: I'm Freezing
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is an activity in which students answer the question, "What happens to the mass of water when it freezes?".
Material Type: Reading