Explore the differences between minerals and rocks.

Use a thermometer to measure the air temperature in several places around the school.

Group pictures of animals into similar groups to practice classification.

Learn about the barometer and how it helps to predict the weather.

Understand that there are reasons that summer and winter storms are different.

Predict and test everyday objects as to whether they sink or float.

Understand how plants and their roots help slow the erosion process.

Learn all about the basic meteorological instruments.

Fourth graders will write a story about how a drop of water may have traveled to arrive at the school.

Activity demonstrates how heating air will cause air to rise and become a low-pressure area.

These activities will help students understand the properties of water.

Build a water thermometer out of straws and film canisters.

Understand the effect of the forces of push and pull on motion.

Understand that the moon shines by reflecting sunlight.

Classification activity relating to plants and animals.

Study the properties of rocks.

Learn how salt increases the density of water and creates a condition of buoyancy.

Analyze the physical characteristics of 12 different birds and consider how this enables them to survive in their individual habitats.

Create a map of your bedroom and your house.

The greater the force applied to an object, the greater the change in speed or direction of the object.

Students will compare two primary accounts of overland travel in the 1860s,one by stagecoach, the other by railroad, to see how travel changed upon completion of the transcontinental railroad.

Third graders will invent a gadget using one or more simple machines and write about it.

Second graders will engage in nonfiction reading and writing strategies that will help them describe and adopt safe and healthy behaviors. An anticipation guide, a song, and several high-interest trade books will engage the the readers...

For this lesson, students will sing the song There Was an Old Lady to learn about the topic of probability. Using a spinner with the lyrics from the song, students will play a game and record the number of times each topic from the song...