Rock & Roll This lesson plan would be good for 1st grade, and it's focus is rocks. The students will predict what they think will happen to the rocks, describe, observe and record changes in the rocks, and apply their learning by describing forces that break down and wear away rocks. This lesson involves taking a rock outside and smashing it and then running water over it to see the changes.
Weather Patterns In this lesson students learn how weather changes from day to day. This lesson could be used for grades k-2nd. Students will construct bar graphs, and keep daily records of the days temperatures, precipitation, and wind. This lesson would take about a week to do in a classroom so the students had a weeks worth of data to understand.
Seasons change the Weather In this lesson plan students discover how the weather changes with the seasons. This lesson is a follow up lesson, or part two lesson, for Weather Patterns, and so it can also be used for grades k-2. In this lesson, students will identify the different patterns of weather within the different seasons. To do this the teacher could ask them questions like, "If we were taking these observations in September, how would they differ from the ones we take in February?"
Volcanoes!! In this lesson, students not only learn about volcanoes but actually make ones themselves! The students will learn how different things like volcanoes change the earths surface, as well as when the volcano itself explodes, how it's shape changes. Students would be placed in groups of 5-6 and have 2 student activity sheets to fill out during this whole process.
Quite like an Egg In this lesson students learn about the importance of eggs, like the fact that they are packed with protein and have a good source of Vitamin A, D, and B. To do this lesson you would need different kinds of chicken eggs, so brown and white, as well as either a tape measure or some string and a ruler. While reading the book with this lesson students learn different facts about eggs and will eventually draw pictures of the different eggs and be able to explain the differences.
Wave Maker In this lesson students will make models of waves using two different methods. Start by having them think about their past experiences with waves and ask if they can study waves in the classroom. Students will need to think of ways to create waves in the classroom with the given materials-pan and water. Then the students will be given bottles, oil, food coloring, and water and have to make waves this way and then compare the differences.
Dinosaurs In this lesson students will learn about dinosaurs; who studies them, what happened to them, how did they survive when they were alive, and what did they eat? Then the students can paint dinosaur eggs, make a claw from cardboard and other manipulatives, and play dinosaur bingo with their newly learned facts!
Hay Day! With this lesson, students will make their very own farm! The students would need Lego's Duplo's, or other building materials, little figurines, to represent their farm. To begin you should ask them questions about farms using their prior knowledge. As a pair, the students will need to construct their farm to look how they want it to, and then hand out the farm animals so they can place them where they belong.
Blast Off! With this lesson students will design and build their own spaceship, satellite, or their own space station. Their should be an example of either one, or each of the students options so they have an idea of where to start or what theirs should sort of resemble. The students would need to work in pairs and decide what they want to build and what they want to build it out of, and once complete share them with the classroom.
Earthquake! This lesson plan teaches students how important it is to have an evacuation, or safety plan in times of danger. The students are to pretend that an earthquake just hit and they have to help save the people from the damage that was caused. There are questions that the students should be able to answer with this lesson like: "What might you use to clear the rubble on the road?" Due to the questions, the students will have to keep everything in mind while making a plan to save the people.
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