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Lesson Plans 3-5

Resources | Professional
Lesson Plans: PreK-2 | 3 - 5 | 6 - 8 | 9 - 12

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Lesson Plans

• Body Length Experiment: Students will make graphs that compare the length of your students' bones to the length of their bodies.
  
  
• Ecosystem: Students will know that there are many different plants and animals living in many different kinds of environments by observing similarities and differences within several different environments within their community.
  
  
• Fetal Pig Make a video to demonstrate how to dissect a fetal pig.
  
  
• Food Chain: Students will know that animals eat plants or other animals to acquire the energy they need for survival by creating a food chain.
  
  
• Got Bugs Make a public service announcement to assist people with understanding the importance of frogs and toads.
  
  
• Hermit Crab Races: Students will measure the length of a hermit crab and a human.
  
  
• Human Body Parts: Students will locate and label body parts.
  
  
• Interactive Journeys: Students will use technology to enhance their field trip.
  
  
• Pulse Rates: Students will know that the human body is made of systems with structures and functions that are related by studying the relationship between the pulmonary and cardiovascular systems.
  
  
• Rainforest Make a presentation to convince government officials to let your group use the Rainforest.
  
  
• Roger Recycle Make a movie which highlights the benefits of recycling aluminum.
  
  
• Weather: Students will watch the weather each day of the school year and compare weather from each season using Appleworks Spreadsheet.

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  Internet Resources

• Animal Information Database
  http://www.seaworld.org/infobook.html
  These are resources from the Sea World/Busch Gardens Education Series, which provide many useful links to facts and information about animals.
  
  
• 50states.com
  http://www.50states.com/
  A great geography site with information on each of the 50 states including the capital of each state and the state bird.
  
  

• NWF's Nature Quest
  http://www.nwf.org/naturequest/
  Interactive environmental activities for kids of all ages with a focus on endangered species. These interdisciplinary activities are designed to introduce students to wildlife they can find right in their own backyard.
  
  
• Optics for Kids
  http://www.opticalres.com/kidoptx.html
  Some fun and interesting things about OPTICS - the science of LIGHT. Elementary school children might enjoy this quick look at some optical basics.
  
  
• Science Education Company
  http://www.krampf.com
  FPL is providing the presentations to public Elementary and Middle Schools in Florida. In addition, an email service provides teachers with a free science experiment each week
  
  
• Space Life Science
  http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/docs/justforfun/forfun.cfm
  One of the best ways to learn about space life sciences is to make a game of it. That is what this site has done. Click on the links to learn about space flight and what happens to the human body in space.
  
  
• UM Weather:
  http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
  Easy access to dozens of weather products--conditions, forecasts, warnings, radar, climate information, satellite photos, weather cams, etc.
  
  
• Yucky Roach World
  http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/roaches/
  A great site for children to discover all they could ever want to know about the roach!
  

Last Updated
August 4, 2005

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