Check out this outdoor lesson Mrs. Good and I did with her fourth graders! The activity comes out of Project WET. We tweaked it to teach probability, and brought the kids outside. There is no lesson plan to go with it – it was one of those impromptu lessons, but watch the video to see [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure of introducing 3rd and 4th graders at Gale-Bailey Elementary School to my pet worms. The lesson was a combination of the “Wiggling Worms” lesson in More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons published by NSTA (my new favorite book of the year, by the way!), our HBF lesson on vermiculture, and my [...]
We took the first graders outside and acted out a tree’s life cycle borrowing a PLT activity. Then, students each collected one seed from the ground (we primarily had acorns and sweet gum tree seeds available). Back inside the classroom, we diagrammed a simple tree life cycle, and students created their own diagram using their [...]