Science Lessons

Let the weather help you dress

This is a great lesson plan for Kindergarten students because weather is something we talk about every morning.  During morning meetings, students can incorporate the weather vocabulary that they learn through doing this lesson, as well as make predictions.  What I like most about this lesson is that we can use this as a cross curricular lesson.  This lesson can be brought over into math as the students graph the weather over a course of a month.


Insects, Insects, Insects!

This lesson allows students to explore the insects around them, all while using other sources such as computers to learn more and ask experts important questions.  Insects are something children are either fascinated with, or disgusted by, but this is a great lesson because it provides the children with a great experience no matter how they currently feel about insects - and it could quit possibly change their minds!

Clifford Learns about Seasons, and so do we!

Through this lesson children will identify dates, such as their birthdays, and learn about the season in which it falls.  Students learn to associate different types of weather to a specific season.  This is a great lesson so that children explore the weather around them, and talk about not just the weather in present day but also what is to come.

Ocean Life

This is a great lesson plan for children to get to use technology.  Children are to research behaviors of dolphins, and weather and how that effects the ocean.  Children will also get practice using a graphic organizer as they record their findings, and write down their questions.

Where do Chickens and Worms live?

In this lesson students will first define the word environemt and then discover how differnet animals physical features are matche to their environment.  Students will explore their own environment and compare and contrast it to other animals environments.  This is a great lesson to broaden the minds of children and inform them of different environments, rather then just theirs. 

How do Chicken and Worms help people?

This is a great cross curricular lesson because we are recognizing how animals help humans, but also practicing writing.  After reading The Chicken and the Worm students should be able to identify how these animals help us, which is also a great comprehension activity.

Building a Worm bin

In this lesson students will learn how to build a worm bin and properly take care of it.  This is teaching responsibily, but also showing students the importance of giving a creature what it needs in order to successfully live within its environment. 

Origami Butterflies

This is an art lesson that can easily be used when teaching about the life cycle of a butterfly.  This is a great way for children to use their fine motor skills and explore through art.

Rainbows

This is a fun activity to do when following a lesson about rainbows.  This directly corresponds with weather, and how and when rainbows are formed.  Children will find this activity fun, as well as beneficial in learning the order of the colors of a rainbow.

Senses

This activity is designed to focus on the 5 senses.  Explaining to the children that almost everyone has 5 senses is important because they begin to learn the similarities in people.  Discussing each sense by itself first and making sure the children understand the sense is important before moving onto the next sense.  Once they have learned all of the senses, they can begin to see how sometimes they work together!