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Pumpkin Life Cycle
Pumpkin Life Cycle
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Halloween, Fall, Science, ELA
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Reading, Writing, Science, Life Cycles
Description: Read and discuss about the pumpkin life cycle. Then using differentiated templates, students draw, label and write about the life cycle. Upper grades practice writing paragraphs using transition words.
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Egg-cellent Race
Egg-cellent Race
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Spring, Easter, Science, ELA, Math, Social Studies
Type:
Games, Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Math, ELA, Science, or Social Studies, Teamwork, Holiday
Description: Your students will have an “egg”citing time running through a relay around the classroom, having to stop at each work station to complete a problem without dropping their egg (all before the timer runs out)! Create question cards to link to the current content in your classroom and watch as your students work in teams to solve problems and earn points. The challenge is carrying an egg on a spoon when moving from one question to the next. This activity can be adapted for grades K-5.
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How do Polar Animals Stay Warm? Learning About Blubber
How do Polar Animals Stay Warm? Learning About Blubber
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Winter Holidays, Winter, Science, ELA
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: science, writing, reading
Description: Want to teach your students how polar animals stay warm? This activity will help your students learn how animals that swim in the ocean (such as penguins, seals, whales, sea lions, elephant seals, and walruses) stay warm. Read a book about one or more of these animals to start the conversation about how these animals stay warm in extreme cold conditions. (For Grades K-5)
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Ice Experiment
Ice Experiment
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Winter Holidays, Winter, Science
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Scientific Method, Science Experiments, Writing
Description: Nothing says winter like some ice! Let your students experiment to find out what happens to ice when it is put in water, salt, sugar, and left alone. Students will use the scientific method to work through this experiment and record their findings. (Grades K-5)
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How to Catch an Elf-Writing, Craft, & STEM Elf Trap
How to Catch an Elf-Writing, Craft, & STEM Elf Trap
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Winter Holidays, Winter, Science, Math
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity
Description: A STEAM holiday lesson has students using differentiated writing templates to write about their elf, creating their elf, and then using collaborative teamwork to engineer a trap to catch an elf.
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Holiday Science Experiments
Holiday Science Experiments
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Winter Holidays, Winter, Science
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Science: Scientific Method, Holidays, Writing
Description: Get your students thinking like a scientist this holiday season. Using these two brief experiments and printable data collection sheets your students will work through the Scientific Method. They will discover what happens to candy canes and gingerbread men when they are placed in various liquids. (Ideal for grades K-3)