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    Summer Reading (Grades 3-5)

    Summer reading for grades 3-5, with activities! Pick any book from this list of the best kids' books and your students…

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    Animals of the Rainforest Lesson

    Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to learn about the behaviors and physical characteristics of…

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    Rainforests
    Animals (Zoology)
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    Build a Volcano

    Build a volcano using common kitchen supplies. This fun science activity is perfect for National Chemistry Week…

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    Making Fossils

    Make dinosaur bones or fossils with these clever ideas.

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    Fossils
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    Observing Sound Waves

    Students will conduct an experiment that will allow them to see sound waves in action.

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    Physics
    Sound (Acoustics)
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    Class Garden

    Create a class garden with this lesson plan. Your students will observe the growth of the plants after the garden has…

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    Plants and Botany
    Plant Life Cycles
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    Can Sound Travel Through Things?

    Through simple experimentation, students will learn how sound waves function and travel.

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    Physics
    Sound (Acoustics)
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    Plant Eaters and Meat Eaters

    In this science lesson plan, elementary students will learn about dinosaurs that were meat eaters versus plant eaters,…

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    Herbs in the Classroom

    Grow herbs indoors all year by creating a mini-greenhouse.

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  • How Does Your Garden Grow?

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    How Does Your Garden Grow?

    By making their own miniature garden, students can observe first hand how plants grow.

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    How Do Different Surfaces Affect the Momentum of Marbles?

    Help your pupils better understand momentum with this hands-on activity. Pupils are challenged to use various equations…

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    Physics
    Motion and Momentum
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    How Can You Make a Thermometer?

    The first thing most people notice about weather is the temperature. This activity will show you how to make a…

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    Arctic and Polar Regions
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    Inertia in Motion

    Through experimentation, students will learn about the first law of motion, including inertia, force, and friction.

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    Physics
    Newton's Laws
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    Glacial Pressure

    A hands-on science activity will help students to understand the effects of pressure exerted on snow and the forming of…

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    Weather
    Seasons
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    Weather Station

    With a student-made weather station and/or the Internet, students measure weather in a variety of ways, write about…

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    Weather
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    Make Your Own Solar Eclipse

    Students learn how and why solar eclipses occur with this hands-on science activity. They create their own eclipse using…

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    Science Projects
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  • Hurricanes

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    Hurricanes

    Teach students how hurricanes develop and how these powerful storms are named.

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  • Imaginary Insect Zoo

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    Imaginary Insect Zoo

    Students will make imaginary insects which have the essential characteristics of an insect, such as six legs and three…

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    Insects
    Biology
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    Traveling Seeds

    Children discover how seeds hitch a ride with the wind, in the water, or on an animal to become planted and grow.

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    Plants and Botany
    Seeds and Pollination
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    Flower and Leaf Press

    Students press flowers and plants with heavy books to make lovely decorations. Then, they use the pressed flowers to…

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    Rainforest Products Lesson

    Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to learn about products native to tropical rain forests.

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    Natural Resources Conservation
    Habitats and Ecosystems
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    Great, Big Enormous Animals

    Students walk the length of various animals to get a sense of their size.

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    How to Blow Up a Balloon with a Glass Bottle

    Inspire your pupils with this printable science activity about air temperature and the expansion of molecules. Pupils…

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  • Building a Weather Vane

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    Building a Weather Vane

    Build a weather vane and show students how to use it to determine wind direction.

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