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Windmills have been around for generations to grind food and create energy. During this challenge, students will use various materials and put their engineering skills to work by creating their own windmills.

Get your students to be builders and create structures with a variety of materials. Students will have the opportunity to be creative, cooperate in groups, and discuss their experience.

Coral reef life comes alive in this fun label and match activity that challenges students’ deductive reasoning skills and allows for artistic expression.

From seed to flower, students will learn all about the life cycle of a plant in this science lesson. Your class will discover what living things need to grow, and learn the various stages of a plant’s life span, with new vocabulary words.

What do a bicycle and a car have in common? They both move using the simple machine wheel and axle. In this lesson, students learn about how this simple machine works, and will identify objects that use a wheel and axle.

In this lesson, students will solve a design problem as they create a marble maze out of LEGO bricks.

Root, stem, flower, leaf! In this hands-on science lesson, your students will create their own plants to help them identify and remember the parts of a plant.

What is a robot? What can robots do? Computer programmers tell robots what to do by creating a sequence of commands. In this lesson, students work in pairs to program a robot to act out the story from the mini story book My Friend.

In this lesson, students will solve a design problem and practice troubleshooting as they create a list of instructions for putting together a tent.

In this lesson, students will create a set of instructions for navigating a life-size maze.

In this lesson, your students will explore the properties of solids and learn to describe them in various ways.

This fun and interactive lesson will teach your students the scientific method to find out if something sinks or floats with a little help from Cookie Monster.

One of the basic concepts in science is recognizing that all things can be classified as living or nonliving. In this lesson, your students will explore the characteristics of living and nonliving things with engaging hands-on activities.

How does your garden grow? In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension, vocabulary, and story sequencing. This hands-on art and literacy lesson is perfect for Earth Day, or any nature unit.

This hands-on lesson will get your students to investigate some mystery liquids, and they will have to use their observational skills to figure out what they are.

Students connect dots to find stars used to navigate north and create a constellation of their own in this creative game format.

Your students will enjoy this hands on lesson where they make simple solutions and mixtures. They will have an opportunity to predict and observe solids that dissolve in water.

Introduce students to the term algorithm using the familiar story of The Three Little Pigs. In this lesson, students will develop an algorithm, or a step-by-step sequence of instructions, for building a house made out of bricks.

Have your students get energized while they learn about animal locomotion and move around like various animals!

Transform the traditional egg drop experiment as you help students to engage in design thinking and develop empathy.

Come on in, the water’s fun! In this activity, students see the water cycle in action with ordinary objects and learn the water the dinosaurs tasted is still around.

Get your young scientists out of the classroom and into nature with this interactive science lesson.

Life cycles go around and around! In this technology-integrated lesson, students will research various animal life cycles and write about them.

In this lesson, students will learn to create a simple algorithm using block code. The platform used for this activity is a website created by Google that provides free educational games that teach students to program using block code.

Science can be sticky! This interactive lesson with an ooey-gooey ending will solidify your students' understanding of the states of matter!

In this lesson, you will use “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to teach students about the butterfly life cycle. After listening to the story read aloud, students will use their knowledge to create their own butterfly life cycles!

Help your class gain a foundational understanding of matter by learning how to conduct inquiry and gain an understanding about the characteristics of gases. This lab will have your students amazed at what is really in the air.

Students will go wild for this hands-on habitat lesson. Who can help the animals find their homes?

Heads up! Students become cloud experts before making custom clouds, complete with weather predictions!

This lesson engages students in activity to help them understand the phases of the Moon, and why they occur. Students read literature, analyze it, and then apply it to the small group performance of one cycle of the Moon’s phases.