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1st - 3rd Grade Science Lesson Plans

Walk, sleep, run, eat! We're constantly using energy, whether we're moving or not. In this lesson, students learn how their bodies are constantly converting potential energy into kinetic energy and kinetic energy back to potential energy.

Potential And Kinetic Energy

What is recycling all about? What can and can't be recycled? What can I do to help others understand the importance of recycling? This activity helps students answer all of these questions as they learn about saving planet Earth.

What is Recycling?

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

Animal Life Cycles, All Around

Let your students spread their wings with this lesson that teaches them about the life cycle of a butterfly. A fun song will get your class moving and a variety of different worksheets will suit any class.

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Introduce your students to the scientific concept of sink or float. This hands-on experiment allows them to see which objects sink and which float. The concepts taught will be solidified with the completion of worksheets.

Sink or Float

It&rsquo;s time to for your students to move onto learning more complex typing skills! This lesson teaches your students how to type capital letters, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks using correct finger placement.

Typing: Capital Letters and Punctuation

This simple lesson plan will help your students gain a basic understanding of different body parts.

My Body

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! 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Butterfly's Life Cycle

In this lesson, students will learn the term "troubleshooting" and practice solving problems using both tangible and virtual tools.

Troubleshooting

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

Constellation Connections

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


A Solid Investigation

Use this lesson to teach your students about the various types of forests by drawing them on a box!

Types Of Forests

Use this lesson to show your students the different types of solids, liquids, and gases. Show them how a solid turns into a liquid and how a liquid turns into a gas by using real life examples.

States Of Matter: Identifying Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Use this lesson to have your students research about a planet of their choice and present it to the class! This lesson will also give the creative students of your class an opportunity to make their own planets!

The Solar System: Learning about Planets

This lesson will make your students realize that even though they take their heart for granted, the heart is working hard to pump blood to different parts of the body to keep them healthy and running!

Heartbeats: Learning about the Heart

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.

Parts of a Plant

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

I Spy Clouds

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.

What's Your Phase?

Sink or float? This simple lesson has students guess the densities of different objects and place them into water to test their predictions.

Matter: Sink or Float

Without natural resources, our world would be a very different place. Help your class understand the importance of water, plants, and soil with this exploratory science lesson.

Natural Resources

Every season comes with different celebrations! In this lesson, your students will learn about the seasons while exploring different ways that people celebrate events in each season.

Explore the Seasons

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


Move Like an Animal!

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.

Sink or Float with the Cookie Monster

Use this lesson to teach your students about the different types of species and how to categorize them! Your students will learn characteristics about vertebrates and invertebrates.

Vertebrate or Invertebrate?

Every experiment begins with a hypothesis. In this hands-on science lesson, young botanists will learn about making educated guesses by planting and observing the growth of their very own lima bean seeds.

Seeds Seeds Seeds

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

Life-Size Maze

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

This fun art-inspired lesson will give your students a chance to dive into a study of the five senses.

Five Senses Artists

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.

Simple Machines: Wheel and Axle

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson. 

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