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If you’re looking for a fun project-based learning unit, these dinosaur activities for elementary students are just what you need. A dinosaur day can grab the attention of your students like none other! Take a look at how you can get your students excited about learning with these activities about dinosaurs. Building Background When you’re first beginning your unit, it’s… Read More
Insects are always a fun theme in spring, so this week we learned all about insect life cycles and butterflies. Day 1 We started out on the first day with general lesson on insects. We learned the difference between a bug and an insect. We watched a short video on YouTube to begin our lesson called All About Insects Next,… Read More
Learning about oviparous animals is a fun topic for young children. They love learning about animals that hatch from eggs and of course, this gives us a chance to think about that age old question – What came first…the chicken or the egg? What are oviparous animals? I like to begin most lessons with a read aloud so we… Read More
Here’s a peek at what we’ve been working on this week….I love this time of the year to delve into my sciences standards. I think fall really lends itself to woodland creatures, habitats, how they prepare for winter and hibernation. This week we did a little mini unit on these animals and focused on those pesky little critters, chipmunks! 🐿… Read More
Stellaluna bat activities are perfect during the fall and around Halloween! These bat lesson plans include anchor charts, a bat cave, story map and more! Last week we read the book Stellaluna and some non fiction books about Bats on Epic Books (it’s like Netflix for books…..and its FREE for teachers!!) We did a little mini unit on Bats and their habitats.This fits in… Read More
Learning about animal habitats in first grade is always a fun and exciting activity. Students love learning about different animals and this lesson makes it even more engaging when they get to build their own habitat! For this lesson, I told my students they would be choosing an animal to research and write about. We’ve been working on… Read More
