10 Lesson Plans

1. How Animals Camouflage Themselves-
 http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/lessonplans/animals/camouflage.html- This lesson describes how animals are camouflaged. The lesson begins by describing how animals blend into their environment by the color or the pattern on the animal. The lesson has children look at pictures of animals that are camouflaged then they have children make a cutout of cardboard of an animal and color it with the marking so the animal is camouflaged into the color of the room. This is a good lesson for children because it allows them to take the concept of camouflage and apply it into creating their own animal that is camouflaged to their environment.

2.  Create a Tornado-
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/makeatornado.html-  This lessons allows children to create a tornado in  bottle. The students will mix together water, glitter, and dish washing liquid into a clear plastic bottle with a cap. Then the teacher is to have children turn the plastic bottle upside down and quickly spin the bottle in a circular motion. Students will see a mini tornado forming in the water. This is a good lesson because it allows children to see how to create vortexes on their own and they can learn how vortexes can be found in nature including tornadoes and hurricanes. 

3. The Harms of Pollution-
 http://www.lessonplanspage.com/aquatic-wildlife-and-pollution/- This lesson is about pollution that harms aquatic life. The lesson has the teacher have about fifteen photographs of several types of wildlife. Then the teacher will allow the students to work as a group of approximately four to five students. The teacher will have the students classify the pictures in any way that they can. Then, as a whole group then the whole class will look at how the students sorted the pictures and what pictures lie in each group. Then the teacher will have each group explain how they chose to classify the pictures. The teacher will also discuss what a good environment would be for these animals and what would be harmful. This is a good lesson because it is a hands on activity where children have the opportunity to work with other students and decide a type of environment animals need to live in to survive.

4. Parts of a Spider-
 http://www.lessonplanspage.com/sciencepartsofaspiderappearancehabitat1-htm/- This lesson teaches students about the parts of a spider. The teacher will begin by making a chart of the students prior knowledge about spiders. Then the students will be given photographs of spiders.  The student will have to organize and sort the photographs into classifications of their choice. As the students finish they will discuss the reasons students classified the spiders the way that they did. The students will look at their classification of the spiders and look what is similar or what is different. After students learn the basic structure of a spider the teacher will have the students make their own spider. This lesson is a good lesson because it teaches the students about the different parts of the spiders and the teacher can see if the student understands the different parts of the spider by how they constructed their own spider.

5. Life Cycle of a Butterfly-
 http://megan-sheakoski.suite101.com/butterfly-life-cycle-elementary-science-lesson-a100585- This lesson teaches students how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly by watching them grow in a butterfly garden in the classroom. After the caterpillars have gone through the four stages of the life cycle and emerged from the chrysalis as butterflies the students release them outdoors. At the beginning of the lesson the teacher has the whole class create a KWL chart of what they know and what they want to learn about of the life cycle of a butterfly. At the end of the lesson the teacher will get the chart back out and write what they have learned about the life cycle of the butterfly. This lesson is a good lesson because it is a hands on activity where students can observe the different life cycles of a butterfly.

6. Importance of Honeybees-
 http://www.ent.iastate.edu/zoo/lessonplans/honeybee.html-  In this lesson student will learn to identify the three types of honeybees and their responsibilities inside the hive. Students will also learn about how important honeybees are to humans and students will learn how honeybees communicate. In this activity students can role play the three different types of honeybees and their responsibilities by giving the student prompts to help them act out their responsibilities. This lesson is a good lesson for young children because they have the opportunity to get up and move around by acting out the responsibilities of the different types of honeybees. This will be a learning opportunity for children because they are interacting with their classmates by describing the responsibilities of each  type of honeybee.

7. Reflection of the Sun-
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=2359- This lesson teaches students that when they see the moon at night shine brightly in the sky it is actually us seeing the reflection of the sun's light on the moon. This lesson explains that the moon gets its light from the sun, just like we do on earth. In this lesson the teacher is to use an orange as a model of the moon to explain where the moon gets its light and use a flashlight as a model of the sun. The students are to write in a science journal about where the moon gets the source of light. Then each group is to cover their orange with foil. They can make the foil bumpy and with craters to look like the surface of the moon. Then they are to place it in the middle of a desk and the teacher will turn off lights. Students are then to turn on their flashlights and shine it on the orange that is to represent the moon. This is a good lesson because it has student use a model to represent how we see the reflection of the sun's light on the moon.

8. The Importance of The Water Cycle-
http://www.math.montana.edu/~nmp/materials/ess/hydrosphere/novice/water-cycle.html-
This lesson teaches children about the water cycle and how water is essential for all plants and animals to survive. The primary focus of this unit is to create an awareness of water, its uses, and to develop an understanding of its impact on life. After the students learn about the water cycle, the teacher is to ask students to think of as many places that water might be able to go when it falls to the earth. After they form a list, the teacher should try to group these ideas into different categories such as oceans, soil, lakes, and plants. Students are then to form small groups to create a poster that illustrates the water cycle of where the water might fall into on earth. This is a good lesson because students can work as a team to show their understanding of the water cycle by creating a poster of the cycle.

9. The Four Seasons-
http://web.wm.edu/act2online/Lesson_Plans/firstlp.htm#science- In this lesson students will identify all four seasons. In the lesson students will have to determine the clothing and activities the students can do during each season. They will also learn what happens to plants and animals during the four seasons by using a felt/flannel board with corresponding season pieces. Students will have to add the animals, clothing, and recreational activity for the proper season. This lesson is a good lesson because it allows students to think on their own and identify the different seasons and what the weather is like for each season. This lesson allows the teacher to assess the students knowledge of  the different seasons to see if they understand what happens in each season.

10. Earthworms-
http://www.teachpreschoolscience.com/EarthwormObservation.html- The lesson has students go out and find earthworms when it is the best time in a warm place to find them. The lesson teaches students the best place to look for earthworms is under a pot, rocks, or bricks after it rains. The students are to bring magnifying glasses and pencils with clipboards to draw the earthworm.The lesson also has children observe a couple worms by observing their body and how they move. The lesson  has the students create a habitat in an aquarium where the earthworms would like to live. The lesson has children add rich dark soil, plant matter, water, and the worms. This lesson is a good lesson because it gives children the opportunity to do a hands on experiment with observing on their own the different movements and behaviors of an earthworm.