Teaching About Ocean Waves | Water Activities for Kids
How can you teach ocean waves to your third, fourth, or fifth grade students? First, view some videos. Second, study some diagrams. Third, conduct a STEM activity. In it, kids…
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Teaching the Water Cycle – Evaporation, Precipitation, Condensation
Teaching the water cycle is easy. Just use a solid learning cycle – instruction and inquiry, practice, and assessment. Your students will love the baggie project. You’ll love their mastery…
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Teaching Properties of Water | Fun Science Activities for Kids
Properties of water are fun to teach. A few simple activities can drive home important science concepts like evaporation, cohesion, adhesion, water as a solvent, and capillary action. Read on…
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Hydrosphere Teaching Ideas | Water Activities for Kids
Introduce the hydrosphere with three types of interdisciplinary activities. First, ask kids to read about the hydrosphere and answer questions. Second, have them create pie graphs to show how water…
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Teaching Slow Changes to Earth’s Surface | Geology Activities for Kids
Teach slow changes to Earth’s surface – weathering, erosion, and deposition – with hands-on science experiments. With just a few simple materials, your students will experience these changes firsthand. (more…)
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Teaching Fairy Tales Activities for Kids | An ELA Unit
Fairy tales provide the perfect theme for a complete ELA unit. Sure, you can read and compare them. But you can also pull in informational text, figurative language, poetry, and…
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Mythology Lesson Plans – ELA Activities for Middle School Kids
Looking for a complete set of mythology lesson plans? Try this free set to round out your current unit. As kids read The Lightning Thief, they learn about characters, point of…
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Teaching The Lightning Thief – Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan motivates kids to read. What’s more? You can teach mythology, summarizing, inferences, and vocabulary. Check it out! (more…)
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Teaching Mythology Writing Activities – Argumentative Essays for Kids
What are some fun mythology writing activities? Surprisingly, argumentative texts fit perfectly. Just ask kids to argue which god should be invited to dinner. Or persuade others to vote for…
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Teaching Mythology Characters: Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Creatures
Characters from Greek mythology are so much fun to teach. After all, kids love the larger-than-life personalities. Try this easy project. First, assign one god, goddess, hero, or creature to…
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