Teaching Fossil Fuels for Kids: Renewable or Nonrenewable?
Make your study of fossil fuels interesting! Your students will love designing eco-friendly vehicles. (more…)
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Teaching Fast and Slow Changes to Earth’s Surface Fourth Grade
Fast and slow changes posters help kids understand changes to Earth’s surface. To improve conceptualization, add hands-on earth science activities. (more…)
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Teaching How to Reduce Impacts of Natural Disasters with STEM
Reducing impacts of natural disasters make great STEM challenges! Use these activities to reinforce the engineering design process (NGSS 3-5-ETS 1-1, 3-5-ETS1-2, 3-5-ETS1-3). Simultaneously, teach about fast changes to Earth’s…
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Mapping Volcanoes | Teaching About Fast Changes
Mapping volcanoes is a great way to teach kids about fast changes to Earth’s surface. First, help your students understand latitude and longitude. Second, ask them to plot the coordinates…
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Fourth Grade Earth Science Lesson Plans with Hands-on Projects
Use a variety of earth science projects to teach slow and fast changes. This set of lesson plans engages fourth graders – and matches the standards! Ms. Sneed Plans Fourth…
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Enjoy Teaching Fossil Layers and Evidence for Kids
Teaching fossil layers requires a step-by-step approach. First, kids must understand how rock layers form. Second, they learn about evidence and records left behind. Hands-on earth science labs allow them…
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Teaching About Great Lakes Water | Hydrology for Kids
Great Lakes water provides lots of teachable moments. Start with the hydrosphere. Then move on to the evaporation and the water cycle. In addition, kids can learn about nutrient pollution.…
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Teaching Great Lakes Geology and Glaciers for Kids
Great Lakes geology begins with glaciers. They created the landscape of the region. First, teach kids about eras. Then let them explore the geologic timescale. After that, they’ll be ready…
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Teach Great Lakes Facts with a Collaborative Research Project
How can you teach Great Lakes facts? Try a short, collaborative research project. First, put kids in groups of five. Second, ask each student to investigate one lake. Third, combine…
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Great Lakes Geography Activities for Kids in the Midwest Region
Teach Great Lakes geography with maps of the region. Kids will label the lakes, as well as surrounding states, provinces, and cities. They’ll learn to spell them too! (more…)
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