Download NEW K-6 hands-on science activities
Access the latest FREE hands-on science activities for grades K-6 with corresponding tools and how-to videos to inspire your students. Get started today!
Free resources that bring the farm to your classroom
Introduce your students to the Farm-to-Table journey with free lesson plans and videos from the Good Egg Project’s Education Station.
Care for the green spaces in your neighborhood
Utilize free lesson plans, activity guides and videos for fun, hands-on ways to improve your local environment.
Summer family fun from Science of Everyday Life
In the backyard, by the grill, on a family road trip - science will be all around your students this summer. Continue the learning with free family resources for students of all ages.
Summer is short. Travel adventurously.
Teachers are making the world their classroom this summer, heading to places like Costa Rica or Yellowstone, Australia or France.
Stay Sharp this Summer with Free Resources
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Get Out on the Water, Together!
Access our free family activities for great ways to experience our waterways and explore all that nature has to offer, together this summer!
Fit 4 the Classroom
New elementary STEM lessons and videos to help students adopt a fit lifestyle.
Uncovering Fossils
Q: Where can the world’s oldest hominid fossils be found?
A: 3.5 million-year-old fossils can be found in South Africa. Uncover history with Discovery Student Adventures.
reasoning
DOGGIES
The dog named Jam is heavier than the dog named Jelly.
Copper weighs more than Brandy but less than Pumpkin.
Brandy weighs more than Jelly.
Pumpkin weighs less than Jam.
List the dogs in the order of their weights, starting with the heaviest.
vocabulary matching
ANIMAL CLASSES
Capture your students' attention and get them ready to learn with these worksheets. Try this vocabulary matching worksheet on the subject of animal classes with words such as "reptile", "extinction" and "queen". Have your students match the word to the definition.
Weather Maps
Students will:
- Understand basic information about weather
- Learn about different types of weather maps
- Create and present national weather maps showing different conditions
Technology at Work
Students will:
- Technology is defined as “any invention, including tools, machines, materials, techniques, and sources of power, that makes people’s work easier.”
- The history of technology really begins in prehistoric times.
Create Your Own Native American Board Game
Students will:
- discuss how games reflect a culture’s beliefs, priorities, and aspects of everyday life;
- learn about a few games and toys of Native American children; and
- analyze basic elements of a selected Native American tribe in order to apply them to the creation of an original board game that can be played by today’s children.
Math in Everyday Life
Students will:
- Discuss how to solve word problems involving time and money
- Work as a class to solve word problems focusing on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions
- Work with a partner to make up their own word problems
Reading Strategies
Students will:
- Learn that every story has a main idea and supporting details.
- Find the main idea and several supporting details in a news story.
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Click HereFarm-to-Table Free Resources Introduce your students to the farm-to-table journey with free lesson plans and videos.
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Click HereExplore the Blue Find free lesson plans and activities that will help bring awareness to boating, fishing and conservation.
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Click HereSiemens Science Day Engage and amaze your K-6 students with new hands-on activities!
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