In Search of Gems: Science Activities for Grades 1-3

Dear Creative Classroom Teachers
of Grades 1-3,

Please click on one of the book search website below, then type in keywords for an upcoming science lesson or unit. Email me the title of a book that looks interesting for an upcoming book list.

Children’s Picture Book Database
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/

Database of Award Winning Children’s Literature
http://www.dawcl.com/search.asp

Enter a keyword and see what comes up. (Be careful entering keywords in the first database, as you are limited to 10 characters!) Please remember to email me at least one book title from your search .

SCIENCE

Grade 1

SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY:
Nature Spies
http://www.eduplace.com/activity/1_3_act1.html
Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
http://www.ghbooks.com/activity/activity.cfm?bookid=10005&page=53
Why is the Sea Salty?
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/cecsci/cecsci166.html
Making Observations and Generating Hypotheses and Expectations Using Our Senses
http://gk12calbio.berkeley.edu/lessons/less_makingobs.html
LIFE SCIENCE:
Animals
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Science//Animals/ANM0005.html
Animals Unit Plan
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsci/gr1uaesc.html
Everybody Needs a Home
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0111.htm
On the Farm or At the Zoo?
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/barn/zoo.html
What Are You Doing Here?
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/guests/whatdo.html
Who Lives Here?
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/play/lives.html
How Do Seeds Grow?
http://www.kidzone.ws/science/seeds.htm
Inside a Seed
http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/InsideSeed.shtml
Plant Growth Unit Plan
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsci/gr2ucesc.html
Plant Systems Unit Plan
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/cecsci/cecsci114.html
From Seed to Plant
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Agriculture/AGR0010.html
Sprouting Scientist
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=14398
Going on a Living and Non-living Hunt
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=10989
Plants and Light
http://www.pearsonpublishing.co.uk/education/samples/S_493265.pdf
MATERIALS:
Sorting and using materials
http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/hycs/materials.pdf
See page 12 of the following website for common material lesson
http://www.creative-partnerships.com/projects/17537/51605/51611
PHYSICAL PROCESSES:
http://www.pearsonpublishing.co.uk/education/samples/S_493265.pdf

Grade 2

SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY:
I am a Scientist
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=21443
Scroll down to Pop! Pop! Pop! Seeds
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/Science.html
Pretzel Predictions
http://www.mcrel.org/whelmers/whelm46.asp
LIFE SCIENCE:
Animal Family Album
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=39
Animal Diversity/Where can Animals Live
http://www.sciencenetlinks.org/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=395
A Plant Begins (click on title)
http://www.aimsedu.org/Activities/primary.html
Sprouting Scientist
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=14398
MATERIALS:
Grouping and Changing Materials
http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/hycs/materials.pdf
Common Materials and Their Properties - Making Puppets see page 12
http://www.creative-partnerships.com/projects/17537/51605/51611
PHYSICAL PROCESSES:
Effects of Forces/To Squash or Not to Squash
http://www.pearsonpublishing.co.uk/education/samples/S_493265.pdf

Grade 3

SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY:
Scroll down to Pop! Pop! Pop! Seeds
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/Science.html
The Egg Activity
http://gk12calbio.berkeley.edu/lessons/less_egg.html
LIFE SCIENCE:
Animal Family Album
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=39
Magic School Bus: Habitat
http://scholastic.com/magicsc
hoolbus/games/teacher/frogs/index.htm
Healthy Eating
http://www.sciencenetlinks.org/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=6&DocID=486
Micro-organisms
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/mold.html
MATERIALS:
Hammer Time
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=18904
It's a Weighty Matter
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=11031
Materials and Their Properties p.6
http://www.creative-partnerships.com/projects/17537/51605/51611
PHYSICAL PROCESSES:
It’s All Done with Mirrors:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/periscope.html
Focussing Light with a Lens
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/pringles_pinhole.html
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/pictures_from_light.html
Mirror Mania
http://www.saasta.ac.za/easyscience/pdfs/es_2005_04.pdf
Strength of the Push or Pull?
http://www.mcrel.org/whelmers/whelm22.asp