A 2nd-grade lesson exploring animal uniqueness through the lens of zebra stripes and human fingerprints, featuring a creative art activity and video-based discussion.
In this fifth and final lesson of the Spine Squad unit, students explore fish, focusing on gills, fins, scales, and underwater survival, with a final cumulative review of the five vertebrate groups.
In this fourth lesson of the Spine Squad unit, students study amphibians, understanding how they live on water and land, lay soft eggs, and have smooth, wet skin, with scaffolded reading and tracing.
In this third lesson of the Spine Squad unit, students identify reptiles, exploring characteristics such as scales, cold-blooded regulation, and laying leathery eggs on land, supported by guided tracing.
In this second lesson of the Spine Squad unit, students examine the key characteristics of birds, including feathers, wings, and laying hard-shelled eggs, using scaffolded comprehension prompts and tracing.
In this first lesson of the Spine Squad unit, students explore the unique traits of mammals, focusing on fur/hair, live birth, and milk production with heavy visual support and tracing activities.
A hands-on science lesson designed for second-grade students to explore seed dispersal methods. Students learn about wind, water, animals, gravity, and propulsion through visual modeling, discussion, and a structured field journal.
An interactive, visually rich lesson preparing Florida students for severe storms and hurricanes. Covers emergency kit building, weather alerts, home action plans, and sensory coping strategies to reduce storm anxiety.
An interactive, visual-heavy lesson where students investigate ecosystem roles (producers, consumers, and decomposers) through an engaging 'Guess Who' style game. Includes visual-support clue cards, a detective tracking sheet, and a comprehensive teacher guide.
A lesson on oceanography covering shorelines, coastal features, and the deep seafloor, adapted with a friendly My Little Pony decorative theme and chunked, accessible text for Standard Modified Special Education students.
A foundational biology lesson exploring the simple life cycle of a plant from seed to sprout to adult. Includes interactive slides, a comprehensive teacher guide, and three tiers of differentiated worksheets to support early writers, matchers, and independent sentence-builders.
Join Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash as they explore the origin, composition, and structure of Earth's oceans. This lesson is highly visual, simplified, and carefully structured with guided practice, word banks, and sentence starters.
A highly differentiated 30-minute lesson where students act as 'Placement Officers' for the Pup Placement Agency. They analyze physical and behavioral traits of dog candidates and match them with appropriate service dog jobs, aligning with the OpenSciEd Grade 3 Trait Variation unit.
An engaging, kid-friendly lesson introducing 2nd graders to the wonders of electricity, exploring its discovery, how it works through simple circuits, and how it is generated safely.
A lesson focusing on ecosystem vocabulary including producers, consumers, and energy flow through food chains and pyramids. Includes tiered materials for elementary and middle school levels.
An enriching alternative to the Unit 2 opinion writing piece. Students act as conservation agents, creating a Public Service Announcement (PSA) to advocate for the protection of an endangered pollinator.
Focuses on the transformation and physical characteristics of butterflies based on the text 'A Butterfly Is Patient.' Students explore the life cycle stages and start to connect these stages to the butterfly's role as a pollinator.