Submitted by: Sandy Gabriel - Albany, Illinois They also look really pretty with light shining through them when placed on a windowsill. These are great for the kids to manipulate into the correct sequence. Put a little glue around the rim of the jars and screw on the lids. While talking with the children about the colors of the rainbow, ROYGBIV, add a few drops of food coloring to make a jar of each of the colors. Hands-on activity for students learning about rainbows. It provides students with visual and hands-on activities. Submitted by: Michele O'Connor Grades 2-4Ī great idea for your study of habitats. Students will delve deeper into the concept of ecosystems in the exploration of the interdependence of living elements within the tropical rain forest ecosystem. Some students went on to write more books about the environment and favorite heroes. Then they share their books with the other students and we put them in the library for checkout. This takes about a week having the students work about 45 minutes a day. They name their own character and then write and illustrate their book. The students read the book together and then write their own book about an environmental hero who saves the earth from some type of pollution. This is a 20 page picture book (between 3rd and 4th grade reading level) about a dog who falls into a polluted stream and gets saved and turns into the hero "Earthdog" and goes around and saves the earth. My fourth grade class gets with a partner and they go to the website Earth Dog. This tip was published in the NEA's Weekly Tip Newsletter.Įnvironment Activity Using the Internet Grades 3-5Ĭombine two of the most important topics of today. Submitted by: Michael Szewczyk, a fourth grade teacher at Berkeley Terrace School in Irvington, New Jersey. This tip was published in the NEA's Weekly Tip Newsletter.Ī great activity to incorporate the all time favorite, 'I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly' into your classroom. Dunning School in Framingham, Massachusetts. Submitted by: Carol Berlin, a third grade teacher at Charlotte A. As an extension, the student can call out the name of the continent on which their hand lands." After every child has a turn, we tally up the results. As they catch the ball, they must report whether their hands land on earth or on water. "To give the students a sense of the proportions of the earth that are land and water, we toss a beach ball that's decorated as the globe. This is a fun activity to use during a study of the Earth. Submitted by: Lee Ann Williams - Dyersburg, TN Afterwards, the students love to eat their pieces of their Andes Mountains. To study the elevations of the mountains, you can use Andes chocolate thin mints to build the elevations or use the chocolate on a bar graph illustrating the different elevations. I teach seventh grade Geography, and we have been studying the Andes Mountains in South America.
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