This lab is used to show children the benefits of exercise through active participation. Teacher makes charts labeled with the names of various fruits and vegetables in each square. Students glue real seeds for those fruits and vegetables in the correct squares. Students learn how dinosaurs are named, participate in a group fossil dig, and create an image of a dinosaur. Students melt old crayon stubs and mold them into interesting shapes and characters.
Students learn about camouflage as they study polar bears and their habitat.
The purpose of this lesson is to have the students gain an understanding of maps. The students learn the components of a map, particularly the legend, the key, the symbols and the area. The students develop their own map of a garden they will be planting in an upcoming science lesson. The students have background knowledge in mapping from exposure to maps in previous lessons. Students match pictures of Egyptian culture with their descriptions then create Egyptian resource posters.