Additional Lesson Plans
Here are some favorite lesson plans about nature and the outdoors from around the web.
Investigating Animals
Grades K-5
How Do Polar Bears Stay Warm?, National Wildlife Federation
Invent an Insect, California Academy of Sciences
Life in a Nest: Exploring Life Cycles with Bird Cams, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Macroinvertebrate Manor, California Academy of Sciences
Night Friends, National Wildlife Federation
A Time to Sleep (Hibernation), Scholastic
Tricky Tracks, National Wildlife Federation
Grades 6-8
Food Chains and Webs, Michigan State University
How Big is Big? Discovering Relative Sizes of Large Plants and Animals, California Academy of Sciences
How Many Bison?, National Wildlife Federation
How Stable is Your Food Web?, California Academy of Sciences
Life in a Nest: Exploring Life Cycles with Bird Cams, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Mutualism and Coral Reefs, Smithsonian Ocean Portal
Raptor Migration, California Academy of Sciences
Exploring Plants
Grades K-5
Getting to the Root of It: Plant Dissection and Root Systems, Scholastic
Flowers Seeking Pollinators, California Academy of Sciences
How Plants Grow, US Department of Agriculture
Investigating Compost, California Academy of Sciences
Living Life as a Plant, South Carolina ETV
Plant Life Cycles, PBS
Plant Parts, Brown County, WI
Plant Parts and Functions, Virginia Department of Education
Seed Sensation: Exploring and Sorting Seeds, Scholastic
Grades 6-8
Flower Anatomy, Science Friday
Flowers Seeking Pollinators, California Academy of Sciences
How Big is Big? Discovering Relative Sizes of Large Plants and Animals, California Academy of Sciences
Investigating Compost, California Academy of Sciences
Photosynthesis and Transpiration, Nelida Boreale, Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board
Photosynthesis Seen From Space, California Academy of Sciences
Stomata Printing: Microscope Investigation, California Academy of Sciences
Discovering the World Around Us
Grades K-5
Connected Ecosytems, Smithsonian Ocean Portal
Measuring Earthquakes, California Academy of Sciences
Observing Variation, California Academy of Sciences
Slippery Shores: Oil Spill Cleanup, California Academy of Sciences
What Contains Carbon?, California Academy of Sciences
Which Way is North?, California Academy of Sciences
Grades 6-8
Buoyancy Bull’s Eye, California Academy of Sciences
Discovering Rainforest Locations, California Academy of Sciences
Investigating Moon Phases, California Academy of Sciences
Observing Variation, California Academy of Sciences
Rapid Trash Assessment, California Academy of Sciences
Slippery Shores: Oil Spill Cleanup, California Academy of Sciences
