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ELL and special ed students can be paired with another student to help create a journal of observations with pictures and words dealing with the states of matter. This activity can be used for older grades too. The students could find the densities of the solids and liquids. They could even go so far as to cook a breakfast and discuss liquids to solids as they are cooked.

Kindergarten activity for Life Science...you can also chart the growth of the plants while going over plant parts

Adaptions: be sure to go over vocabulary. Also, you can chart and draw picture step by step of how the students are to put together their "greenhouses" Extensions: You can extend this to higher grades by discussing the water cycle and demonstrating how the water cycle created moisture in the greenhouses in order to water the seeds. Also, if possible you can plan a fiend trip to a greenhouse, (a lot of times these are FREE and they will do demonstrations and age appropriate activities with the students!)

This activity can be used for older grade levels by having students first try the experiment and then having them find answers as to why different substances cause different tastes. This activity could also be connected to math by graphing the results of what student liked what taste the best or the worst.

A lot of ways you could adapt this for ELL learners or Special needs 1st grade

Adaptions: You can adapt this activity for ELL and special needs by doing an into to the bufferfly lifecycle, you can include books, do drawings charting the life cycle. While you are doing this you can have the students make a vocabulary journal identifying vocabulary used in the butterfly life cycle. Extensions: I think ALL grades would love this activity, you would want to add things to the activity depending on the grade level. For example, for 2nd graders you can have them journal and write stories about their butterflies, 3rd grade you can have them define different types of butterfies and then see which type they have from their habitats, 4th graders can identify different locations you may find different types of butterflies, and for kindergarten you can identify differences between butterflies and moths....etc!

This project can have an art component by allowing the students time to draw what the crystals look like. Students can also write or draw a hypothesis about what they will see before the growth begins. Students in older grades can do this experiment and then investigate how the crystals were formed through research and class discussion.

This activity could also be connected to health class when learning about the systems of the body. Students could also create other objects that resemble body parts and their functions. This activity can be connected to langauge arts by having students research and write about the function of the vertebral column.

Ask children to brainstorm other ways that would make the ice melt faster or slower. Then show them what happens when salt is put on the ice. Make the connection to the salt trucks on the roads in winter.

To connect this activity to writing, have children make up stories that go along with the fossils they create. They can write as if they found the fossil or write about the place and time the fossil is from.

Fossils are also an Earth Science topic. See standard 3.2.4 for example.

This activity can be tied to social studies by having students create an essay, PowerPoint, or poster on how landslides have and do affect the world's population. This can be done in groups of students (with all ability levels).

Have students work in pairs or small groups to experiment what happens to the ball if you spin it faster or slower, make bigger circles, or what else they can spin in the jar. Have them make predictions, then record their findings.

I have changed this to a 3rd grade activity. 3.2.4 Identify fossils and describe how they provide evidence about the plants and animals that lived long ago and the nature of their environment at that time.

Adaptions: you can adapt this lesson by having ELL and special need students explore in the dirt and sketch what they find in each layer and what layer they found it in making it into a "Dirt Journal" They will learn a lot just by exploring in the dirt and talking wtih friends about what they find. Extensions: You can extend this activity to older students by creating "dig sites" for each student to dig and identify the different layers. They can futher research types of rocks they find and identify what type of rock it is.