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I have changed this to a Kindergarten activity

Adaptions: you can adapt this lesson by having ELL and special need students find the flowers and sketch them for their group, then they can assist the group in identifying the habitat and descriptions. (This will help ELL students enhance their vocabulary) Extensions: You can extend this activiy by having students create a venn diagram and identify similarities and differences. Older grades can also extend the activity by researching their plants/flowers more (locations it is found, type of flower, how effecte environment...etc) and creating a poster board that they will present in the class.

Great science actiivity for 1st grade

Adaptions: you can adapt this lesson for ELL or special needs students by introducing a liquid and a solid in a more clear from (ex: using water and ice) until the concept is understood. Then, move on using the gluep. Extensions: You could also do this experiment with 4th graders before you introduce matter to gain an understanding of the three states of matter.

5th Grade Avtivity (not 4th grade)

Adaptions: You can use nonstandard units of measurement first when teaching the understanding of measurement and eventually move on using a tape measure when ready. extension: to extend this experiment to advanced students ask the student to record the same information on the Vernal Equinox (3rd week in March), Summer Solstice (3rd week in June) and the Autumnal Equinox (3rd week in September).

have to find a standard that goes with this but how much fun would this be? Kids would LOVE this activity

Could also use this activity to introduce the water cycle... This is a 5th grade Science Activity

This would be a fun activity for 6th grade Earth Science

Adaptions: for ELL and special need students explain what the items represent by also showing them a picture of the real item when explaining the materials and what they represent. Extensions: you can extend this activity to younger grades by having kindergartners and 1st graders use cookie cutters instead of straws, they may not have the fine motor skills developed yet to use the straw.

(2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6) 2nd grade science Day to day and over the seasons, observe, measure, record and recognize patterns and ask questions about features of weather

I chose this site because it had great explinations of the weather. You can create many different activities to demonste understanding of weather. One thing I would do it first teach the students the aspests of weather and the differences in lengths of daylight in difference seasons. Then , we would all together do an activity to determine the difference in Earth's titls and how it affects weather during different seasons. Extensions: you can extend this activity for younger students by creating a chart to graph the different seasons and what the weather looks like in those seasons, then you can demonstrate the earths tilt with a globe and have the students guess which season they think our state would be in depending on Earth's tilt. Adaptions: I would suggest using illustrations to explain vocabulary, they can make a vocabulary journal.

2.2.7 Investigate how the sun appears to move through the sky during the day by observing and drawing the length and direction of shadows. 2nd grade Science Activity

Adaptions: you can adapt this lesson for ELL and special needs by selecting them to be the "helper" to measure the shadow or to rotate. Extensions: you can extend this activity for younger students by showing them with a globe and "sun" how the earth rotates and gather their hypothesis of what happens to the side of Earth that the sun isn't shining on.

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. 3rd grade

Extensions: Be sure to go over vocabulary and different terms involving fossils, using illustrations to show the definition as well as the words. Extensions: There are a lot of ways you can extend this activity. For Kindergarten or 1st grade you can extend this activity by creating a center of a dinosaur dig and have the students make their own fossil as well as draw a picture of the fossil they "dug up" and writing a simple sentence about what they think their fossil is.

Adaptions: You can adapt this lesson for ELL and special need students by having the students describe their fossil and you can create a timeline of the board and have the ELL and special needs students draw a picture of their fossil and place it on the timeline of when they think it lived.