Your students will love making rain sticks. This can be used as a simple spring craft or it can supplement a social studies lesson about native South American culture. Appropriate for Grades: 2nd – 12th Rain Stick Craft Materials: paper towel roll toothpicks beans, rice, gravel or small pebbles paint (any colors) paint brushes 2 rubber-bands for each rain stick newspaper or recycled paper paper [...]

This spring craft is quick, easy and useful. Your students will enjoy using recycled materials to create their own Spring Bunny Pencil Holders. Materials: glass jar, tin can or plastic container (yogurt or sour cream) glue wiggly eyes (2 per student) pom poms (2 per student for the nose and tail) brown paper bag wikki stix or chenille stems/pipe cleaners feathers pen pencils glitter (optional) paint brush [...]

Your students will love creating their own egg carton gardens. This easy and fun project is a great way to introduce the plant life cycle. After the seedlings sprout, send the sprouting gardens home or plant your own classroom garden outside! Types of Gardens 1. Herb Garden – basil, chives, mint, parsley, rosemary and sage. Explain how herbs are used to season food. [...]

Spring is full of nature’s cycles, which makes it an ideal time of year to study them with your students. Here’s a variety of lesson plans to help, including reading and writing activities as well as science experiments focused on the water cycle and life cycles!

Here’s a free, printable Water Cycle (black and white or color) and Water Cycle science experiment worksheet. Prior Knowledge Assessment: Students are not allowed to use a dictionary, poster or science book for the prior knowledge assessment. When introducing the term, Water Cycle, ask the students to draw a diagram and define every part of the water cycle on [...]

Your students will love playing this Frog Life Cycle Game. You can either let the students bring home their game or laminate the pieces and keep it for classroom use. This game is intended for four players, but can be played solo or with more players.  Students will need to be divided into small groups of 4 or [...]

Spring poetry is a fun way to acknowledge the transition of the seasons and to connect reading and writing through studying the form and language of poetry. Spring poems are included in this post, as well as suggestions for helping your students create their own.

The sun shines on more of a consistent basis, the air is warming up, rain falls so that plants can grow – it’s Spring! Time to kill grow plants. School and Community Gardens are all the rage, but what if, like me, you have a “black” thumb instead of a “green” one? Or what if [...]

In honor of the Spring growth I’m starting to see, here’s an easy science lesson that helps kids discover how organic material helps plants grow. The particular fertilizer used in this elementary science experiment is hundreds of years old, and comes from Squanto, the Native American who helped the Pilgrims. Squanto made it possible for the [...]

Eggs are a symbol of the Spring season, and their convenient cartons make for some fun math activities in the classroom! Get Donations Before you can get started, you’re going to need quite a few of these egg cartons. Put out a call to parents asking for donations – they should be easy to get since most people [...]