As winter thaws, spring blossoms with new ways to explore the natural wonders outside the classroom. From new floral growth and new fauna births to investigating the building blocks of the natural and physical world around us, spring is a wonderful time to bring the topics of science to life for young learners.
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Once the weather warms, it’s a great time to venture out of the classroom and explore the great outdoors with your first grade class.
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If you’re feeling especially creative, you can always create your own Nature Bingo cards with local rarities and finds!
A fresh update on the decades-old egg-carrying activity goes beyond teaching students about empathy, compassion, and the messiness of a broken egg—but teaches them about resourcefulness, recycling, and how animals care for their young in nature.
First, introduce recycling and reuse in the classroom—this Reducing Our Impact on Earth lesson plan can help get you started. Then, using this nest-assembling lesson plan, invite your first graders to build a nest for an egg using all recycled materials. They can be from nature, the recycling bin, or a new way to reuse an old item.
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You might also take advantage of spring’s good weather with outdoor math activities, like creating a giant outdoor chalk clock or bowling with numbers.
Teach your first graders to connect with nature and give back to the earth with fun Earth Day science activities for spring.
The Sode Bottle Compost activity is a fun hands-on science activity that can keep students entertained for weeks. Incorporate compost journals or use the compost bottles to inspire conversations in the classroom about decomposition and the natural cycles of regeneration on Earth.
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What better way to engage students in a lifelong curiosity in science than connecting lessons to current events? By following the latest astronomical events, you can time classroom lesson plans to correspond with space events like meteor showers, visible planets, or eclipses.
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Now that it’s warm enough to go outside, it’s time to take in the local engineering sights of bridges, buildings, and structures. Spring science projects aren’t just for life and earth sciences, it’s a great time to practice design, building, and construction.
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Some science projects are just too big for the classroom, and springtime is an excellent time to venture outdoors for some larger-than-life science experiments.
Take the Soda Explosion science project, for example. With some Diet Coke, Mentos, and construction paper, you’ll have a memorable outdoor science project to highlight chemical reactions, pressure, and the force of carbon dioxide.
Or, utilize the power of the sun for fun science craft projects like making sun prints.
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