Teaching Themes
Spring: Everything You Need
Has spring taken over your class? Make the season a source of learning by studying that theme.
Lesson Plans
Get to the Root of It!
Grades: PreK–K
Use this lesson plan to teach about plant roots, stems, leaves, and flowers through direct observation and diagramming.
Sticky, Slimy Gross-Out Science
Grades: 3–5
Capture kids' attention, even on those hot May afternoons, with these five easy experiments.
Spring Ideas
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Spring CleaningGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 This lesson plan teaches children about the importance of working together to care for our environment. |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus in a BeehiveGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 How do the Magic School Bus kids communicate where nectar flowers are? By dancing like bees! Challenge your kids to dance the Honey-Bee-Bop to... |
 Learning Centers: Spring into ScienceGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Lesson plans and tips to help you teach children become conscious of the fragility of life by investigatingplants, animals, and insects. |
Articles, Online Learning Activities Spring Forward!Grades: 1–2, 3–5 Welcome the spring by studying seasonal changes, such as flowers blooming and animals having their young and migrating north. |
 Where Do Rainy Days Come From?Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Activities that introduce the water cycle, including a weather calendar, a manipulative model, rain cycle flap books, and charting a month of rain. |
 Lesson Plans, Book Resources Spring Is Here Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Celebrate the wonders of springtime with this story about a young girl who enjoys the sights and smells of the season. |
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Lesson Plans Send Home Activities: Making LemonadeGrades: PreK–K Teachers suggest that parents do this activity plan with their children at home on a spring day. Kids learn motor skills, and math skills like... |
 Articles, Writing Activities, Book Resources It's Alive, It's Alive!Grades: PreK–K Students study the life cycle of chickens as they hatch them from eggs. |
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Articles, Group Activities Let's put some "SPRING" into our step!Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Students celebrate spring with seasonal activities and parent participation. |
Send Home Activities: Making Wind ChimesGrades: PreK–K An activity that teachers can share with their families. |
 Articles Spring Math RiddlesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Tips from Greg Tang on making math fun with real-life, vivid examples that connect math with other subject areas. |
 Lesson Plans Fall vs. Spring Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K Science and language arts activities, from comparing and contrasting seasons to identifying the characteristics of a flower |
 Activities and Games Spring Is Sprung: Water Movement in PlantsGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Teach about water movement with this experiment in which students observe how water gets from the root of a plant to the top. |
 Dig Into Springtime ScienceGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Six easy science experiments to teach habitats, anatomy, plant growth, and much more! |
Activity Plan 5-6: Wind ChimesGrades: PreK–K Children will develop creative-thinking and fine-motor skills as they use clay to design wind chimes in this ready-to-use teaching idea for five-... |
 Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities Web Hunt: Vernal EquinoxGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Embark on an online hunt for facts about the vernal equinox with this Web Hunt. |
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Articles Idea SwapGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Teacher-tested ideas to celebrate Valentine's' Day, Presidents' Day, Black History Month, and more! |
Readers Theater Scripts In Like a Lion, Out Like a LambGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Features a play called "In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb". The play covers the theme of changing seasons (from winter to spring). |
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Articles Creepy-Crawly ScienceGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Let our eight-legged and other insect friends inspire some creepy-crawly science fun. |
