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PreK & K Lessons

  • Play with Me
  • May the Force Be With You: Pushes & Pulls
  • Peter Rabbit
  • Studying Rocks with the Five Senses
  • The Little Red Hen
  • The Sunflower House
  • Birds & Eggs
  • Pancakes, Pancakes

1st Grade Lessons

  • NEW! Sound & Magnets
  • May the Force Be With You: Pushes & Pulls
  • Peter Rabbit
  • Studying Rocks with the Five Senses
  • Pancakes, Pancakes
  • The Little Red Hen
  • The Sunflower House
  • Birds & Eggs
  • Creature Features
  • Plant Parts Salad
  • Beetles, Butterflies & Bees, Oh My!

2nd Grade Lessons

  • The Little Red Hen
  • The Sunflower House
  • Birds & Eggs
  • Pancakes, Pancakes
  • Matter Up, Down & All Around
  • Meta-, Meta-, Metamorphosis
  • Forces & Motion
  • Flower Power: The Reason for a Flower
  • Papa, Will You Get the Moon For Me?

3rd Grade Lessons

  • Hot! Hot! Hot! - Heat Energy
  • Rocks & Minerals
  • The Salamander Room
  • Sun to Soil
  • Producers, Consumers & Decomposers: Food Chain & Ecosystem
  • Sugar is From Plants? Photosynthesis

4th Grade Lessons

  • NEW! Constellations & the Solar System
  • Sun to Soil
  • Producers, Consumers & Decomposers: Food Chain & Ecosystem
  • Who Are You & What Did You Eat? Food Chains
  • Who is This Beaver? Adaptations
  • The Eyes Have It: Light & Lenses
 

who is this beaver? adaptations

Children discover how animals are adapted to survive by learning about beaver adaptations as a child is “changed” into a beaver one adaptation at a time. Students will also see real and model skulls of animals to learn about teeth and eye adaptations, see real insects to learn about warning colors and more!

Materials Fee: $1.50 per student

Grade 4

Length: ~90 minutes

Satisfies these GA Performance Standards for Science:  

Fourth Grade: Characteristics of Science: Habits of Mind-S4CS1-a, b, The Nature of Science-S4CS8-a, b, c; Content; Life Science-S4L1-a, b, c, d; S4L2-a   Fifth Grade: Meets Cobb County standards: S.5.6.2 Animals: Adaptations/Compare; S.5.6.3 Animals: Adaptations / Habitat

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