This activity is designed to be used with the Feature Story, A Whale of an Ocean, and students in grades 4-5. After reading the text, students work in pairs to match questions and answers posted around the classroom. The PDF document includes questions and answers, directions, and an answer key.

Students will help make a Five Senses and Four Seasons quilt and cinquain poem.

Balls of varying weights are used to discover the results of force applied to an object.

This informational text discusses the unique property of ice - that it floats in liquid water. The text is written at a grade two through three This version is a full-color PDF that can be printed, cut and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.

This informational text discusses the unique property of ice - that it floats in liquid water. Students focus on real-world examples and how ice is necessary for life in the polar regions. The text is written at a grade two through grade three reading level. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary.

This informational text discusses the unique property of ice - that it floats in liquid water. Students focus on real-world examples and how ice is necessary for life in the polar regions. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level. This version is a full-color PDF that can be printed, cut and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.

This informational text discusses the unique property of ice - that it floats in liquid water. Students focus on real-world examples and how ice is necessary for life in the polar regions. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary.

The teacher puts pieces of potatoes in water and salt water. The students predict what is going to happen and try to name what makes this happen.

This lesson plan is intended to encourage learners to integrate the visual arts with science and appreciate nature. Students will create a round or square stepping stone using colored glass pieces with a mortar and sand mixture.

Explore the forces at work when you try to push a filing cabinet. Create an applied force and see the resulting friction force and total force acting on the cabinet. Charts show the forces, position, velocity, and acceleration vs. time. View a Free Body Diagram of all the forces (including gravitational and normal forces).

Students will use their knowledge about fossils to arrange fossil pictures in sequence from oldest to youngest.

Learn how to make waves of all different shapes by adding up sines or cosines. Make waves in space and time and measure their wavelengths and periods. See how changing the amplitudes of different harmonics changes the waves. Compare different mathematical expressions for your waves.

Our planet is constantly changing; explore how it has changed over the last 30 years using Google Earth's timelapse feature.

A teacher friendly research document that explains the three dimensions of science including science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas. Each dimension is explained in depth within its own chapter. The disciplinary core ideas are grouped into major disciplines (i.e., Physical Sciences; Life Sciences; Earth and Space Sciences; Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science). Each discipline is explained in a separate chapter. The report also describes developmentally appropriate learning progressions.

Students will illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly and compare a butterfly's life cycle to that of a different insect or animal.

This month join us for a great Make-And-Take Marvel with co-leader Kelli Cannon. We will also share our monthly newsletter and some Googley updates.

We will have a brief sharing session and then what we are calling Make-and-Take Marvels, pre-made lessons that you can take to your classrooms tomorrow with all the materials ready to go. This month, co-leader Matthew Winters will walk us through a lesson he calls "In The Room," a miniature digital/physical diorama project using Google Slides.

Learn more about Utah's GEGUtah program and join in on the fun! We are so excited about our upcoming GEGUtah/Utah Nearpod Community combined meetup! Come join both communities to share what is new with Google and Nearpod.

Join us on May 4th for our May GEGUtah Meetup! We will have a few guest speakers from Derivita to discuss their amazing integration with Google Classroom. Then Ian Davey will walk us through a Design Sprint to spark us for Summer break!