This is a writing unit on animal adaptations. Students will need to be expert researchers and will be able to dip their toes into the wonderful world of EBSCO! They will research the animal assigned to them using various graphic organizers and research questions to help guide their thinking. Once research is complete, they will fill out the OREO graphic organizer with an introduction, 3 facts with details, and a conclusion. At that point, students will publish their work.  Cover Image: Canva AI Generated 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Global Issues in Context, Gale's InfoTrac Newstand, and Gale's Science in Context to help students learn about acid rain and how humans can make better choices about our global environments. 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale in Context Elementary - to help students learn about the characteristics of rocks.

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits - to help students learn about classifying spiders. 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits and Student Resource Center - Junior - to help students learn about clouds.

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Research in Context 6-8 to help students learn about the moon. 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale’s Science in Context  - to help students learn about earthquakes. 

This lesson plan explains earth's four spheres to students. Students will answer questions in a whole class discussion about the spheres and will show they have mastered the concept by drawing pictures and explaining how the earth's spheres can interact with each other.  This would be recommended as the first lesson in teaching Interactions with Earths Systems.  Credit for Photo: "Earth Day 2008" by Ashish Lohorung is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. 

 This is a two day lesson plan to introduce first graders to concepts of light. It includes sources of light, how light helps us to see things in the world around us, darkness is the absence of light, and how light interacts with different mediums.These lesson are meant to teach the concepts of light in fun, interactive ways.  Students will learn through exploration, peer collaboration, reading, critical thinking, fun videos and creativity.  Students will have opportunities for personalized learning through making choices about how they will learn the concepts as well as receive individual support from peers and the teacher.Preview Image by Lori Eastin

This is a lesson for lower elementary age students, with the intent that it be taught to third graders.  It is a lesson which reviews weather vocabulary, weather related effects, and activities for students to develop a model of how to reduce the effects of extreme weather events. Image Created by:  Keri VancePhoto Taken by:  Keri Vance Metadata:  weather, extreme weather, model solution, UTSEEd.3.1.3; created by Keri Vance

Lesson for kindergarten SEEd strand 3.1Standard K.3.1Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize forces as a push and pull on an object. Image source:Created by Laura Anderl through https://www.bitmoji.com 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits and eMedia - to help students learn about fossils and quiet places. 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits and eMedia - to help students learn about gravity.

This is a 4-day lesson plan designed to teach 2nd-grade students how seeds are dispersed.  

Photo by Jaymantri from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/blue-and-gray-moon-during-nighttime-5439/This is a lesson where students learn about the different landforms on Earth. They are able to explore these through different mediums. Then, they are able to use Google Drawings to show a landform of their choice and present it to their classmates. They will be able to collaborate with peers throughout the process. 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits, Digital Science Online, and World Book Encyclopedia - to help students learn about the life cycles of frogs.

In this lesson, students will research matter cycles in various ecosystems. They will develop a model that will show the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Students will choose between a variety of ways to create their model.  (Preview Image: “Food web nemo”, CC-BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons)

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, World Book Online - to help students learn about mountain types.  

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits, World Book Encyclopedia, and eMedia - to help students learn about the sun.

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, World Book Encyclopedia, Digital Science Online, and Gale's Science in Context to help students learn about the seasons of the year.