Balloon Plants
How to create and grow plants inside a balloon.
Month: October 2010
Visible Roots: Plant Growth You Can See
As tulips bloom and the trees are finally a little greener, thoughts of planting seeds suddenly “Spring” to mind. Before you even touch a packet of seeds though, check out this clearly clever idea for keeping track of what those roots actually DO.
Spring Fever: Create a Plant Nursery Indoors
Winter blues got you down? Summer heat keeping you in? Or perhaps it’s almost Spring Break and you can’t wait for some warmer weather. Whatever the season, bring some green into your classroom by creating a miniature nursery.
Earth Day Everyday
Earth Day is officially 40 years old, as of April 22, 2010. But you can have Earth Day everyday in your classroom. Here we discuss several activities for students to focus on anytime.
Cooperative Lesson: Create a Food Web
T2T Contributor: Barbara Braxton, Teacher Librarian, Palmerston District Primary School, Palmerston ACT 2913, Australia This is a variation of a game called Web of Life. >>>
Frogs: Grow Your Own
Raising frogs from tadpoles sounds like a great idea, except for possibly wading through muck trying to scoop them up. Contributor Kimberle Steinberg tipped us >>>
The Excretory System
It’s not “P.C.” but someone has to teach it… In this case, that someone is Teachnet contributor, Darcy Hartley-Pinard, from Northview Public Schools in Grand >>>
The Human Body
Objective: To introduce students to their bodies, their parts, their functions, and their location. Resources: 1) Roll of newsprint from your local newspaper office. 2) >>>
A Mirror Brain Teaser
This may boggle your students’ minds for a while. If a mirror reverses an image left to right, then why doesn’t it reverse the same image top to bottom? What do you think? Here’s our unscientific opinion:
Cheap-O Electricity Unit
Old Christmas lights and a D cell battery provide all the juice you need for a cheap-o electricity lesson.
Stick it Together
Learning about adhesives is a real-world experience. Here are ideas to help the experience stick with your students.
Glop Gloop: Gooey fun in time for Fall
Yes, it’s Fall and Halloween will be here before you know it. Reader Linda Patton shares these recipes for physics-defying goop your students can make, play with and learn from.
Clingy & Colorful Crystals
Salt, sugar, borax, washing soda…. There is a long list of ingredients that can go into solutions which form crystals. T2T contributors offer advice on >>>
Make Ice Cream in a Plastic Bag
Yes, it sounds dangerous and the potential for messes seems highly likely, but you’ll be surprised at the good, “clean” fun you’ll enjoy with your >>>
Keeping Cool With Air Conditioners
Only in the past decade or so have districts begun installing air conditioners in old schools, and including them in new schools. Air conditioning is >>>