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Lesson Plans - 4th Grade

Don’t Use it All Up!

How can water be conserved? Using sponges as an example, students need and use water daily in many ways, and often in unrealized amounts. Water is used directly for drinking (1/2 gallon a day). The sponges used will represent humans demands on the water supply on earth.

Water Pollution

Students will be able to:

1. Identify 2 or more pollutants in a bog, marsh, stream or other wetland area.
2. Relate a pollution prevention message through words and art.
3. Understand that some pollutants can not be seen.

The Water Cycle

The water cycle explains the sun heating the earth’s surface water so that it evaporates. This vapor gathers in clouds which rise to the cold air. When those clouds become too heavy to float, they release their moisture as precipitation. The precipitation collects in lakes or oceans after siphoning through soil or running down rivers. It then evaporates and repeats the cycle once again.

Best of the Icebreakers

Maybe you’ll find the perfect idea here for your first day of school. If not, be sure to check out more than 100 additional ideas that have been submitted over the years to our Icebreaker Activities Archive.

Icebreakers: Volume 12

Teachers were sharing favorite activities they do with their students during the first days of a new school year.