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Lesson Plans - All Year Long

Simple Sailboat Craft

You can make these cute little toy boats in just a few minutes. They are great for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice cutting with scissors, drawing, and molding clay.

Teach Your Students to Be “Sun Savvy!”

The summer sun offers teachers an important opportunity to talk about sun safety. Many Internet sites carry strong sun safety messages or offer teachers valuable lesson plans for teaching about the science of the sun.

Summer Safety Safari

First grade students will demonstrate their understanding of summer safety by creating guidelines for Summer Safety posters.

Smiling In The Sun

Students explore the relative positions of the sun and Earth, and how this affects changes from night to day at any point on Earth.

Wind Spinners

Catch the wind and see colors spin! Hang your wind spinner beside an open window or under a protected porch roof to catch the wind in the four Color Sticks-designed sections of your spinner