A lesson plan for 4th grade science. Kids create a version of the marble roll project to simulate a manufacturing process.

Grade Level: 4–8 Time Required: Approximately 4 one-hour class periods and 2-3 homework sessions
OVERVIEW: Students learn about the oral culture and history-keeping of the Nakota people, who made the Lone Dog Winter Count. Then they create a monthly pictograph calendar of their own to document a year of their personal history.

This 15 minute video explores how to leverage mini lessons to have great impact on learning for your students. Templates are provided for planning mini lessons as well. Mini lessons truly change (and set you and your students up to win) the game.

Among numerous teaching techniques, we recommend paying attention to scaffolding. As in construction sites, scaffolding in education means providing support for students while they are doing their work – studying. This article will cover the key benefits of scaffolding and provide ideas on how to incorporate it into the classroom.

How do our everyday actions contribute to our ecological footprint? Can we change our individual actions to be more environmentally friendly and create a more sustainable lifestyle? In this lesson, students will evaluate their own environmental impact using an online tool called Your Plan, Your Planet, and evaluate simple ways to reduce their ecological footprint as an individual or community.

Teach your students how to make plastic out of milk in this hands-on lesson plan! You will conduct a simple milk-transforming experiment to explore how plastics can be derived from a natural resource such as milk. Students will perform their own experiments and can even create a product from their resulting organic casein polymer.
This resource states that it is appropriate for grade 6-8 however I am going to use it with the grade 5 Properties of Matter unit.