Grades 3 - 6 Lesson Plans
Lessons are divided into themes to correlate to environmental topics.
- Animals - These lesson plans encompass amphibians, birds, fish, insects, mammals and reptiles with instruction across multiple disciplines.
- Nature Study - These lessons incorporate multiple subject disciplines as an aid in exploring, discovering, and observing nature.
- Recycling and Conservation - These lessons look at the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Soils - These lesson plans focus on the composition, properties and conservation of this important resource.
- Water - These lessons examine wildlife within aquatic ecosystems.
Animal Lessons
Insects
- Insects Galore! (PDF) (486 KB)
- Leo's Colorful Story (PDF) (815 KB)
- Butterfly Maze Activity Sheet (PDF) (348 KB)
Mammals
- All About Mammals Fact Sheet (PDF) (260 KB)
- A Tooth For a Tooth (PDF) (179 KB)
- Biology of Bats(PDF) (457 KB)
- Blind as a Bat (PDF) (82 KB)
- How do Bats Navigate at Night? (PDF) (187 KB)
- Hot Hamsters (PDF) (302 KB)
- Mammal Mobile Craft(PDF) (293 KB)
- Marvelous Mammals Crossword Puzzle (PDF) (109 KB)
- New York Mammals Word Search Puzzle (PDF) (12 KB)
- Skull Science (PDF) (651 KB)
- Who Am I? Animal Signs Matching Game (PDF) (93 KB)
- Animal Signs Word Search (PDF) (87 KB)
- Animal Signs Crossword (PDF) (87 KB)
Reptiles
- Reptiles (PDF) (619 KB)
Wildlife
- Animal Class Fact Sheet and Records (PDF) (362 KB)
- Animal Defenses Worksheet (PDF) (247 KB)
- Animal Offspring Word Search Puzzle (PDF) (47 KB)
- My Favorite Animal Worksheet (PDF) (73 KB)
- Five Classes of Vertebrates (PDF) (474 KB)
- Five Classes of Vertebrates Word Scramble Puzzle (PDF) (142 KB)
- New York State Endangered and Threatened Species Fact Sheet (PDF) (197 KB)
- Predator, Predator, Don't Eat Me! (PDF) (363 KB)
- Wild Defenses (PDF) (519 KB)
- Wildlife Conservation I (PDF) (622 KB)
- Wildlife Conservation II (PDF) (581 KB)
- Wildlife Conservation III (PDF) (756 KB)
Nature Study
- Find Your Tree (PDF) (92 KB)
- Pebble Activity (PDF) (90 KB)
- Sharp Eyes (PDF) (88 KB)
- Stop and Listen (PDF) (96 KB)
Recycling and Conservation Lessons
- Aluminum Can Challenge Worksheet (PDF) (98 KB)
- Recycle Every Day Word Search (PDF) (45 KB)
- Where is Away? (PDF) (693 KB)
Soils
- Soil Studies: Soil Particle Sizes (PDF) (147 KB)
- Erosion (PDF) (166 KB)
- Icy Roads: Sanding vs. Salting (PDF) (96 KB)
Water Lessons
- DEC Collect and Possess Regulations (PDF) (317 KB)
- Long Island Beach Life (PDF) (714 KB)
- Maintaining Live Organisms Indoors Instructions (PDF) (207 KB)
- Marine Life Word Search Puzzle (PDF) (53 KB)
- Plankton in the Air (PDF) (487 KB)
- Pond Creature Worksheet (PDF) (40 KB)
- Macroinvertebrate Report Worksheet (PDF) (261 KB)
- Pond Dichotomous Key (PDF) (290 KB)
- Pond Ecology (PDF) (571 KB)
- Pond Life Word Search Puzzle (PDF) (116 KB)
- World of the Pond (PDF) (94 KB)
- World of the Pond Data Sheet (PDF) (50 KB)
- World of the Pond Crossword (PDF) (108 KB)
- World of the Pond Word Search (PDF) (84 KB)
- World of the Pond Word Match (PDF) (91 KB)
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