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 Version 486 KB
- Leo's Colorful Story (PDF) (815 KB)
- Butterfly Maze Activity Sheet (PDF) (348 KB)
Mammals
- All About Mammals Fact Sheet || PDF Version 260 KB
- A Tooth For a Tooth (PDF) (179 KB)
- Biology of Bats || PDF Version 457 KB
- Blind as a Bat || PDF Version 82 KB
- How do Bats Navigate at Night? || PDF Version 187 KB
- Hot Hamsters || PDF Version 302 KB
- Mammal Mobile Craft || PDF Version 293 KB
- Marvelous Mammals Crossword Puzzle (PDF) (109 KB)
- New York Mammals Word Search Puzzle (PDF) (12 KB)
- Skull Science || PDF Version 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 Version 619 KB
Wildlife
- Animal Class Fact Sheet and Records || PDF Version 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 Version 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 Version 363 KB
- Wild Defenses || PDF Version 519 KB
- Wildlife Conservation I || PDF Version 622 KB
- Wildlife Conservation II || PDF Version 581 KB
- Wildlife Conservation III (PDF) (756 KB)
Nature Study
- Find Your Tree || PDF Version 92 KB
- Pebble Activity || PDF Version 90 KB
- Sharp Eyes || PDF Version 88 KB
- Stop and Listen || PDF Version 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 Version 147 KB
- Erosion (PDF) 166 KB
- Icy Roads: Sanding vs. Salting || PDF Version 96 KB
Water Lessons
- DEC Collect and Possess Regulations || PDF Version 317 KB
- Long Island Beach Life (PDF) (714 KB)
- Maintaining Live Organisms Indoors Instructions || PDF Version 207 KB
- Marine Life Word Search Puzzle (PDF) (53 KB)
- Plankton in the Air || PDF Version 487 KB
- Pond Creature Worksheet (PDF) (40 KB)
- Macroinvertebrate Report Worksheet (PDF) (261 KB)
- Pond Dichotomous Key (PDF) (290 KB)
- Pond Ecology || Pond Ecology 585 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)
