Spring Favorites
Welcome the season of life and growth with a spring festival for your students. Introduce learners to various life cycles, the changing weather patterns, and outdoor activities and science projects. Find refreshing ideas in the resources and articles below and print out these spring-themed reproducibles for a quick and fun lesson.
- Tadpole Transformation (PDF)
- I SPY Spring Parties (PDF)
- Butterfly Wings Life-Cycle Wheel and Poem (PDF)
Articles
Scholastic Parents | February 21,2007
Welcome the spring season with these refreshing read-aloud story books. This list of book recommendations includes plot summaries and, in some cases, links to more information.
Spring Cleaning
Teaching with Clifford |
Woof! Woof!: The focus of this lesson is to teach children about the importance of working together to care for our surroundings and the environment by recycling through participation in cooperative learning and classroom projects.
Let's put some "SPRING" into our step!
by Andrea J. Spillett
Students celebrate spring with seasonal activities and parent participation.
Learning Centers: Spring into Science!
by Ellen Booth Church
Early Childhood Today |
April ,2000
In this Learning Center, Ellen Booth Church offers tools and plans for investigations of the natural world.
Scholastic Parents | February 21,2007
Introduce the spring season with these wonderful books for beginners. Books with springtime themes like butterflies and birds. List includes spring poetry collections.
by Mary Seehafer Sears
Scholastic Parents | March 6,2007
Get your green thumb dirty with these outdoor experiments and activities.
by Megan Pflug
Parent & Child | April ,2007
Get in the swing of spring with this cheery craft.
Spring Forward!
Welcome the Spring by studying seasonal changes, such as animal migration, that occur with the advent of the vernal equinox.
by Andrea J. Spillett
Students study the life cycle of chickens as they hatch them from eggs.
A Look at Life Cycles
Illustrate the life cycle of an apple tree by having students work as a team to create a display about the four seasons.
Dig Into Springtime Science
Instructor Magazine |
Six easy experiments for springtime science.
Where Do Rainy Days Come From?
Instructor Magazine |
March ,2001
Activities that introduce the water cycle, including a weather calendar, a manipulative model, rain cycle flap books, and charting a month of rain.
Resources
Spring is Here Lesson Plan
Young readers will enjoy this story about a young girl who enjoys the sights, smells, and activities of spring. Perfect for independent reading, it also relates perfectly to science and nature studies.
Lesson Plans
Fall vs. Spring
by Andrea J. Spillett
Connect science and language arts in these activities, which include comparing and contrasting fall and spring, engaging in a color science experiment, and identifying the different characteristics of a flower.
From Seed to Plant
by Steven Hicks
Describes methods for introducing the world of plants to students. Covers plant structure, growth, life style, and oxygen production with a hands-on approach.
