STUDENT ACTIVITY -- 4th -- TXThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.The student will explore their outdoor space for different forms of energy including mechanical, electrical, light, thermal and sound energy.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning to transform Science education for students in under-served communities.

Students will use knowledge of aquatic and terrestrial environments to identify fossils and predict environmental changes over time.

Students will explore the components of soil and make a model of sedimentary rock layers and fossil fuels.

As a culminating activity for the Grade 4 Out Teach lessons, students collect data in their outdoor space and create a frequency table and bar graph. Then, students apply their frequency table and graphing skills as they begin to collect data centered around their crafted Healthy Choice Plan for School and Home. Students create a frequency table and bar graphs to help monitor their healthy choice behaviors.

Students will observe various aspects of the outdoor classroom to experience the way birds, insects, and objects interact with gravity.

In this lesson, students will observe, compare different objects, and be able to identify the properties of specific materials.

Students research healthy benefits of nutritional foods using nonfiction text and the Healthy Me! graphic organizer. Students then share their research findings using the Jigsaw cooperative learning strategy. As a formative assessment, students construct an exit ticket response regarding the health benefits of a favorite healthy food.

Students investigate how the major body systems (digestive, circulatory, respiratory, muscular, skeletal, and nervous) function during a traditional childhood tag game. As a culminating activity for the 5th grade Passport Lessons, students engage in project-based learning (PBL) to create a Healthy Living Plan and share research findings regarding the benefits of eating healthy foods and vegetables on the major body systems.   

Students will experiment with different areas of the garden that absorb heat from the sun the best.

Students will explore the outdoor classroom for natural examples of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation.

STUDENT ACTIVITY -- 5th -- NCThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.Students will explore the outdoors for natural examples of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning to transform Science education for students in under-served communities.

Students will take temperature readings and collect anecdotal evidence to determine how different materials absorb the sun's heat.

Students brainstorm the negative impacts humans have on the earth and learn to call this term the carbon or ecological footprint. They then explore their outdoor space to identify both the negative and positive impacts humans have on the environment. Next, positive actions humans can take to make the planet sustainable are researched so that students can generate a list of things kids can do to sustain the earth. Students make and present posters of the things they will personally commit to doing. As an optional, but impactful activity, a tree is planted in the outdoor space, marking the commitment to continue to reduce ecological footprints and increasing ecological handprint, leading to a more sustainable planet.

Students measure the length of a pea pod and a carrot in non-standard vegetable units (a pea seed) and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of measuring using non-standard measures. Students then practice measuring length of classroom objects to develop the skills of measurement accuracy and precision. In the outdoor garden, students measure three different fruits, vegetables, and/or herbs that are growing there. They convert their measurements between different units of measure in the metric system. For example: The tomato is 14 cm long or 140 mm long. Finally, students research the health benefits of the fruits and vegetables they measured and taste these healthy foods if they wish. 

Students will explore trees in their outdoor classroom, learn about the important functions that trees serve and devise ways to conserve trees by changing human behaviors: recycling, etc.

Some living things and their offspring have traits that are similar, but not exactly alike. Students will identify the traits of different plants in the garden.

STUDENT ACTIVITY – 1st – NGSSThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.Some living things and their offspring have traits that are similar, but not exactly alike. Students will identify the traits of plants in the outdoors and predict what the traits of their offspring would be.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning to transform Science education for students in under-served communities. .

Some living things and their offspring have traits that are similar, but not exactly alike. Students will identify the traits of different plants in the garden.

Students will explore the garden/outdoor classroom for examples of different plant structures and determine how plants use these structures to meet their needs.

STUDENT ACTIVITY - 5th - NCThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.The student will explore the concept of interdependence, the idea that organisms in an ecosystem rely on one another.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning to transform Science education for students in under-served communities.