This article assembles free resources from the Water, Ice, and Snow issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

This article highlights children's literature about states of matter, phase changes, the water cycle, and glaciers and icebergs for use in the elementary classroom.

This article describes how to guide elementary students through writing a research report. The first article in this series described how to organize information.

This article links to resources to help teachers create their own weather stations, participate in real data projects, and assess their students' knowledge of weather tools.

This module refers to elementary school, students’ level A1-A2, 5th grade. The module has 3 vocabulary activities about the weather and 3 grammar activities about adjectives. The last section is a short film for keeping students interested and relaxed, for rewarding them for all the effort they put through the module and of course discuss thoughts and opinions. This module is a combination of listening and speaking, focusing on new vocabulary and grammatical phenomenon. It is multidirectional and has a variety of activities to not only students learn but also to have fun. The videos, one at the beginning and the other one at the end, play significant role, same objectives but different perspectives.

This elementary storyline developed for remote and hybrid teaching was made available through the Growing Elementary Science Project a part of the Washington State ClimeTime initiative. This storyline is developed for 3-5 grade students and presents a weather phenomena in the form of a annual precipitation map from Washington State. Students analyze and interprete the graphical representation and ask questions about the difference between weather and climate. The storyline builds interest and student engagement through an interesting phenomena and then supprorts investigation to consider what is weather and what is climate.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores how elementary teachers can move from a study of the weather at home to the weather of the polar regions through hands-on activity, reading, and discussion.

This article highlights children's literature about weather and climate, the polar regions, and climate change for use in the elementary classroom.

This article explains the difference between weather and climate, the role of the polar regions in the global climate system, and how climate change is affecting these areas. Links to content knowledge resources and the National Science Education Standards are provided.

This article assembles free resources from the Weather and Climate issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

This nonfiction article, written for students in grades 4-5, explores blue whales, their food chain, and their home in the Southern Ocean. Modified versions are available for students in younger grades.

This article provides an overview of research-based resources for engaging girls in math and science available from the Doing What Works web site, a site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

This site provides an overview of research-based resources for teaching English Language Learners available from the Doing What Works web site, a site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

In this lesson students will learn how dependent orchards are on pollinators and discuss the implications of bees dying. Includes discussion questions, activity instructions, and rules for the Beebuzz game.

Time: 45-50 minutes

Materials: "What if There Were No Bees" or other book about bees and our dependence on them, beehive photos, 15 dice, brown paper, scraps of green paper, pink tissue paper, scissors, glue, white paper

This article provides links to interactive web sites and lesson plans for teaching about paleontology, dinosaurs, and archaeology in the elementary classroom.

This article provides a lesson plan that teaches elementary students to write poems about home using sensory language and imagery. Examples of student work are provided.

This nonfiction article, written for students in grades 4-5, explores the life of the arctic wolf. Modified versions are available for students in younger grades.

This article provides ideas for integrating art into a science unit on mammals and discusses how such integration can enhance student engagement and understanding.

This article provides ideas and resources for writing science-themed poetry in the elementary classroom. NCTE/IRA Standards alignments are included for each lesson.

Zombie Guacamole is an upper elementary curricular program created by EarthGen. For this unit, we offer professional development training and assistance with implementation. If you are interested in implementing this program at your school or district, please let us know! Please contact info@earthgenwa.org for more information. In Zombie Guacamole, students build an evidence-based explanation of why a bowl of guacamole was found at the bottom of a 25-year-old landfill, still fresh! The focus of this program is decomposition: what is required for it to occur, its importance to ecosystems, and how waste systems are linked to the health of people and the environment. Students develop explanatory models to describe the movement of matter in an ecosystem and work in groups to manipulateconditions for decomposition in an investigation. Beyond that, students also build knowledge of natural and human-made systems of food production and waste management to inform action in their school community to protect Earth’s resources and environment. Through Zombie Guacamole, students can combine scientific understanding, environmental consciousness, and action to become leaders for a more just and sustainable future.