Lesson
Grades
- Pre K
- Kindergarten
This lesson introduces students to the fundamental differences between living and non-living things using the book "Walk and See ABC" as a primary observation tool. Students will explore the core...
Science | Topics
Collapse
Visit the South Carolina Department of Education for Science standards.
Take a quick look at all Science series on Knowitall.org
Lesson
Grades
- 3
- 4
- 5
Students will blend science and ELA by researching the rock cycle to write an expository "biography" of a pet rock. They will explain how their rock transitioned from one state (e.g., magma) to its...
Video
Grades
- Kindergarten
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
In South Carolina, Reagan, Kyra and Jayden visit Congaree National Park and learn about its unique fireflies that flash in sync! Participating as citizen scientists, they observe and collect data so...
Video
Grades
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 7
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Ancient Architects of the Forest Hidden in the shaded corners of forests, draped across stone, and even tucked into city sidewalks, mosses and lichens quietly shape the world around us. These ancient...
Lesson
Grades
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
In this lesson plan, students will learn about the unique and complicated threat coastal erosion, sea level rise, and climate change poses to cultural sites. Students will examine how maritime...
Video
Grades
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Beneath South Carolina’s sandy soils lives a creature that’s both strange and familiar. Known as the antlion—or “doodlebug” across the South—this insect spends its early life hidden beneath the sand...
Lesson
Grades
- 7
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
This lesson uses tabby, a historical building material local to coastal South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, to explore chemical reactions, changes in the state of matter during chemical reactions...
Video
Grades
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Recently recognized as its own species, Bartram’s Bass tells a story of discovery, persistence, and conservation within the Savannah River system. Join the South Carolina Department of Natural...
Video
Grades
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
For more than four decades, researchers at South Carolina’s Yawkey Wildlife Center have studied one of the state’s most impressive and misunderstood predators — the American alligator. From tracking...
Video
Deep in the rugged mountains of South Carolina, the timber rattlesnake slithers in silence — both majestic and misunderstood. In this episode, see how trained biologists from SCDNR trek into remote...