Spring Resources
Spring is a time of birth, growth, and development for plants and animals. This is the perfect season to teach your students about the Earth sciences. Use our spring lessons, printables, bulletin board ideas, and art activities to supplement your science units. You'll find plenty of resources on life cycles for elementary, intermediate, and high school classes.
Whiteboard Compatible Mini-Lessons
Enhance your teaching strategies and students' learning with these mini-lessons and slideshows with activities on animals.
Slideshows
Browse our collection of slideshows to find resources to enhance your curriculum about spring. Includes a printable book with activities and lesson plans.
Printables
Teach your students about the season of spring with these printables. Includes activities on life cycles, and the origins of May Day with fun classroom activities.
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet
- Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet
- Baseball Fun
- May Day
- Butterfly Facts and Questions
- Butterfly Life Cycle Quiz
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Poster & Activities
- More Spring Printables
Lesson Plans
Our Lesson Plans will help students understand spring with activities such as growing a class garden and life cycles of insects.
- Life Cycle of Butterflies
- Class Garden
- The Sunflower
- Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring
- Traveling Seeds
- Butterfly Garden Lesson Activity
- Herbs in the Classroom
- More Spring Lesson Plans
References
Refer to our resources on the spring season to enhance your lessons and add to students' learning. Some activities included in the reference information.
Resources about Plants
Choose from our resources to expand students' knowledge with activities such as labeling the parts of a plant, putting together a mini-book, and learning about plants in the rain forest.
- Plant Parts (Grades 1 & 2)
- Plants & Trees Printable Book (Grades K-4)
- Careers: Who Am I?
- How a Seed Grows -- Little Book
- From Seed to Plant
- In Which Liquids Do Seeds Grow Best?
- Layers of the Rain Forest Worksheets
- More Plants Resources for Teachers
Resources about Animals
Your students' knowledge about animals will be expanded with these resources. Includes matching animals to their habitats, life cycles of insects, and learning the animals that live in the rain forest.
Digital Books
Expand your lessons with these Digital Books about spring and increase your students' learning. Use our books as introduction lessons or for current learning about plants and animals.
- Ready, Set Grow!
- Eye Wonder: Plant
- Eyewitness: Bird
- Eyewitness: Plant
- Eye Wonder: Forest
- Eye Wonder: Birds
- Eyewitness: Eagle & Birds of Prey
- E.Guides: Plant
- Digital Book Library
Spring Holidays
Take a look through our resources of holidays occurring in the spring and extend your lessons as well as student learning when you use them.
- Earth Day Teacher Resources
- Easter Resources for Teachers
- Mother's Day Teacher Resources
- Passover Teacher Resources
- St. Patrick's Day Teacher Resources
Art Activities
Incorporate art activities into your lessons about spring by using our resources. Includes a bulletin board lesson, a printable book with activities, and more.
- Maisy's Nature Walk Activity Kit
- Spring Printable Book (Pre-K to 5)
- Classroom Tree Bulletin Board
- "My Garden Song"
- May Baskets
- The Rabbit
Science Activities
Extend your spring lessons and students' learning using these science resources, such as enrichment activities with a booklet, butterfly facts and questions, and more.
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet
- Life Cycle of Butterflies
- Butterfly Life Cycle Worksheet
- Top 10 Spring Activities (K-8)
- The Sunflower
- Baseball Fun
- Butterfly Facts and Questions
- More Popular Spring Activities for Science Class
Reading & Language Arts Activities
These activities will help students expand their knowledge about spring. Includes a booklet with enrichment cross-curricular activities and a Spanish vocabulary resource.
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities Booklet
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Poster & Activities
- The Works of Eric Carle: Quiz & Answer Key
- Spanish Vocabulary Challenge: Springtime
- More Spring Resources for Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies Activities
Explore spring connections using these social studies resources about celebrations and traditions which occur in the spring season.
Other Seasons
If you enjoyed these resources for Spring, click the links below to our resources for the other seasons.
Recommended Spring Resources
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ACTIVITIES
Spring Themed Math Station Rotations for Elementary Classrooms
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CHOICE BOARDS
Spring Plants Choice Board for Elementary Grades
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LESSON PLANS
In Which Liquids Do Seeds Grow Best?
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WORKSHEETS
Layers of the Rain Forest Worksheets
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TEACHING RESOURCE
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TEACHING RESOURCE
Digital Book Library from DK
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WORKSHEETS
Careers: Who Am I?
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BOOK GUIDES
Charlotte's Web Extension Activities
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ACTIVITIES
Seasons Printables Slideshow
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ACTIVITIES
Traveling Seeds
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GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Spring Choice Boards (Grades 3-5)
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WORKSHEETS
From Seed to Plant
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EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Plants & Trees Printable Book (Grades K-4)
Browse a printable teacher resource book that covers plants in a fun and skill-oriented way. Activities include word sea... -
ACTIVITIES
Classroom Tree Bulletin Board
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WORKSHEETS
"My Garden Song"
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LESSON PLANS
A Seasonal Terrarium
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WORKSHEETS
Seasons Worksheets
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CHOICE BOARDS
St. Patrick's Day Math Choice Board for Middle School
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this themed choice board for the middle school classroom. Each choice board has a va... -
ACTIVITIES
Spring Equinox Choice Board for Elementary
Celebrate the season and study the science and traditions behind the spring equinox with the cross-curricular choice boa... -
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Spring Activities & Resources - Printable Book
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REFERENCE
May Day: A Cornucopia of Holidays
Read about May 1st holidays throughout history and around the world. In addition to May Day, this reference includes inf... -
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Seasons Printable Book (K-6)
Celebrate the seasons with lesson plans and activities for autumn, winter, summer, and spring. This printable book for g... -
ACTIVITIES
May Day Activities and Teaching Ideas
Welcome spring into your classroom and teach your students about May Day celebrations and traditions with this printable... -
REFERENCE
The Equinox