Carolyn Martin

As a first grade teacher, I have spent 25+ years opening the world of reading to young children. While I enjoy all of the early elementary content, reading is my favorite subject to teach. I have spent most of my teaching years in one school, watching it grow from a small 30 student school in a chicken house (its temporary 40 year home) to a new facility with over 130 students. I now enjoy teaching with former students and seeing their development from a six year-old to an adult. I also do a few sideline jobs for CLP. Other interests outside of school include books, photography, and design.

Our Wonderful Machine

Seven lesson plans to teach students about their bodies. Students make a model of their body and add brain, muscles, bones, heart, lungs, stomach, etc as they learn about each part.

Solar System Blacklines

Blackline master of the planets in the solar system. These are used in the lesson introducing our solar system in Carolyn Martin's lesson plans on the Wonders of the Universe.

Plant Life

Eight lesson plans teaching students about plants. Things covered in these lessons are: what makes a plant, the parts of plants, and what a plant needs to stay alive. Students will enjoy growing a plant and doing experients to...

Moon Wheel Blackline

A project for students showing the moon phases. This was created to be used with Carolyn Martin's lesson plan about the moon in Wonders of the Universe.

Life Cycle Of A Butterfly

A lesson plan for grades 1 & 2 about observering and identifying the various stages of a butterfly: the egg, the larva, the chrysalis, the adult.

Suggested Resources for Teaching Science in Grades 1 and 2

Title: Science Enrichment Grades 1-2 Author: Daryl Vriesenga Publisher: Instructional Fair ISBN: 0-88012-913-1 Title: Berenstain Bears’ Big Book of Nature and Science Author: Stan & Jan Berenstain Publisher: Random House ISBN:...