Cover lessons
No-prep lessons for a supply teacher
46 lessons that need nothing but the printed sheets. Each PDF has a step-by-step guide anyone can follow, the student pages and the answers. Leave it on the desk and go.
- Pick a lesson for the class's grade below.
- Download the PDF: 3 lessons are free with a free account.
- Print the student sheets and leave the guide on the desk. Every lesson runs about an hour.
Year 1 to Year 3
- Year 2 to Year 4 Do baby animals look like their parents? Science · 40–50 min
- Year 2 to Year 4 Why don't puppies from the same litter look the same? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 2 to Year 4 Can where you live change how you look? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 1 to Year 3 What do animals and plants need to live? Science · 40–50 min
- Year 1 to Year 3 Who eats who? Science · 45 min
- Year 1 to Year 3 How do bees help flowers? Science · 45–55 min
Year 4 to Year 6
- Year 4 What can fossils tell us about long ago? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 Why do some animals live in groups? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 Why do some animals in a family survive better? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 What happens when a habitat changes? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 Why do stars come out at night? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 Why do the stars seem to move across the sky? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 Why do we see different stars in different seasons? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 What makes a good science question? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 What is a fair test? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 How do scientists turn results into answers? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 What did Ignaz Semmelweis discover? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 Where has the water in your glass been? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 4 to Year 7 Where is all of Earth's water? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 Where does your stuff come from? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 Will our energy ever run out? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 Do more people always use more resources? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 How can a town use less and waste less? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 Is summer when Earth is closest to the Sun? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 Why are summer days longer? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 Why is sunlight stronger in summer? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 How big is the solar system, really? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 Why do planets go around the Sun and not fly away? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 6 to Year 9 What is each world like? Science · 50–60 min
Year 7 to Year 9
- Year 7 to Year 8 Are we in the red? Math · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 What happens to a population when food runs out? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 Are living things competitors, predators or partners? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 What makes a biome? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 How can we protect an ecosystem's services? Science · 55–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 8 Which is the better deal? Math · 45–60 min
- Year 8 to Year 9 Why do you look like your family, but not exactly? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 8 to Year 9 How can two purple-flowered pea plants have a white-flowered one? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 8 to Year 9 What did Mendel count? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 8 to Year 9 What happens when a gene changes? Science · 45–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 Why do some animals survive and others don't? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 What did the Grants find on the Galápagos? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 How do fossils show life has changed? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 How fast can people change a species? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 Where does a tree's mass come from? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 What happens to the food a plant makes? Science · 50–60 min
- Year 7 to Year 9 How does energy from the Sun move through a whole ecosystem? Science · 50–60 min
Practice packs for a quiet period
Worksheets with answer keys. Each has a free sample to try.
- Year 5 Grade 4 Rocks and Minerals · free sample
- Year 5 Grade 4 Sound: Vibrations, Pitch and Echoes · free sample
- Year 5 Grade 4 Light and Colour · free sample
- Year 4 Grade 3 Word Problems: 100 Canadian Situations · free sample
- Year 5 Grade 4 Time and Measurement Problems · free sample
- Year 5 Grade 4 Time and Measurement Word Problems (Common Core) · free sample
- Year 5 Grade 4 Word Problems: 100 Canadian Situations · free sample
- Year 6 Grade 5 Money Problems: Shopping in Canada · free sample
- Year 6 Grade 5 Word Problems: 100 Canadian Situations · free sample
- Year 2 to Year 4 Canadian Money: Counting Coins and Bills · free sample
- Year 6 to Year 8 Mean, Median, Mode and Range · free sample
On the day: put a lesson timer or visual schedule on the projector, and use the name wheel to pick helpers.