Cheerleading Lesson Plans

Students watch a video about one woman who planned to commit murder because of a cheerleading scandal.

Students research how women are perceived in sports. They debate the issue of whether cheer leading should be considered a sport and are scored on student made rubrics.

Learners perform a skit.  In this performance and creativity lesson, learners brainstorm ideas to be performed such as playing basketball, cheerleaders, roller skating and doing the dishes.  Learners perform a skit and the other learners must guess what they are doing.

Students distinguish between hand gestures, standardized hand signals, and formal sign languages; and identify groups of people who routinely use hand signals or sign languages and the reasons why.

Students share examples of good sportsmanship, then read a news article about a team helping an injured player score a home run. In this sportsmanship lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then students read the news report and watch a video about good sportsmanship. Lesson includes interdisciplinary follow-up activities.

This lesson has students identify the similarities and differences between an debit and credit card. In this debit or credit lesson plan, student explain the advantages and disadvantages of using cash and consumer credit to purchase good and services while classifying purchase scenarios as credit or debit transactions.

Students explore ways to deal with anger.  In this anger management lesson, students explore the different causes of anger in their lives.  The students analyze different situations in order to discover a solution to anger.

Learners discover the affects of prescription drug abuse. In this drug awareness lesson, learners use a scripted series of scenes for a play to understand facts and data concerning addiction in individuals and society. This lesson includes a project an assessment, web resources, and worksheets.

In this lesson students participate in a district American Heart Association Jump Rope event. They meet students in their age from other schools in a social setting. In this lesson students come to the High School gym on a Saturday morning in February. They are given a t-shirt, snacks and drinks for participating.

2nd graders perform a variety of activities with a dynamic, everchanging classroom word wall as outlined in these lessons. They become less dependent on the word wall as the school year progresses.