Classroom Tools & Resources Lesson Plans

Students explore calendars, months, and seasons.  In this calendar lesson, students discuss the days of the week and months of the year. They state their birthday month and create a classroom calendar. 

Students create classroom rules. In this reading and language arts lesson, students discuss the importance of rules and come up with rules for their classroom. They all sign the rule page and the teacher takes photos of them following the rules.

2nd graders, using Microsoft Word, create a tool riddle.

In this lesson students visit the Constitution Center. In this U.S. Constitution lesson, students watch "The Living News," dramatization regarding the Constitutional issues. In this lesson students discuss the issues presented in the performances and consider how the issues are represented in the media.

In this lesson learners explore other ways to extend an adding patterning by using a classroom tool. They discuss the tool that can be used to extend an adding pattern. In this lesson learners are introduced to the calculator. They locate the various keys and how to use them. In this lesson learners practice checking problems on the calculator.

In this lesson students discover why recycling is important to Earth. They consider the multiple ways to recycle copy paper. In this lesson students transform scrap copy paper with printing on one side into practical classroom tools; an envelope and a drinking cup.

5th graders participate in online astronomy activities with hundreds of fun explorations into astronomy as a classroom tool for learning how to theorize, experiment, and analyze data.

Students prepare and care for a classroom science corner. In this science lesson, students contritubute items to the classroom science corner, and invite other classes of students into their room to share their scientific items.

Students watch a video on the Alaskan native ways. In this Alaskan exploration lesson students examine how the natives knowledge was passed down from their elders and how the Alaskans lived with harmony in nature.  They will then prepare a classroom science fair project based on their own lives and present it. 

In this lesson students discover the use of technology in education.  In this learning resources lesson, students create presentations of PDA's and GPS devices to educate their teachers on the latest technological advances.  In this lesson students demonstrate the devices for teachers and parents.