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Personal Opinions, Part 1
Young scholars interview their peers and teachers, in Spanish, about environmental issues. They write a response to their interviews and create a Venn diagram to identify similarities and differences between two cultural responses.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 15: Geo Jingo Jivin'
Second graders explore how musical instruments h ave varying geometric shape, and how those geometric shapes correspond to three-dimenaional shapes that students have studied.
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Independent - To Be or Not Top Be - Day 2, Lesson C: Freedom of Speech
Fifth graders explore the following questions: What is it? What is it like? What is an example?
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Let's Put a Spin on Things: Graffiti Role Play
Fourth graders examine what is and what isn't graffiti. They role-play various scenarios, research the Graffiti Hurts website, and discuss when graffiti should be reported to local law enforcement.
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Mobile Cooking
Students investigate the history of Mobile, Alabama and then create recipes from the area, including Southern Pecan Pie and Mr. Carver's Peanut Brittle.
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Words And the Images They Create
Middle schoolers explore how the written languages of China and Japan evolved, creating representations of Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Emphasis is placed on small, cooperative learning groups.
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Buildings of America
Learners study buildings and their function in society. They develop awareness of their environment and its natural resources. They promote an understanding of how the environment, culture, and natural resources affect the design and...
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Describing Words
First graders brainstorm adjectives, recognize adjectives within text read by teacher, identify sentences that contain adjectives using Hyperstudio stack, and write two descriptive sentences for abstract image they create.
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Offering Social Action To Address Poverty
Students examine the problem of proverty throughout the United States. Using documents, they are encouraged to develop empathy for the poor of America and how to make life easier for those in their local community. They create a piece...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Career Advancement
Students, while examining an extensive vocabulary list on the board, explore how to request job transfers as well as work for job incentives. A graphic organizer helps to assist the students in this task before them.
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The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush: Native American Life
Learners read," The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush" by Tomie dePaola and discuss the way legends are passed down orally. They then create their own legend and illustrate it on a simulated "Buffalo Skin" made from brown paper.
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O-o-o-oh, no-o-o-o!!
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to practice the skill of phonemic awareness. They learn this skill using the phoneme for the letter "o". Students must recognize the letter as well as its sound.
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Vocabulary: Talking About Your Family-2
In this foreign language worksheet, students fill in the blanks for ten sentences. Each sentence is missing a word that describes a family member.
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Getting to Know You
Students complete an getting to know each other activity. In this personal names lesson, students play a name game, read a book about names, and then discuss why names are important. Students design a name card on oak tag rectangles and...
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Geo Jammin'-Day2, Lesson 7: Roll, Roll, Unroll the Scroll
Second graders write in journals, recording personal thoughts about what they learned and/or something they are wondering about.
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Susan Brownell Anthony
Students learn what it was like for women in the United States prior to the time they could vote. They identify important facts and the contributions that Susan B. Anthony made to America.
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Guidelines for Writing Lesson Plans
Students develop procedures in planning and organizing a lesson plan. The plans are used to demonstrate a lesson.
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New York Explorers
Fourth graders investigate the early explorers of New York state. They identify their country of origin, reason for exploration, and the results. They produce a PowerPoint based on their results.
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Civil liberties: Fundamental freedoms
Young scholars explore civil liberties. They list and describe the fundamental freedoms guaranteed to Canadians. Students illustrate how Charter rights are applies. They examine current issues and suggest how the courts might apply...
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Make reading cool
Students look at ways of encouraging others to read and write a letter to Jacqueline Wilson. Students read a a news article on Jackqueline Wilson. They discuss ways or promoting reading. Students imagine they are an author invited to...
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Putting on Beowulf
Students read "Putting on Beowulf" then, in separate groups, choose a segment of Beowulf to perform. They prepare a performance either "live" or on videotape. After listening and watching each performance, Students evaluate each...
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Learners hear the story How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Wallace Bleef and share their own summer experiences. They write a tale about one event that happened during their summer using exaggeration.
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Magazine Sales Talks
Students role-play to determine the best types of magazines that should be purchased for their media center. They create a sales presentation for a particular magazine in small groups. As they listen to each presentation they evaluate...
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Writing Letters Using Appleworks
Students discover how to write letters using Appleworks. Following a demonstration by the teacher, they compose rough drafts of their letters. Working independently, students correct their drafts and type the final versions.