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Snowflake, Snowflake
Students practice locomotor and listening skills. Students pretend to be snowflakes. As the teacher reads about snowflakes, students perform the task mentioned. They walk, dance, jump, etc.
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Color Schemes
Students are given a paint chip and are to divide themselves according to the color they have. After watching a PowerPoint, they are given a bag of jelly beans in which they create three different color schemes. To end the lesson, they...
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Peddling Puccini
Students explore the art of the opera. They listen to examples of opera and conduct research to find out more about the opera world. Then they develop advertisements that focus on aspects that might interest young people about opera...
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Using West African Gold Weights and African Masks as a Way of Communication
Eighth graders discuss how communication, or lack thereof, can have either a favorable or detrimental effect on a community. They study and interpret proverbs as a means of teaching a lesson. Finally they discuss symbolism and design a...
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Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience
Students document sections of their life through pictures, stories, and video to create an English "memory book". They use photographs, video and edited video which includes their history, includes calculated growth, and genetic...
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The Greatest Generation: Capturing Their Stories with Digital Images
Students interview a family member of a different generation. After brainstorming story topic ideas, they choose a topic about which to write focused interview questions. Using their notes from the interviews, students write and essay...
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Windsor Opposes Waste - WOW!
Students participate in paper recycling. They are taught to environmental awareness of recycling and its importance in their future. Students discuss and identify the problems of how they can minimize waste. They brainstorm suggestions...
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Photo Talk!
Students communicate with Epals. They write letters with photo exchanges
and create a website for presentations of 3,000 words or less and one photo. They
tell their life stories and illustrate with photos in the target language.
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Glad to Meet You, Newfane
Students brainstorm a list of important community locations or buildings. We take pictures of inside and outside and include the history of each. They describe the service or product it provides, the date originated, etc. They build a...
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The foreign and domestic policies of Lyndon B. Johnson
Eleventh graders study and evaluate the successes and failures of LBJ's domestic and foreign policies. They formulate historical questions and defend findings based on inquiry and interpretation. Each student identifies, analyzes and...
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Weedy Socks & Wheels
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the concept of using socks in order to collect weed seeds. They conduct research in order to illustrate the ease of how weeds are spread from one area to another....
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Out of the Fire
Students share ideas about a lead for a breaking news story regarding the California wildfires. They brainstorm angles for a series of news items and write analysis papers that address the tone and content of a piece published in The New...
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Applied Skills Assessment
In this skills worksheet, 4th graders answer 48 questions from the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress in Language Arts and Mathematics.
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Hour of the Olympics Crossword Puzzle
In this Hour of the Olympics crossword puzzle, students complete a 12 clue puzzle using words about the ancient Olympics.
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Count it, Glue it, Read it!
Students identify numbers 1-10 and count objects to match corresponding numbers. In the number sense lesson, students create a counting book, matching numbers they've written on index cards with the correct number of items (beans,...
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Reading Comprehension: Science News
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, 3rd graders read four different passages about Science News. They answer questions about each one. Students complete 4 comprehension questions.
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The Witch of Goingsnake
Students listen to The Ballad of Ira Hayes and write paragraphs about his character. In this The Witch of Goingsnake lesson, students read the verses and chorus of the ballad aloud and make notes about Ira Hayes. Students write a...
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Reading Between the Lines: Making Inferences About Idioms
Students discover idioms. In this inferencing lesson plan, students identify idioms from passages and infer meanings of unknown idioms using prior knowledge and experience. Students write sentences using newly learned idioms.
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Geography Made Fun with Technology
Students incorporate knowledge box into their classroom activities. In this technology integration lesson, students fill out a graphic organizer using Glossopedia to analyze a new subject.
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Hands On Math Lessons with Technology
Students explore a variety of math concepts. In this integrating technology activity, students visit online webtools such as Max's Math Adventure, I Know That Math, Hands on Banking, and more. A description of each website is provided.
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Billy Budd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the story 'Billy Budd' and then answer the comprehension questions for the story. Students complete 51 questions for the 30 chapters.
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The Quest for Independence
Learners explore how settlers created and cooked over open fires. In this home economics lesson, students will learn how to make a safe, open fire and will cook a meal over it.
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Valentine's Day Booklet
Students create a Valentine's Day booklet. In this creating a book instructional activity, students write and illustrate their own book describing love.
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Angle Action
Young scholars measure and label specified angles. In this angles lesson, students use a protractor to find angles that are acute, obtuse, and reflexive. Young scholars then label each angle and match the angles the correct definition....