Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...

Students will engage in different activities to help them learn about physical skills. Students will play Busy Body Bingo, Movement Bingo, Silly Stretching, On the Move, Hullabaloo, Little Sliders, and Frog Pond. Students will keep a...

This module features a lesson plan for shapes. Teachers of thie lesson will engage their students in a game that requires the use of balance, movement, and "shape" mathematical concepts.

Used in the preschool or lower elementary grades, this dance can reinforce the concepts of moving in a low, medium and high level as well as practicing movements to the right and left.

The students are going to pretend to be pizza dough being made into a pizza pie. The teacher will give the following step by step instructions for the process of making the pizza. Children respond by moving their bodies as if they were...

This activity promotes movement through imagery inspired by words associated with each letter of the alphabet.

The writer will analyze and discuss the tall tale format after reading Jerry Spinelli's tale of Cobble's Knot, told in Chapter 20 of Maniac Magee. Then writers will need to create an interesting character in a special situation which...

This lesson plan is themed around Christmas, and teaching students about Christmas music.

Find ideas for water fitness and aerobics at this website. While in a pool, you can use kickboards, water jugs, fins, and water resistant equipment as you participate in a variety of activities: a warm-up, stretches, cardiovascular...

Using calculators, students investigate quadratic functions using geometric toothpick designs in this lesson that with a review of transformations of quadratic functions, vertical and horizontal shifts, and stretches and shrinks.

A very detailed lesson plan that stretches over nine lessons that develop the students' understanding of why the Ludlow Massacre occurred and the ramifications of it. [pdf]

In this lesson, students "rediscover" weather as they use movement to act it out. Using their whole body to bend, stretch and exercise, students follow along as the teacher calls out and moves different types of weather.

Following along with their teacher, students learn about the various upper body muscles we have such as the bicep and pectoral muscles and learn how to give them a good stretch and exercise.

This lesson depicts students following along with their teacher to learn about lower body muscles. Students learn about muscles such as the gluteal and hamstring and how to give them a good stretch and exercise.

In this lesson, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students...

For this lesson, students follow along as their teacher walks them through a variety of exercises and stretches targeting the whole body.

In this lesson, surrounding a theme children love, their birthdays, students will exercise, move and stretch in way you might while celebrating a birthday.

Students will demonstrate body management skills specific to balance with and without the use of apparatus by working their way through a series of stations. A balancing checklist for assessment is included.

Students will discover who the Inca were, where they lived, and how they communicated across the vast stretches of their mountain realm, the largest empire of the pre-industrial world through a variety of activities.

In this investigation of macroinvertebrates, students will build rock baskets and place them in various parts of a river to collect insects. Students will group insects according to their pollution tolerance and use the PTI to determine...

A statistically-minded state trooper wondered if the speed distributions are similar for cars traveling northbound and for cars traveling southbound on an isolated stretch of interstate highway. Students will use the data collected by...

Jerry and Ashley are trying to find out if it is possible to see the lowest point in the USA from the highest point in the USA. It turns out that the highest point in the United States, the peak of Mount Whitney, is only 85 miles from...

For this lesson, students will learn how to use a hula hoop and practice balancing, stretching, and twisting.