Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Body Words

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use their bodies to form the letters to spell each of the five words that they were given. They must spell the word correctly and the teacher must be able to read the word from left and right on their "baseline." The teacher...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Why We Trade: Exchanging Goods and Services

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students conduct simple bartering and trading activities and consider how product value can be altered by the market.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Card Suit Aerobics

For Teachers 1st
First graders perform a variety of locomotor skills to enhance aerobic fitness and explain different movements that can be used to keep fit and active.
Lesson Plan
1
1
Curated OER

Locomotor Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice in refining their locomotor skills and developing their understanding of pathways and basic map reading skills.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Easter Egg Hunt

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners increase cardiovascular endurance and develop the components of health related fitness.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Charlie Brown Dance

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students attempt to be creative while practicing the movement concepts of Effort - fast/slow, Space Awareness - Levels and Self space, and Relationships - moving in unison.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Physical Education Pre-Assessment (K-2)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students assess what they think and do during PE class by filling out an assessment form.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Listening Spots

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn their personal space in order to listen to the teacher.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tumbling Dice

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in body weight transfer activities while playing a group game with dice that show the activities.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Panther Mania

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars work together as a class to achieve the goal of good behavior.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

123/ABC Hopscotch

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice alphabet recognition, alphabet sounds, and number readiness while playing a hopscotch type game.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reconstructing the Squares

For Teachers K - 8th
Students visit an outdoors area and mark out a square on the ground that they examine, looking for living and non-living things. They make a model or drawing of the findings from the actual square.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Environment and Recycling Issues

For Teachers 1st
First graders read and understand the text found while conducting internet research. They recognize how literature records information and reflects the human experience. Students also compare and contrast answers to questions. Then...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vincent Van Gogh

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the life and works of Vincent Van Gogh. They complete a class KWL chart, and watch a PowerPoint presentation about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Next, they use a digital photo of themselves to create a self-portrait...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fun With Graphs

For Teachers 1st
First graders read about making graphs and lean how to make graphs using "The Graph Club" software.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Pupils develop an action plan to prevent trash from becoming a problem in the future.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spring Slide Show

For Teachers 1st
First graders work cooperatively to create a sprintime poem, slide show and book entitled "Who Said It's Spring?"
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Big O

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners investigate the characteristics of a community. They investigate the characteristics of the Omaha community through internet research and discussion. Students create books about their community.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Video Reporters - "Get Ready to Use Your Computer"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use technology to produce a student-produced video that shows other students how to adjust keyboard, monitor, chair, and posture for safe and healthy usage of computer. It also demonstrates how to ask for help appropriately in...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Routing Explorers

For Teachers K - 4th
Students read excerpts from an explorer's journal and then become investigators and navigators themselves. Students answer questions about the difficulties and time it took for the explorers to travel from Washington to New Orleans and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spinning Short Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders, in pairs, use spinners to experiment with different combinations of letters. They combine letters and determine whether they have produced a word or not. They construct and record words choosing letters from designated tiles.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Awesome Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners collect data from classmates about their favorite animal. They use the ClarisWorks graphing program to enter data, graph results, and interpret data.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Things We Love

For Teachers K - 1st
Students brainstorm and share things with the class that they love. They are to pick one thing they love and create a drawing of it. They are also to create a class storybook. They share their favorite things with the class as well.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

True Settlers of the Pacific Northwest: Who was there with Dr. John Mcloughlin?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover who was present when the city of Vancouver was founded. Using the internet, they research the various cultures of the area and which were present at the Hudson Bay Company. They discuss each person's role in how the...