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Tutors & Readers Theater
Students complete literacy service learning projects. In this literacy lesson, older students work with younger students to tutor them in reading and writing. They help prepare a Readers Theater for the younger students.
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Developing Kids with Character Through Service Learning
Students discover service learning and how it can help them build character. In this community activity, students brainstorm ways they can assist their classmates with problems, and write about it in their journal. Students...
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Stick Your Neck Out
Students research stories of teens who care using a website embedded in the lesson. In this character education lesson, students read about students who performed philanthropic acts and discuss the projects that most influenced them.
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Environmental Fair
Students investigate environmental issues. In this environmental lesson, students find an object that is considered trash and make something useful out of it. Students present their creative project.
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Buckets of Bucks for World Hunger
Learners participate in a nonprofit organization activity for hunger outreach problems. In this service project lesson, students practice counting coins, complete a service project for a hunger outreach, discuss nutrition and healthy...
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Get Ready, Get Set, Squeeze!
Students explore coin value and count coin combinations. In this money counting and social studies lesson, students read The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and practice counting money and making change for a lemonade...
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Planting Phil's Garden
Students study how to care for plants. In this plant care lesson, students observe a plant care demonstration and examine flowers using their senses. They listen to Janet Wakefield's, What If Everybody Gave? They complete a community...
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What Can a Leaf Be?
Pupils identify leaves for an art project and create a collage. In this leaf instructional activity, students review leaf characteristics. Pupils use leaves to create a collage of an animal or creature. Students write recipes of leaves...
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Volunteers in the Community
Students discuss volunteerism and identify volunteer positions in their community. They choose and carry out a volunteer project in the school or local community.
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LET'S GET ORGANIZED
Learners use organizational skills and involve youth in the planning of their school and home recycling project. They brainstorm to find the most efficient way to set up a recycling collection system
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Interesting Insects
Students discover the characteristics of insects. They explore insects through cooperative learning, group projects, hands on activities, and poetry. They gain knowledge of insect life cycles, habitat, and physical characteristics.
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The Global Grapefruit - Representing a 3-Dimensional Globe on a 2-Dimensional Map
Students compare and contrast world maps and globes. They convert a 3-dimensional globe to a 2-dimensional map. They are introduced to the Mercator map projection. They observe map distortions of shape, area, distance, directions and angle.
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Sign Language
Students create short video tutorials on various American Sign Language signs. This instructional activity is a six-day project that begins with internet research and ends with student self-evaluations of project results.
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My School Year Memory Book
Students create memory books of what they have learned and experienced to use throughout the school year using photographs taken of the them as they are involved in different tpes of activities such as art projects, reading groups, seat...
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Creatures From the Past
Students demonstrate their knowledge of these creatures from the past by creating them in their drawings. They use their imagination and draw these creatures from the past. They make a variety of designs for the background display for...
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Market Day Adventure
Second graders participate in the Market Day project. They produce goods, market goods, and earn money to buy goods.
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How We Use Rocks: Part 1
Second graders read books about rocks, observe rocks and locate a special rock to observe more closely. They complete a worksheet about the chosen rock and create an art project using rocks or pebbles.
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Go Fish! Fish or other Sea Creature from Recycled Materials
Students brainstorm what a fish looks like determining the parts from schema and research. They create a unique and interesting 3-d sculpture of fish or underwater creature mostly from recycled materials, then examine the aesthetics of...
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Positive/Negative Shapes, Shamrocks And Matisse
Students create Shamrock mobiles or art pieces using positive and negative shapes, card stock, glue, and the techniques used by Henri Matisse. The lesson includes many resource links and is a great project for St. Patrick's Day.
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Sun Catching Eggs
Students create wax crayon "eggs" using wax paper, crayon shavings, and an egg template shape in this early-elementary Art lesson. Included with the lesson is an idea for diplaying finished art projects. A great lesson for Easter time.
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Celebration of Cultures
Students create a multimedia project to represent their own culture and personal identity. They design a personal Coat of Arms using a computer graphics program and digital camera, write a script and film an interview, and contribute a...
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The Huichol Community of Mexico: Communicating with Symbols
Students study the Huichol Indians. In this Huichol instructional activity, students red The Journey of Tunuri and the Blue Deer, design a visual story using symbols, and make a painting using large paper shapes. A class mural project...
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Homelessness
Students explore the importance of soup kitchens. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students brainstorm ways they can be philanthropists. Students watch a puppet show about a young girl who doesn't have enough to eat at home...
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Crater Lakes and the Volcanoes of the Cascade Mountains
Students study volcanoes. For this Earth science lesson plan, students read, discuss and take notes on the volcanoes of the Cascade Mountains. This lesson also includes an art project.
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