Students create original works of art using chalk, tempera paints, and paper in this art activity for elementary and middle level classrooms. The lesson includes ideas for displaying or mounting finished works of chalk art in the...

Students recognize coins and understand their values. For this coins lesson, students identify sets of coins and match them with their value.

Students complete basic math problems. In this measurement lesson, students learn about measuring in inches and feet. Students are given a worksheet where they work independently to complete addition problems with inches and feet.

Young scholars explore animal groups. In this animal science lesson, students use pictures from magazines and classify the animals into five categories. Young scholars share why they categorized the animals the way they did.

Students study the lives of dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson, students create dinosaur dioramas that depict how and where the creatures lived. Students also discuss extinction with their teacher.

Learners study how things are stored and how information is retrieved.  In this investigative lesson students play a game that helps them to see how things are sorted in a library. 

Learners plein air drawing. In this drawing skills lesson, students follow the provided steps that require them select natural objects and utilize plein air skills to complete their drawings.

Students investigate the habits of animals by studying their prints.  In this animal life lesson, students investigate the different types of tracks left from animals by researching the Internet.  Students utilize clay or...

Second graders practice with fractions and fact families. For this fractions and fact families lesson, 2nd graders participate in a series of activities to assist them with understanding fractions.  Activities include graphing,...

Students choose between the operations of addition or subtraction to solve a real life problem. In this addition and subtraction instructional activity, students make a chart of items sold in the school store. Students then work in teams...

Learners stop and guide a ball with their chest. Note: This is a good lesson to use as an introduction to a soccer unit.

Students, through the reading of the book: "Jeremy Rabbit's Honesty Pie", study the value of honesty and what it means. This lesson is a fun, interactive way to examine what honesty means and how it should be used in life. Previous to...

Students discover how things grow and how they can take better care of the environment in this Earth Day lesson for the elementary classroom. The activity can be accomplished in one day and left in the sun until the "beans" begin growing.

Learners create log cabins out of strips of construction paper in this Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on the study of how people live today versus in the distant past. A resource link is included for...

Students create "sole people" using tempera paint, drawing paper, and shoe prints in this multi-level art lesson plan. The lesson plan can be combined with a brief history of the African-American inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger, who...

Students learn a story and turn it into a puppet show using puppets they make out of craft materials. In this puppet show lesson plan, students make the puppets and perform a story that is already published in small groups.

Second graders explore the geography of Nevada. In this map-making lesson plan, 2nd graders use salt dough to create a relief map of Nevada. Students label the landforms and bodies of water that are studied and specified in the lesson...

Second graders research dangerous weather and how they can stay safe. In this environment lesson, 2nd graders view video clips and research the Internet to identify the different types of severe weather storms. Students complete a...

Second graders study money amounts less than a dollar. In this math activity, 2nd graders practice counting coins. Students read various stories and discuss how money was used in the stories.

Second graders explore number values by completing number sentences. In this math functions instructional activity, 2nd graders identify whole numbers by using a visual aide and practice filling in the blank in number sentences. Students...

Second graders explore number values by completing estimation problems in class. In this place value instructional activity, 2nd graders identify the use of decimals in numbers and how they relate to fractions or parts of a whole....

Students explore dinosaurs. In this dinosaur identification lesson, students watch video clips for different dinosaurs from the Discovery Kids website. Students discuss the clips with their teacher. Students may then role play the...

Students create a dinosaur egg with balloons and newspaper.  In this earth science instructional activity, students explore the extinction of dinosaurs.  Students view a web clip and relate it to the extinction of animals they...

Learners investigate solar energy. In this solar energy lesson plan, students compare how heat is absorbed in light-colored objects and dark-colored objects by making S'mores.