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The Impact
Students see what inventors have to think about when making an invention. In this inventions instructional activity students examine Thomas Edison and the light bulb and the history of inventions.
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Where Are The Dinosaurs?
Students study what happened to the dinosaurs and possible causes of extinction. In this investigative instructional activity students create dinosaur eggs.
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Looking at Body Language
Students examine Dorothea Lange's photograph of a migrant mother and consider how artists express emotions, ideas, and physical conditions through gesture, pose, clothing, and expression.
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FRED the FISH
Students engage in the study of the human impact on environmental systems (specifically rivers). This lesson enhances Students' exploration of a variety of themes or topics.
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Oxygen
Young scholars explore oxygen and its physical and chemical propeties. In this investigative lesson students complete several experiments using oxygen.
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Pump It Up With Paper Plates!
Students use a paper plate for a variety of P.E. activities. They can use the paper plates for an aerobics routine at home.
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Ghostbusters (tossing & catching scarves)
Students play a game with scarves to practice throwing and catching. They each have a scarf, sit in a circle, and sing a ghost-related song, playing various scarf tricks at the same time.
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Decomposers- Nurse Logs
Students investigate temperate forest ecosystems. In this environmental lesson, students discover different forms of decomposition and its effect on the environment.
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Put Me in My Place: Using Alphanumeric Grids to Locate Places
Students practice locating points on a large wall grid and create and label a neighborhood map. In this geography instructional activity, students spell and discuss places as the teacher places them on the map. They discuss the concept...
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Egg-ceptional Poetry Writing
Young scholars recognize that eggs have nutritional value. In this eggs lesson, students create poetry for a shape book on eggs. Young scholars participate in additional games and activities about the egg.
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Families and Neighborhoods
Learners study family structure. In this family structure lesson, students read the book The Family Book and discuss families. Learners create a bulletin board of family photos and draw their families on paper. Students dance and play...
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Trade along the Silk Roads
Learners explore the Silk Road. In this Asian history and culture lesson plan, students read a book about the silk Road, then create pictures of the products and landscapes found along the Silk Road.
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Tune Up Your Ears!
Students discuss meaning of pitch, listen for different sounds in classroom, hallway, and outdoors, and listen to sounds played on piano and on computer to determine high or low pitch.
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Getting Parents On Your Side
Strong ties between parents and teachers produce a learning environment that benefits everyone.
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Hula Hoop Dribbling
Young scholars practice and improve their ability to consistently dribble a ball, using cues previously introduced.
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Harriet's Halloween Sort
Young scholars listen to the book, Harriet's Halloween Candy, and discuss the many ways Harriet sorted the candy from her trick-or-treat bag. They sort and classify individually wrapped candy.
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Nunavut, Our Communities
Students locate the communities of Nanavut on a territorial map and identify community characteristics. They research the online Atlas of Canada
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Water Magic
Learners conduct experiments with ice, water and steam to observe the water cycle. They discuss substances that water accumulates from the Earth as it moves through its cycle.
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
For this seasons worksheet, students cut out the picture cards at the bottom of the page, sort the pictures and paste them with the matching season.
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Traveling the Silk Road: A Multimedia Approach
Students transfer what they have learned about China into an electronic project. In this collaborative project, students take what they have learned from their textbooks and synthesize the information in order to create an electronic...
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Fred the Fish
Students read and retell the story of Fred the Fish. In groups, they create their own story of a similar nature and identify a situation in their community like the one in the story. They create possible solutions to the problem and...