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Puerto Rican Parrot Paradise
Learners investigate the environment of the Puerto Rican Parrot. They visualize the ecosystem with and without information. They conduct research to find information and participate in classroom discussion to demonstrate comprehension of...
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Water and Ice
Students conduct an experiment. In this forms of water lesson plan, students observe ice to see what changes take place and then write in their journal about what they observed.
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Designing More Effective Packages
Students make an environmentally sound package. In this packaging lesson plan students examine various types of modern packaging. The problem of waste is discussed leading into a discussion of waste reduction. The students choose an item...
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Controlling Anger
In this controlling anger worksheet, learners read a list of ways to handle anger and answer a set of 13 discussion questions after watching a video. Suggestions for student activities and writing assignments are also given.
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Calder's Balancing Acts
Learners learn the vocabulary of contemporary sculpture and distinguish between abstract and realistic sculpture, mobile and stabile, biomorphic and geometric. They write equations using Calder's mobiles
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Give It a Whirl
Pupils examine and identify polyhedron shapes on a math website. They write journal reflections about two- and three-dimensional shapes, and transform a square into a pinwheel.
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Anticipatory Set Picture Walk
The teacher models a Picture Walk by using a "think aloud" method while reading a picture book to the class. On the second day, 3rd graders use a worksheet as a guide for a second picture walk. This time, students complete the "think...
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Expanded Form
Students are introduced to the concept of expanded form in a lecture and a class discussion. They write numbers in expanded form using words only, numbers only and numbers and words.
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Ten Cents a Word
Students recognize the importance of summarizing in this lesson plan. They "sum up" an article about monarch butterflies. Students practice writing summaries of the article charging themselves 10 cents/word. They try to write the...
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Reader Rabbit Math!
Students engage in an integrated lesson with a unit on inequalities.This math computer-based software lesson will utilize Reader Rabbit Math! The lesson is designed for students that are learning inequalities and basic computer skills.
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Chinese Puzzle Story
Students study the Chinese form of tangrams. They read the story, "Grandfather Tang's Story," by Ann Tompert and discuss how tangrams are used to tell the story. Using paper and scissors, they create animal tangrams and write stories...
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Proper Nouns
In this proper nouns skills practice worksheet, learners respond to 10 short answer questions that require them to identify proper nouns with the correct capitalization.
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Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20
Students act out computation problems. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students act out an addition story and write an addition sentence for it. Students continue this activity and answer the provided questions.
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Lesson Two - Compound Words
Young scholars complete activities with the book Sarah Plain and Tall. In this literature lesson plan, students read chapter two and complete attached activities. They list the compound words they find and study new vocabulary.
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What a Painting!
In this language arts worksheet, students begin sentences with phrases starting with the word "there", complete a crossword, and complete a crossword. Students complete 3 activities total.
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Introduce: The Prefix pre-
Students study language. In this word making instructional activity, students discover the meaning of the prefix pre-. They work in small groups to create a list of words that use this prefix. This instructional activity includes...
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Introduce: The Prefix re-
Students brainstorm words that have the prefix re-. In this prefix lesson, students discuss the meaning of the word prefix, define the meaning of the prefix re- and list words with the prefix on the board, discussing the meaning of each.
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Invertebrate Dribbling
Learners practice proper dribbling skills and work on identifying invertebrates as one of four major types.
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In Your Prime
Students study how to find prime numbers. They investigate the teachings of the mathematician Eratosthenes and apply his theory of prime numbers less than 100.
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Summarize Successfully
Students summarize nonfiction text. After reviewing the process for reading in order to summarize, students independently read a nonfiction article. They write a summary paragraph using the graphic organizer outlined by the instructor...
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Collecting and Pressing Plants
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the study of native plants and classifying them according to a kind. They press them into a journal while identifying them according to species. Students compile the samples into a...
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Vocabulary Test: Common Nouns
In this common noun review activity, students use their language skills to identify a common noun that begins with each letter of the alphabet.
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Division Problems with 0 and 1
Students explore beginning division. In this division number properties activity, students solve simple division story problems using cookies. Students create models that represent the identity and zero properties, then write...
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A Monster's World
Study African American inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger and create imaginary monsters using texture.