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Take Note: Five Lessons for Note Taking Fun
Students practice note-taking skills through a variety of activities and exercises.
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Lost Worlds
Learners, while using the strategy of identifying the main idea and supporting details, explore the three nonfiction selections of the lost worlds of Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains, Great Zimbabwe, and Anasazi. In addition,...
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Cover Letter/Letter of Introduction Writing
Students compose cover letters. In this writing skills lesson, students follow the provided steps to write cover letters that introduce them to potential employers.
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Frankenstein
Students use an outline of the story "Frankenstein" to identify mistakes in English. They practice making corrections to make the sentence correct. They answer questions to end the lesson plan.
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Comprehending the Comics
Students discuss and examine the comic strip section in newspapers. They compare and contrast themselves and others with the comic strip characters. With partners, they select a comic strip and complete a student activity sheet.
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U.S. President: Facts
Students gather information from a chart. They become familiar with the names of the presidents of the United States. They complete a worksheet imbedded in this plan on the many facts associated with the Presidents.
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Author Study
Learners work collaboratively to create PowerPoint presentations on an author of their choice. This activity is written for a first and third grade joint project with students pairing up across grade levels.
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No Joke - My Voice Counts!
Young scholars respond to cartoons. For this social and cultural issues lesson, students examine how cartoons can be used to get a message across to the reader. After examining numerous cartoons, young scholars create their own cartoon...
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Wwf Activity on Exploring Feelings
Students explore feeling about the natural world and how those feelings are being affected by human action. They write poetry after viewing images of swallows in action and listening to poetry about the birds.
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Learning New Definitions
Learners are introduced to new vocabulary. Then they are to guess what the words mean without using a dictionary. They organize words into a graphic organizer.
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Jimmy's Rules
Students analyze the major theme in the story, "Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash" to change the outcome and design a rule that changed the outcome of the story. The importance of rules and their differences formulate the basis of this lesson.
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Block the Sun, Not the Fun
Students discover ways to protect themselves from the sun. They identify diseases that are caused by too much sun exposure. They take a quiz and measure their progress throughout the year.
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Writing with Writers
Students participate in Writing with Writer's, a step-by-step set of directions aimed at improving different genres of student writing. They identify the characteristics of different genres and follow a specified writing process to...
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Total English Intermediate: The Best and the Worst...
In this comparative and superlative worksheet, students review their grammar skills as they correct the mistakes in 8 sentences and list their create their own sentences using comparatives and superlatives.
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Play House
Learners explore U.S. government by participating in a role playing activity. In this House of Representatives instructional activity, students discuss the first day of congress and the role the House plays in running the United States....
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How Logical is Garfield?
Third graders analyze comics found in the newspaper for samples of logical, emotional, and ethical appeal. They write a paragraph for each selected comic strip explaining how the comic strip represents the use of logic, emotions, or ethics.
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RIGHT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Students learn the importance of fairness and come up with strategies to create this type of environment in their classroom.
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Research - Roald Dahl
Learners listen to one of Dahl's poems or complete one of his books. They then research using the official Roald Dahl website and navigate some of the areas to familiarize themselves with some of the content to enable them to answer...
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Remembering How to Remember
Young scholars develop study skills related to creating a better memory. This instructional activity has the intent of giving the teacher and student information about memory and comprehension. It can be used in the lower and upper grades.
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Punctuation Lesson Plan
Students discover how to punctuate a sentence properly. In this punctuation lesson plan, students participate in an interactive whiteboard lesson plan to demonstrate how to punctuate a sentence. Students demonstrate how to use periods,...
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Spelling For Homeschool
Students use their spelling words in a variety of ways such as repetition, spelling puzzles, and spelling sentences. For this spelling lesson plan, students do a spelling activity for each day of the week.
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Using Suffixes -er, -or, -ar To Make Nouns
In these grammar worksheets, students will circle nouns and verbs, fill in blanks with suitable verbs, add -er and -or to verbs to create nouns, write silly sentences using nouns that end in -ar, add the correct suffix to change verbs...
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Adventures in Alice
Students create a haiku and illustrate it on the computer. In this haiku lesson plan, students review the history of the haiku while they are outside and then write their own. Students then use a computer program to illustrate their poem.
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Winterdance
In this chronological order instructional activity, learners put story events in order that they are given. Students put 7 events in chronological order.