Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Identifying Minerals

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students compare and constrast a wide variety of minerals and rocks. They test them for streak, luster, color and other characteristics. They view an exhibit and compare their answers to them.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Doodle Splash

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars navigate Doodle Splash to create a painting.  In this doodle splash lesson, students explain their splash painting relationship to a piece of literature.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Factors

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Practice factoring numbers by using graph paper, manipulatives and computer applets.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Number Line Mathematics

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students translate problem situations into diagrams, models, and numerals using whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percents. They identify that numbers in different forms are equivalent or not equivalent using whole...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Photo Pen Pals

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students learn to write a descriptive friendly letter to a pen pal.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Patchwork Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners recognize and identify shapes in their environment. They investigate why objects can be composed of several different shapes. They follow a pattern to recreate designs using various shapes.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Guess Your Best

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discuss situations when it is useful to know exact weight of object as opposed to estimated weight, estimate weight of various items, weigh them on scale using ounces and pounds, and compare their weights on Guess Your...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Compound Word Match #3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students generate compound words by matching two word cards. Students complete 12 compound word questions. Word cards are not included here.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spy Game Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use math to solve encrypted messages.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Recycling Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students recycle old paper into new. For this sustainability lesson, students take old newspaper and recycle it into new paper.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Color Poems: Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
Unit Plan
SEDL

Sedl: Five Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...
Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, learners use the ocean and their five senses as inspirations to create their own unique haikus. Lesson provides assessment criteria and a list of sources.
Graphic
Curated OER

Five Senses

For Students 3rd - 5th
Here you can find a unit on the senses with individual lessons on each of the five. Provides activities for each lesson.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Art of Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson in how to write accurate, critical observations that involve using the five senses and unambiguous language.
Activity
Teaching Treasures Publications

Teaching Treasures: Year Five Math (Page 5)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Sharpen your computation skills with this interactive worksheet. The focus is adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators and reducing to lowest terms. Problems are set up horizontally and answers can be checked...
Activity
Teaching Treasures Publications

Teaching Treasures: Year Five Math (Page 1)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice your computation skills in all four operations using this interactive worksheet. Included are four-digit addition and subtraction problems and multiplication and division facts through twelve tables. Problems are set up...
Activity
Teaching Treasures Publications

Teaching Treasures: Year Five Math (Page 2)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this interactive worksheet for practice or assessment of basic computation skills. Problems covering all four operations are included such as four-digit addition and subtraction and multiplication and division facts through twelve...
Activity
Teaching Treasures Publications

Teaching Treasures: Year Five Math (Page 3)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive worksheet that focuses on adding and subtracting fractions. The worksheet covers concepts such as mixed numbers, reducing to lowest terms, and changing mixed numbers to improper fractions. Problems are set up horizontally...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify if each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses - sight, sound, smell, texture and taste - to identify the other characteristics of each item.
Activity
Other

Boggle's World Esl: Word Searches

For Students 3rd - 8th
A collection of more than 40 printable word search activities designed for ESL students. Searches are organized by level of difficulty (easy, intermediate to difficult) and cover a wide variety of themes, e.g., colors, verbs, the five...
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Selling Stereotypes Grades 3 5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the concept of a stereotype, and they explore the messages they receive regarding differences between boys and girls. They watch and discuss a video of a little girl questioning why companies market boys' and...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Chemical Wonders

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to chemical engineering and learn about its many different applications. They are provided with a basic introduction to matter and its different properties and states. An associated hands-on activity gives...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which young scholars identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are...