+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apple Estimation: Percentages & Subjective Reasoning

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners practice using their estimation skills by utilizing apples.  In this percentage lesson, students utilize a scale and an apple to discover the percentage of each bite they take.  Learners share their data with the rest of the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fact and Opinion: How to Tell the Difference

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore reasoning by completing a worksheet activity in class. In this fact vs. opinion lesson, students identify the differences between a personal opinion and something that is factually true. Students identify several...
+
Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Conversation Skills

For Teachers 1st - 12th
It is so important for learners with multiple disabilities to learn how to communicate for both social and functional reasons. Each child will choose a topic from the list and generate five questions related to that topic. They'll split...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Counting Blood Cells

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners observe number sense by participating in an estimation activity. In this blood cells lesson, students identify the importance of blood cells in the human body and discuss how tiny they are. Learners utilize paper dots as a...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Build Complex Sentences

For Students 2nd - 5th
Learners practice building complex sentences in this sentence combining-like exercise. Two simple sentences are given; your writers must make one reasonable complex sentence out of each pair using the conjunction provided. Ten examples...
+
PPT
Curated OER

Standard Punctuation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Clear up the confusion that comes with the question, do I use a comma or a semicolon? This presentation provides examples and reasons for using particular end marks, apostrophes, commas, or semicolons. Information is presented in a well...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Coordinating Conjunctions

For Students 4th - 6th
For this coordinating conjunctions worksheet, students identify independent clauses and determine usage as showing agreement, disagreement, or reason. In this multiple choice, fill in the blank, and short answer worksheet, students write...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Four Color Map

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore geometry by completing a color puzzle. In this shape identification activity, students utilize deductive reasoning to complete a Google SketchUp puzzle with trapezoid, triangles and rectangular shapes. Students complete...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Do You Choose Snacks and Other Foods?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions.  In this personal health lesson, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations.  Students complete the "Rate That...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Performing a Play

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students discover logical deduction by participating in a play.  In this reasoning instructional activity, students act as characters from a play who's words must be analyzed to see if they are true or not.  Students perform parts of the...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Possibility / Impossibility in the Past

For Students 4th - 6th
In this possibility/impossibility in the past tense worksheet, students read for information and use could have and couldn't have to practice usage and logical reasoning. Students write fourteen answers.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Colors and Shapes

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the natural characteristics of animals by completing a coloring activity.  In this animal properties lesson, students investigate the reasons different animals have specific colors, and how it is essential for their...
+
Unit Plan
Curated OER

The Fisherman and His Wife

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Engage conversation and explore the journey as you challenge young readers to interpret the german folktale, "The Fisherman and His Wife" written by literary brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Transitions 2

For Students 4th - 7th
In this writing transitions learning exercise, students sharpen their writing skills as they read several examples and they rewrite 7 sentences using therefore, consequently, as a result, thus, and for this reason appropriately.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's In a Name?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore onomastics. In this baseball history lesson, students create their own team name and explain the name they chose. After choosing a team name students support their choice with revelant reasons and be able to discuss...
+
Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Silly or Sensible?

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Is it silly or sensible? That's a great question, and it's the question that will drive this entire lesson. Learners with special needs and visual impairments work together to analyze verbal information. The instructor makes a statement,...
+
Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

What Would You Do If...?

For Teachers 1st - 12th
What would you do if...? That's a great question, and, when posed to learners with visual impairments, a question that can foster concept development and speaking and problem-solving skills that relate to real-life situations. The...
+
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Expand it! Writing Complex Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Instruct your pupils to make those simple sentences complex! For this exercise, learners are given eight pairs of complete sentences and subordinating conjunctions. It's their job to transform each sentence by using the subordinating...
+
Writing
Curated OER

Scent-Inspired Composition

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Our sense of smell has a wonderful way of bringing back memories. Unlock those memories with an olfactory-inspired writing prompt that challenges writers to tell a story about a specific smell and the memories it conjures.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elements of Fiction

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils investigate themes and settings in their favorite fiction stories.  In this creative writing lesson, students discuss the reasons a fictional story works well and discuss ways to create their own.  Pupils create their own...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Coyote Population: Kansas Prairies

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students discover animal lifestyles by researching their ecosystem. In this animal statistics lesson, students research the geography of Kansas and discuss the reasons why wild animals survive in the open Kansas fields. Students complete...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Fastest Pig in the West in the Classroom: Chopstick Tax

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore Chinese culture by reading a story with their class. For this Chinese economics lesson, students read a chapter from the story The Fastest Pig in the West and define the chopstick tax that was enacted in China. Students...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Saving Strawberry Farm

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore U.S. History by analyzing the Great Depression. In this economic instability lesson, students read fictitious accounts of a farm dealing with the loss of a Strawberry Farm and discuss the reasons behind the loss....
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cause and Effect with "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore reasoning by reading a book with their classmates. In this cause and effect lesson, 4th graders read the children's story Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and discuss the story elements, characters and plot....

Other popular searches