Bring the fun and whimsy of Beverly Cleary into your classroom with a teaching guide created to accompany the Ramona series. The guide offers several ideas for classroom use, including independent reading, reading aloud, and literature...

Get kids re-oriented to the computer lab for back-to-school. The constructivist approach in this session allows children to exert ownership of their behavior in the computer lab. Read aloud a few books about good and poor manners, as...

Get the word out about friendship, support, and a safe school community with a media literacy lesson about bullying. Young journalists investigate instances of bullying and take descriptive pictures as they compile a magazine to fight...

With puberty comes lots of changes to one's body. Scholars explore those changes with two lessons that examine the role of the pituitary gland and hormones. In the first lesson, pupils take on the role of the pituitary gland, write a...

Erase the stress and anxiety of calling in a substitute teacher with this collection of materials. From a class roster and rules, to a set of emergency activities and lesson plans, this resource includes everything...

Maintain a positive atmosphere in your math class with this fun lesson on adding and subtracting integers. After first explaining the rules for combining positive and negative numbers, this resource uses a comic strip...

Who says learning grammar can't be fun? Focusing on commonly used irregular verbs, this pair of card games helps young grammarians learn different tenses for verbs that fail to follow the regular rules of conjugation.

Compose a Valentine's Day poem! Practicing their rhyming skills, scholars follow the traditional format to create a happy poem for a friend or family member. 

Students compare and contrast rules they have in their homes and in the classroom. In this values lesson, students identify rules at home and relate to rules of other families. They list family rules, connect classroom rules to values...

Students participate in a running/concentration game on teams and learn the expectations of physical education class. This is a great first day of the year physical education lesson.

Students create a newsletter about electricity. They view a completed newsletter and discuss its information and format and research the Internet to find facts about electricity. After researching their facts, they write a rough draft of...

Teach young historians about the historical legacy of Rosa Parks with a multi-faceted lesson plan. Pupils follow stations and use journals to explore prominent events, analyze primary resource documents, and engage in interesting...

Take young geologists on an exploration of the collection of rocks and minerals that we call Earth with an upper-elementary science lesson. Through a series of class discussion and hands-on investigations, young scholars learn about...

Reinforce the concept of comparing fractions with a hands-on, two-player game that calls for a visual model, score board, and dice. Players roll dice to acquire their given fraction, create the fraction using fraction tiles, then...

Students create a list of rules, suggestions and recommendations in the target language on how to be successful in class. They appropriately use the present subjunctive forms of a variety of verbs.

Pupils create their own fossil.  In this fossil lesson, students explore dinosaurs and fossils through reading Fossils Tell of Long Ago by Aliki.  Upon completion of the story, pupils use modeling clay to create a cast. 

Young scholars discover civic responsibility and the purpose of town meetings.  In this U.S. Government instructional activity, students investigate how the government is involved with almost every decision made in a city, no matter...

Keep your kids satisfied with reward coupons for classroom-appropriate items and events. Included here are 27 different coupons for rewards ranging from pencil erasers to 15 minutes of dancing at the end of one school day.

Students explore their physical abilities by participating in a sport. For this volleyball lesson, students discover the different techniques and skills needed to play volleyball by moving from different stations with small groups....

Your learners explore growing patterns by describing, extending, creating, and evaluating practical pattern problems in this three-day collaborative unit. Beginning with concrete patterns and function tables to extend and...

Students explore the the benefits and problems associated with a barter system in the Colonies and trace its relationship to the development of interdependence that this system creates. An experience of bartering is created in this lesson.

Explore appositives, phrases that immediately follow the noun they modify, using sentence strips, examples, and collaborative learning. The class works together to identify appositives and use commas to properly punctuate them. Partners...

After learning why it is important to limit salt, fat, and sugar in their diets, divide your class into pairs or groups to complete this project. Each group will create two charts: unhealthy and healthy foods. They will cut out food...

According to the movie Wildcats, "It's the sport of kings, better than diamond rings, football!" It is also, however, the sport of severe concussions and ongoing blows to the head. In order to keep our Seahawks soaring and Broncos...