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Wonderful Water
Students identify the various states of water and its natural flow downward. As a class, students take digital pictures of different forms of water and create a multimedia presentation describing their photographs. Groups of students...
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Students communicate and express ideas through drawings that represent the stated ideas. They use a pattern book after listening to the story, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"
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ABC Book
Students create a class alphabet book. They correctly illustrate a letter with a picture using the corresponding sound. Students also read and discuss various alphabet books and decide on what theme their book will have, for example,...
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I've Got News For You!
Students explore their hometown newspaper for ideas. They create their own classroom newspaper.
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Our Five Senses
Students explore the five senses through hands-on and Internet activities.
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Locomotor License
Students examine and practice what it means to travel safely within a given space. They are given licenses and can receive traffic violations if they break the rules.
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Collecting S.O.C.K.S
Students participate in the Collection S.O.C.K.S program to protect their local watersheds. Using the socks, they plant new plants and trees around the watershed in order to protect it for future use. They also perform in a skit that...
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Making E-Books in the Kindergarten Classroom
Young scholars produce e-books using themselves and their physical surroundings to demonstrate content standards, such as number sense or color recognition. They provide evidence using a digital camera, props, and the presentation tool.
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Lousia May Alcott
Students examine the life of Louisa May Alcott. Using the Internet, they examine the types of books and plays she wrote. In groups, they compare and contrast the types of covers used on the various publishing's. They design and color...
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Counting Book
Students brainstorm theme for counting book, work in pairs to create book using Kid Pix that shows numbers one through ten, make correct number of pictures or stamps to correspond to numerals on pages, and print out pages to be bound...
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Rectangles and Squares
Students identify two dimensional shapes in the school environment. For this basic shapes lesson, students watch a video about rectangles and squares. Students find examples shapes in their classroom and draw them. Students present their...
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Relationships to Others
Students investigate aspects of a historical map drawn about 1721 by a Native American for presentation to the British governor of South Carolina, and draw maps of the classroom.
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Springtime
Students examine the use of KidPix software before making a slide show that shows their ideas about spring. They listen to books about seasonal change. Next, they draw a spring picture, write a sentence and their name on their KidPix...
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Imagination Travel
Students watch video segments on shapes and patterns. They create their own pattern within shapes.
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Seeing Shapes
Students study a variety of geometric shapes by taking pictures of items representing the shapes with a digital camera. They identify the shapes by using software to paint on the image.
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Seeing Shapes
Young scholars discover different geometric shapes such as triangle, square, rectangle, and octagon. Students incorporate the use of technology by taking pictures of shapes around their school using a digital camera.
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Shapely People
Learners create a person using various shapes and colors and then write a story about their person using Kidspiration. This is a great lesson for practice identifying shapes and writing stories.
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The Very Hungry Kindergartner
Young scholars create The Very Hungry Kindergartner books. In the books, students will write in and illustrate a page for each month they are in school.