University of Manchester
Thanksgiving and Being Thankful
Students share with the class what they are thankful for. In this Thanksgiving instructional activity, students create place-mats for Thanksgiving. Students discuss ways we honor and celebrate Thanksgiving. They then make a list of...
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Being Thankful
Learners generate words and pictures to show their thankfulness. In this Thanksgiving art activity, students draw various circles, labeling and illustrating the things for which they are grateful.
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Proud to Be Me Mobile
Student create mobiles to promote self-awareness and discovery. In this creative hands-on mobile lesson, students use large star patterns to create a mobile that reflects a theme they've chosen, representing something about themselves....
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Be a Manners Detective
Students fill out a sticker chart and identify behaviors for completing nice manners. In this nice manners lesson plan, students discuss behaviors that are nice.
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What A Pair! A Cross Grade Writing Activity
What a pair! Older pupils interview younger ones and use what they learn to write a short, illustrated storybook that features the youngster as the main character. The youngster responds with a thank-you note in which they identify their...
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Thanksgiving Literacy Activity
Students explore why Thanksgiving is celebrated. In this cross-curriculum lesson, students listen to the book Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes, and complete the sentence frame "I am thankful for ____." Students practice phonemic...
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Build Your Own Bug
Students create a unique bug. In this lesson plan about bugs, students use their imagination to develop a new kind of bug. Students use construction paper, scissors, glue, and crayons to make their bug. Students explore the different...
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Thankful List
Students practice using free association as a pre-writing technique as they list things that they are thankful for. They share the lists of words and apply them when they write a descriptive essay or poem after identifying commonalities...
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Family Quilts Keep us Warm
Students explore families and culture. In this family and culture instructional activity, students discuss their families and their similarities and differences. Students read the book The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco and create...
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A Big Book About Us
Students work on fine-motor, creative-thinking and language skills as they share special photos and stories about their families with their classmates. Students create individual pages for a class book that will include drawings and photos.
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Give Respect
Young learners explore what it means to be respectful. This resource includes a two page chart depicting rules for different settings at school such, as the cafeteria and the playground. What does following the rules look like? What does...
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Time Line of the Year
Students record special events and memories on a timeline of the school year. In this timeline activity, students understand the purpose of a timeline as they chart important events of the school year using photos, drawings, handprints,...
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Buggy Rides
Students go for a buggy ride. Each of them have a chance to be a rider and a horse. They need to tell their "horse" when to begin pulling by saying "giddy-up." students work together and use appropriate social skills
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Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like
Students explore philanthropy through art. In this service learning lesson, students discuss the diversity in their community and use their senses to create tolerance posters.
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Very Hungry Caterpillar Play-Doh
Students explore the concept of retelling a story. In this retelling lesson plan, students use Play-Doh to create models of the objects in Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Students use these models to to retell the events.
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Elders Predict Snow
Pupils interview Native Indians to learn their ways for predicting and measuring snowfall. In this weather measurement instructional activity, students invite a Native Elder to their classroom to tell them about how they predicted...
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Combining Technology with Literature
Students develop a picture using the computer with an education computer program. In this technology lesson plan, students draw a picture on the computer based on a book that they have read.
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Buzzing into the Community
Students participate in a community service project. For this service lesson, students travel to a group outside the classroom such as a retirement home, hospital or day care. Students perform a song and read a book with a buddy from...
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Build-A-Horseshoe Crab
Students discover many facts about horseshoe crabs. Students identify the main body parts of horseshoe crab. They explore the habits of the horseshoe crab and their importances to the ecosystem. Adaptations for younger students are...
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The Human Body: A Life-Size Model On Paper
Young scholars create a life-size paper model of the human body. They identify the major organs and state their fuction. They complete a quiz to end the instructional activity.
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A Planting We Will Go
Students explore how to transplant trees in their community. In this citizenship lesson, students construct a map of where to plant trees and then plant the trees.
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Intergenerational Friendships
Students interview senior citizens. In this communications activity, students read the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and discuss how to be sensitive to people of a different generation. Students develop interview questions and...
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Dance: Cultural Dance Festival
Young scholars participate in a folk dance presentation. In this multi-cultural activity, students and their families work together to learn and perform folk dances at a school sponsored festival. The teacher acts as facilitator, working...
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Cultural Music Festival
Young scholars participate in planning a multi-cultural community event. In this cultural music instructional activity, parents, community members, and teachers provide time, music, advertisement, and refreshments to create a community...