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I Can't Stop Itching
Pupils recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. After reading the story "Liz is Six," students draw a picture with a...
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Papier Mache Globe
Students use newspapers and balloons to create a paper mache globe. They define areas of land and sea with geen and blue tempera paint, then define borders with markers.
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Striking Balloons
Students strike balloons with different body parts (elbow, head, knee, wrist, shoulder, etc.) to practice their striking skills.
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Carpet Space Sit
Students explain self space so they can move safely through their environment.
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Dinofours My Seeds Won't Grow
Students listen to a read aloud, Dinofours My Seeds Won't Grow. They talk about what plants need to grow and study the parts of plants. They discuss what types of plants we eat after which they plant a seed in order to observe the growth...
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They Had a Dream Too
Students research the obstacles and daily challenges that a successful person had to overcome. They create a book or mobile based on the research.
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Animal Growth Journal
Students observe and describe animals in the local environment. They recall information about different animals they have seen. They read and discuss their favorite animal books.
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"Working in a Hat Factory"
Students analyze the understanding of what a producer is. Students distinguish between producers and consumers. Students produce a hat of his/her own. Students will share creations with each other.
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Pick-A-Phonic Picture Books
Students explore phonemes. They create a picture book when a new phoneme is introduced. Students discuss the new phoneme and words that contain the phoneme. They create phoneme books shaped like the phoneme being studied. They illustrate...
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Special Delivery
Students demonstrate locomotor skills for assessment. After receiving an envelope with a skill to be addressed, they perform that skill and receive a stamp for completion. Each student must complete all of the skills in order to...
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Patterns
Students make patterns. In this early sequencing lesson plan, students observe and state a pattern when they see one. The teacher begins be using students to demonstrate a pattern with half of the children standing and every other child...
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Pumpkin Math
Students examine a pumpkin and make several estimations based on the number of lines around it, its circumference and the number of seeds it has.
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Making Paper
Students create paper by adding a few small scraps of paper into the blender pitcher and adding just enough water to thoroughly soak paper.
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Sesame Street Letter Recognition
Students study the letters of the alphabet, explore different shapes, rhyme, and listen to the different sounds of the alphabet to help them sound out words and begin elementary level reading.
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Clothes on the Line
Students creatively move using a variety of non-locomotor and locomotor movements.
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Let's Make Lemonade Lesson 3: What's the Big Idea?
Students examine and decide on a service-learning project to perform. They design and execute posters that advertise the project using geometric shapes.
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Give It Back From a Snack Lesson 2: Invest With the Best
Students survey schoolmate as to what type of snacks they would prefer to purchase. They graph the results and apply them to planning a classroom snack sale while examining what wants, needs, and consumers are.
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Get Cracking
Students compare the life cycle of an animal hatched from an egg with one born from its mother's womb. The lesson plan focuses on dinosaur eggs. They create dinosaur eggs from balloons and papier mache.
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Jane Goodall
Students identify Jane Goodall as a scientist who studies the behavior of chimpanzees. They listen to a biography of Jane Goodall and review the location of Africa. Then students participate in an animal observation activity.
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Why is the Sea Salty?
Students conduct a hands-on activity to investigate salt concentrations in water and how salt remain after water evaporates. They can also do a Saltwater Painting to once again observe the evaporation. process.
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Teaching the Identification of Vegetables
Students engage in various activities designed to them that vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet.
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Kindergarten Shape Books
Students, in groups, identify examples of shapes around the school site. They take digital pictures of these shapes and use them to construct a class book.
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Animals in Japan
Students compare and contrast common animals children love and have as pets in Japan and America in this early elementary lesson. The culminating project is an original work of art by each student depicting an animal of their choice.
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Excavation Dig
Students engage in a role-play of a dinosaur excavation dig. They dig through sand to locate buried bones and then discuss the ethics of destroying buildings and other property to get at the fossil remains.