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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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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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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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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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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 activity. 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.
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Rocking Chair
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the /e/ with its letter representation and identify the...
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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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Observing and Drawing Structures of Guppies and Goldfish
Students observe fish and focus on their structures. For this life science lesson, students work in a group and observe guppies and gold fish.
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Where We Live
Students make a 'where we live' chart to find what's common and unique about where they live. For this living analysis lesson, students complete a chart about where they live.
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Autumn Learning Fun
Pupils discuss autumn. In this language arts lesson, students discuss words that are associated with the season of autumn. Pupils read books about autumn.
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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
Learners 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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Get Cracking
Students compare the life cycle of an animal hatched from an egg with one born from its mother's womb. The instructional activity 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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Outdoor Observation
Students examine their outside environment. They use their senses to make observations of the four seasons. They keep a chart of all of the data they have collected.
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Clifford Goes to School and So Do We!
Students create a Clifford headband and make a sign in the shape of a large bone that includes four rules on it as included in the lesson. They follow step-by-step directions, identify the four classroom rules, and respond that rules are...
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Living Labels
Students, after being introduced to and researching the wildlife diversity in Arizona, practice developing questioning skills while identifying the identity of an unknown animal based upon clues provided by classmates. They are given a...
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Clouds and Your Imagination
Young scholars study and illustrate clouds. In this cloud study lesson, students study clouds and then illustrate what they see. Young scholars use their imaginations to interpret images from the cloud picture they drew.
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Circle Seats
Students create large shapes to sit on during circle time. In this art lesson, students cut and decorate the shapes.