Make sound waves visible with an experiment that asks middle schoolers to build a model ear drum using plastic bottles, rubber bands, plastic wrap, and sand-like substances.

Practice using word blends and learning about word families by participating in a class game. Learners will collaborate as teams in a game by throwing beanbags onto a shower curtain with word blends on it. They will say the sound their...

Young scholars identify animal names and sounds. In this animal lesson, students look at animal pictures and practice saying their name and the sound they make. A sing-along where young scholars insert names and sounds where appropriate...

Students investigate how insects communicate since they cannot use their mouths for producing sound like humans can. In small groups, they devise a way to make an insect-like sound using body parts other than their mouths or vocal...

Students explore word fluency by participating in a language arts game. In this vocabulary identification instructional activity, students collaborate in two small teams, each armed with a fly swatter, in order to swat vocabulary words...

Through discussion, demonstration, and observation of performances by drum groups, students discover how vibrations create sounds. Through exploration students can infer that when drums are struck they make noise due to vibrations.

Radio waves are all around us! How do they transmit sound? Using an interactive, scholars examine how songs travel through the air. The resource explains the process from the radio station, to signal towers, to the radio unit. A look at...

Students explore phonetics by participating in a class game. In this alphabet sounds lesson, students collaborate in a ABC's activity where they identify a random letter, the sound it makes, and place it in it's correct spot on a mat....

Young scholars explore African american culture of the late 1950's and 60's through various primary sources including literature, music, art and others. They then prepare and conduct a mock interview and present with the class.

Students practice writing, sounding out, and identifying words with the /ch/ digraph. Students listen as the teacher says a tongue twister filled with /ch/ digraph words. They then listen to "Chip Gets a Dog" and raise their hand...

Students simulate sound effects from Katy and the Big Snow. They read and discuss Katy and the Big Snow, create sound effects for the objects in the book and practice sounding out beginning sounds for words. After sounding out the words,...

How do those nocturnal animals see in the dark? This perplexing question does have an answer. First, little ones use their sense of touch to determine the name of a mystery object, then they listen closely to identify various animals by...

Citizenship and basic human rights are the focus of the lesson presented here. In it, learners compile a basic list of human rights, then access a website in order to complete some activities that are based on rights and...

Assign each group of 3-4 upper elementary engineers to a different type of transportation fuel. A background information page is provided to get them started with researching their assigned fuel. Each group then produces an exhibit...

Teams of electrical engineers work together to develop plans for increasing electricity to a fictitious, but growing community. They consider different sources of electricity, both renewable and nonrenewable, the cost of building and...

Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act II, Scenes I and II) lacks explicit details of the murder of King Duncan, yet the author creates an atmosphere that allows us to visualize the event. Readers interpret the "Dagger Speech" by writing stage...

Students study the animal senses. In this animal senses lesson, students act out animal movements and make animal sounds. They use "see and hear" cards to play a game in which they find another child with a either "make a sound or...

Students discuss the sounds that different animals make. Then they play a listening game, using the animal sounds they've discussed.

Third graders distinguish between changes in pitch. They interpret and analyze different pitches being sounded at the same time. Students recognize and analyze a different style from a different ensemble. They listen to different melodies.

Students participate in fluency activities related to farm animals. They discuss counting sheep and view clips from the video "Babe." They create a short dialogue between Babe and Fly. They role play as animals providing the sounds...

Students sort and classify different attributes of warning signs, labels, and sounds. For this warning signs lesson plan, the teacher shows students different warning signs, labels, and sounds and tells students what each one means. ...

Getting ready for a lesson on animal adaptations can be a  lot of fun. Kindergartners will go on an egg hunt. Once they have collected all the eggs, they will open them up to reveal an image of an animal. Each pupil will act out...

Here is a terrific learning game that has pupils acting like lizards! Before the game starts, there is a class discussion on the differences between endotherms and exotherms. The main focus of the game is how each team must keep...

Students participate in a variety of shared reading and writing activities related to the book "The Big Sneeze" by Ruth Brown. They develop a list of farm vocabulary, sequence the events of the story on a graphic organizer, act out...