Lesson Plan
Curated OER

BASE-ic Space Travel

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this 3-day place-value instructional activity, upper-elementary kids investigate the base 5 and base 2 systems as an introduction to exponents and powers. They create a pocket chart to help ground their understanding of bases,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the needs of their community. In this communities instructional activity, students use a decision-making model worksheet to determine what community service project they should donate to. Students count the money they...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Study of a Quadratic Function

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners factor and solve quadratic equations. In this algebra lesson plan, students play a game as the collect and graph data. they identify properties of their parabola and make predictions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Life Is a Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils investigate about cycles through games, shared readings and a shared writing activity. They play a game of Ring Around the Rosie to be introduced to the concept of "cycle."
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Cents

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a game in which they create monetary amounts using different coin combinations.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I'm a Hundred, You're a Thousand

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders put themselves in the correct place value, write the correct number on paper, and create their own place value problems. The entire class plays a game using place value necklaces. This is a fun way to practice place value!
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beautiful Birds

For Teachers K
Students engage in a instructional activity that is about birds while taking part in a variety of activities that are like the following. They play a game that is used for increasing memory while using bird pictures. Students also create...
Lesson Plan
ESL Kid Stuff

Past Tense Activities - Regular Verbs

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mantle Motions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars define vocabulary words associated with lithospheric plate motions. They create and write down a motion to act out each vocabulary word, and participate in a game of demonstrating the actions associated with each word.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building Fluency

For Teachers K - 1st
As your youngsters begin to recognize the letters of the alphabet and their correponsding sounds, there are some they will be more familiar with than others. Cement their letter associations using this quick strategy, shown here with the...
Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Social Studies Board Games

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Student-created board games are an effective in-class study tool.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The History of Scrabble

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students discover the history and rules to the classic board game, Scrabble.  In this spelling lesson, students complete a KWL chart on Scrabble and present their findings in an oral report.  Students work in pairs to reenact...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Five Number Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explain what it means to square numbers. They explain what it means to cube numbers. Students define prime numbers using their own language. They are introduced to the problem by playing one game as a class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting In the Game

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how interactive Web sites support live sports programming, and then design Internet sites that provide interactive support for a favorite television program. They present their mock ups to the class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Do You Make A Tornado?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a tornado in a bottle. In this climate and weather instructional activity, students review basic information about tornadoes and thunderstorms. Students make a tornado in a bottle and write about what they learned from...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grammar Reviewing Using A Sentence Auction

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in an auction game in which they buy as many correct sentences as they can with an imaginary $3000.  In this grammar activity, students determine which sentences are correct and buy as many sentences as...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students spin separate colors into a new color just as the Magic School Bus kids did.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Web of Life Game: Trout

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners explore the concept of food webs.  In this food web lesson, students demonstarte the connection between species.  Learners use a ball of string show how the food web works, then have a class discussion. 
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mistakes that English Native Speakers Make 1

For Students 5th - 8th
In this mistakes that English native speakers make worksheet, students identify one mistake in each of the twenty sentences that follow on the page.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

America, A Home for Every Culture

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars investigate the many cultures that are represented in America. In this American culture instructional activity, students look at the food, languages, music, and traditions that immigrants have contributed to the face of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making A Karuta Game

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Students explore the culture of Japan be creating a traditional Japanese game called Karuta. They conduct research in order to find the rules for the game and to make cultural connections. The content of the game is modified according to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

GAME CREATOR EXTAORDINAIRE

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together in groups to invent new and creative games. They also get the opportunity to teach others the games they created.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Literature Board Games

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create board games out of pieces of literature they have read. They work together to develop rules and elements of the game. They are to use as many elements of the story as possible. They play each game as a class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Day at the Ancient Olympics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how athletes from various ancient Greek city-states behaved at the Olympic Games. They conduct Internet research, take notes on a worksheet, and write a screenplay for a television drama about the Olympic Games in...