Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Characteristics

For Teachers Pre-K
Students investigate biology by completing a group classification activity. In this animal characteristics, students discuss the different families in the animal kingdom and the small differences that separate the animals. Students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rain Forest Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars create a book about animal species found only in the Amazon rain forest. They find one species to represent each letter of the alphabet, and write each name on a different piece of paper. They illustrate each page with an...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shapes, Patterns, and Plants

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students imagine they are animals in the Palace Facade painting. In this Palace Facade lesson plan, students observe and discuss the geometric and organic shapes in the painting shown to them.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Peaceable Kingdom

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students examine the life and works of Edward Hicks. Using his "Peaceable Kingdoms, they create what they believe to be their own peaceable kingdom. They compare and contrast the two kingdoms and practice layering colors with colored...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Amazing Animal Facts

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this unique animal association worksheet, students match up ten animal facts with ten pictures of various animals shown on the worksheet.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bound for Britain

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discover the great immigration to the United Kingdom by examining historic photographs.  In this world history lesson, students research the migration of West Indians to England in the early 1950's.  Students read...