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Let's Paint!
Students read "Frida" and "Miranda's Smile" and discuss these artists styles. They practice painting and compare it to what they have been taught about the drawings. Students are shown how to use tempera or watercolor paints. They are...
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Using Irregular Verbs in Simple Paste Tense
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students write the correct form of the irregular verb in simple past tense. Students complete 12 sentences. Students then make their own sentences using irregular verbs in simple past tense.
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Fall Bulletin Board Ideas
Fall is a perfect time to make colorful bulletin boards that you can use to display student work.
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The Polar Express Experience
Explore the holiday classic "The Polar Express" with a variety of activities.
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Everyone Can Benefit from Professional Development
These resources will point you in the direction of valuable professional development opportunities.
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Praire Biome Models
Fifth graders, in groups, list the physical characteristics of a biome and think of ways in which animals might have to adapt to live there and make a biome mobile ball that show the different types of habitats that shape the praire biome.
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Weather "Whys"
Students explore the weather. In this weather data activity, students collect weather data from Internet and media sources. Students graph the collected data discuss it as well as the seasons of the year.
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Kindergarteners Study the Four Seasons
Examine the weather of the four seasons, look at seasonal activities, and tell which months are part of each season with this lesson. Your class will play a game, sing a song, and write additional stanzas to seasonal poetry.
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Tapestry in the Middle Ages
Young scholars study the use of tapestry in the daily lives of those living during the Middle Ages. They design and create a weaving of their own detailing artists' use of visual language and symbols throughout history. They write a...
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Illustrate the Constellations
Learners explore space science by participating in a star identification activity. In this astronomy instructional activity, students identify different star patterns and discuss the movement of stars across the sky as the seasons...
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Hibernating Animals
Students recognize some hibernating animals and create a 'den' for them by gluing scraps on the insides and outsides of boxes. They write letters to their sleeping animals to read when they are awakened.
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Colonial Life
Fifth graders explore American colonial life. In this interdisciplinary history and science instructional activity, 5th graders participate in several hands-on activities that require them to make colonial products that involve physical...
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Temperature
Students explore the concept of temperature. In this temperature lesson, students read thermometers in degrees Celsius. Students discuss the temperature of the seasons and what clothing they might wear given a certain temperature....
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Seasons
Students identify and define the vocabulary words: summer, spring, fall, and rotation. They describe how the earth's rotation affects the seasons. Students match appropriate clothing with each season. They discuss why a particular...
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Weather And The Seasons
Students illustrate characteristics of the different seasons using digital and pen and paper drawings. They creat captions for their drawings and present them to the class. Students compare and contrast their pen and paper drawing...
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Weatherman Phil
Third graders examine the life of a groundhog and their role in predicting weather. They write a postcard or a letter to Punxsutawney Phil on the Internet.
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Plants
Third graders study the factors necessary for plant growth and how plants adapt to their environment. They examine ow different plants require different environments to thrive.
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Designing a Quilt Pattern
Learners create and color a one-patch quilt design based upon a regular hexagon. They examine quilts and photos of quilt designs, read a handout, and complete their quilt design on a worksheet.
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ESL Pre-Intermediate Grammar Worksheet- Use of "Mustn't" and "Don't Have To."
In this ESL pre-intermediate grammar worksheet, students fill in 8 blanks as they complete sentences that demonstrate the proper use of "mustn'" and "don't have to."
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Pond Animals During The Seasons
Students interact with a CD Rom to examine pond life. In this pond life lesson, students access a CD Rom entitled "Sammy's Science House CD Rom" in order to see pond life during the different season of the year. They study the associated...
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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.