Students collect and sort rocks based on visible characteristics.  In this statistics lesson, students determine adequate sample size and categorize rocks based on characteristics.  The book Everybody Needs a Rock is read to...

Students practice fluency. In this reader's theater lesson, students practice their fluency by rehearsing a script with their group. Once the group is ready, they create a background and props and are videotaped performing their script.

Science and language skills come together in The King of the Birds. After reading, discuss the names and types of birds in the story and write given sentences to portray the difference between comparative and superlative adjectives....

Learning how numbers are put together as parts and wholes is a big step in building the foundational number sense of young mathematicians. Here, children are given a number less than 10 and are asked to find as many pairs of numbers as...

Designed to accompany a reading of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this packet includes before, during, and after reading activities. Individuals respond to questions about events in the story, match characters with quotes, and draft...

Students brainstorm example of big problems and small problems. They watch a Powerpoint presentation, were the students role played everyday social problems that they had encountered. Students demonstreate using the Friendship Bridge...

For this compare/contrast worksheet, students read a sentence about 2 different items, then write how those 2 items are the same. One example is completed for students.

In this voltage, current and resistance worksheet, students answer 21 questions about voltage, current and resistance. They find the current in batteries, they find the voltage in a resistor and they identify the voltage in circuits.

In this math worksheet, students will work with a coach to describe a group of marbles as a fraction. Students will follow a step-by-step process and notes are provided for the coach.

Fifth graders complete an analysis of the Revolutionary War through literature. After "My Brother Sam Is Dead," students create a time capsule containing items that would be relevant during the Revolutionary War. They identify key...

Students identify attributes of different geometric shapes. For this geometry lesson, students view a  PowerPoint presentation on shapes and use attribute blocks to examine the corners and edges of each shape. Students work together...

Students discuss the effects of earthquakes. In this earth science lesson, students create earthquake models and earthquake-proof buildings. They construct their own seismograph.

Learners, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...

Fourth graders examine the life cycle of a star while listening to Roy Gallent's, When the Sun Dies. They conduct Internet research and recreate a star's life cycle after viewing an animation.

Students engage in four separate friendship-building activities. They develop social skills and ethical responsibility by role playing and interacting with each other through reading, art, music and dance.

Students serve in their community. In this community action lesson, students read "First They Came for the Jews" and discuss what happened when people didn't take ethical action. Students discuss the actions they could take to help in...

Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students reflect upon the lesson of tikkun olam as they read "First They Came for the Jews." Students plan and execute a tikkun olam project of their choosing...

Students create a video animation of how Swimmy gathered his fish friends together to form a great big fish that would frighten the predator tuna away. In art class each child create a small red fish which gets displayed in the ocean...

In this size comparison worksheet, students will examine three groups of pictures and determine which picture in each group is the smallest.

In this size comparison worksheet, students will examine three shapes, determine the name of each shape and then draw a smaller version of each shape.

In this which word doesn't belong activity, students determine categories from groups of words and find the words that don't belong. Students discover nine words.

Learners complete activities to learn about the ocean food web. In this ocean life lesson plan, students discuss how the tides affect feeding, learn about filter feeders, grazers, predators, and scavengers. Learners then group the...

Students explore seashore ecosystems.  In this marine animal biology lesson, students sort photographs of various sea creatures according to their eating habits and discuss each animal's identifiable traits.  Students draw and...

In this scientific notation worksheet, students solve eight problems about the sun, the planets and the universe using very large numbers expressed in scientific notation.