In groups, pupils create their own scientific impact experiments using ordinary materials, and observe and measure results with a variety of impacting bodies and velocities.

Pupils view a PBS Nature program about big-wave surfing and participate in a class discussion about their experiences with surfing, body boarding, or body surfing. Students create a drawing based on a reading and post their art around...

Students perform activities that involve color and shape discrimination. They play games to practice memory skills. Students recognize body parts to participate in activities.

Learners create letters and words with jump ropes to reinforce language arts work in the classroom. They make a letter with their body and then with a jump rope. Students perform alphabet and spelling activities with a jump rope.

Students complete essay writing activities. In this essay writing instructional activity, students use an outline activity to learn about the advantages and disadvantages for various essay writing types. Students also break down the...

Students create the sounds of a thunderstorm with a symphony of body percussion to compose a couplet about rain using Microsoft word to publish. They are introduced to rhyming dictionaries and thesauruses and use Internet sources for...

Students explore something that they consider to be their favorite.  In this speech making lesson, students select a topic and have two minutes to prepare a speech. Students suggest three main points about their topic

Students explore art and artists from a specific country. While on a field trip to an area art museum, students choose one painting to sketch. After researching the chosen painting, students prepare a presentation in the targeted...

Students examine certain disabilities represented by children with disabling conditions in the class.  In this generic differences and disabilities lesson, students design an art project depicting one word or phrase regarding...

Fourth graders practice expressing themselves through the art of dance.  In this physical education lesson, 4th graders discuss choreography and how moving specific ways at certain times can be artistic.  Students create and...

Students explore similes and metaphors. They discuss and define similes and metaphors, identify the similes and metaphors in two poems, and create three original examples of each.

Students review the 'Inverted Pyramid' and demonstrate their ability to outline it in a published news story. For this Inverted pyramid lesson, students read an article that is out of order and decide which order it should go in.

Third graders watch a news story from three different networks in order to determine how the same story can be presented in three different ways. Next, working in small groups they create a newscast of a current event to share with the...

Students review and use the information from previous lessons about their county. In groups, they write articles for various sections of a class newspaper. They review and edit each others work and publish their newspaper using a desktop...

In this lesson students learn how to identify modes of transportation and communication for moving people, products, and ideas from place to place. Students also study the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of...

Students write a persuasive letter.  For this stewardship lesson, students discover the basic format for a formal letter and some effective persuasive techniques.  Students write a letter to bring about change in the way...

Students work on letter recognition as they play a game of tag. To get unfrozen they make a letter with their body and a free runner guesses the letter.

Young scholars read and discuss the story "John's Dilemma". As a class, they answer discussion questions related to peer pressure and responsibility. They compare a quote by Anne Frank to the situation John is going through in the...

Learners examine synonyms and practice finding appropriate synonyms in a thesaurus. In this use synonyms to make your writing vivid lesson plan, students identify the correct usage of synonyms. Learners replace incorrect...

Twelfth graders read the poem "Crossing the Swamp" and "Pipefish" then discuss the use of metaphor in each poem. They write a poem about how they feel about school using a nature metaphor.

Students discover bodies of water in the United States by investigating the Eerie Canal.  In this U.S. Geography lesson, students discuss Lake Eerie and the canal that was built in order to transport goods.  Students research...

Students examine several examples of similes and metaphors, stating what is being compared. Then each student chooses a different person from the Civil War era and writes similes and metaphors that describe that person.

Students work on fine-motor, creative-thinking and language skills as they share special photos and stories about their families with their classmates. Students create individual pages for a class book that will include drawings and photos.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students match ten pictures with their names. Seven of the terms are body parts, two are animals, and the tenth term is hat. This worksheet is intended to be used with English language learners.