Students understand that sorting helps find things at a later date. For this sorting lesson, students use a website game and sort the common items. Students sort folders and other classroom items. Students discuss how sorting helped them...

In this comma worksheet, students are given ten sentences and must determine whether the sentence is correctly written. Students must correct the sentences and identify nonessential information.

Students explore phonemes and letters. They examine the beginning sound /m/. They read "If You Give a Moose a Muffin." They listen for m words and discuss the shape their mouths make when saying the sound m. Students identify pictures...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /a/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter A. Students then listen to pairs of words and identify which word in each pair contains the...

Students identify the letter "m" and its sound in this lesson. They identify foods that contain the /m/ sound by making a "m" sound. They then listen to the story Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon and identify the /m/ words in the story.

Seventh graders discuss traits, traits that are inherited and how genes and chromosomes carry the code for traits. They research genetic disorders and their link to chromosome abnormalites and write a report on their findings. which...

Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken and written words as well as by symbol. They interact with the book, "The Cat Nap," from Educational Insights and the Dr. Seuss book, "ABC's Book." Each student also plays a memory...

In these code breaking activity worksheets, students complete 9 pages of activities for math puzzles and code breaking activities.

Pupils assess how to recognize phonemes that stand for letters creating spoken words utilizing the short vowel /e/. They associate our written language as a secret code to solve. The tongue twister "Everybody saw Eddie and the Eskimo...

Students explore the letter /k/ in this lesson, and identify the /k/ sound in words. They read a tongue twister emphasizing the /k/ sound, and discuss that two letters make the /k/ sound - c and k. They then practice writing k's and...

Pupils practice recognizing the connection between phonemes and letters with an emphasis on finding the short vowel /i/ in words. They each receive a Elkonin letterbox and a picture card with icky-sticky gum on it and the letter i.

Students study the Green Cross Code. They determine that there are specific traffic rules for pedestrians, just as there are for other road users. They think about the rules they would need to follow to obtain a 'pedestrian's license'...

Students identify the /e/ sound in spoken words in this lesson. They say a tongue twister with words emphasizing the short /e/ sound. They then listen to the story "Peg the Hen" and do an "I Can't Hear You" motion whenever they hear...

Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...

Fourth graders investigate how outlining can aid in comprehending text. For this reading comprehension lesson, 4th graders outline an article they read in groups of two. Students take turns reading the article, identifying the main idea,...

Students compare the differences between bilingualism and registers of discourse. They investigate how economic, historical and interpersonal relationships affect language and relationships.

Students describe food cahins and the role of organisms. Using a set of organism cards, they color code the organisms on their cards by their role in the food chain. Once a complete chain is identified, they glue it on a sheet of paper.

In this math worksheet, students examine 14 problems inside geometric shapes. Students solve the simple addition or subtraction problems and color the shape blue if the answer is even and red if it is odd.

In this primary source analysis worksheet, students analyze colonial New York slave laws. Students respond to 4 short answer questions about the laws.

Students discover the Sieve of Erathosthenes. They explore a method to find all the prime numbers in a group of numbers. Using models, students practice divisibility rules while examining the difference between prime and composite numbers.

Sixth graders make an electrical switch. In this electricity lesson plan, 6th graders will make an electrical switch, a series circuit, and a parallel circuit. They explain an open and closed circuit and give examples of  series and...

The details and definitions of Biotechnology and genetic engineering are very useful, but this is a very long PowerPoint with no images or ways of breaking up the information. The slides are nicely composed and relevant, so this could be...

Young scholars pick out the sounds and -ck written in words. They are taught how to correctly say the sound with their mouth and read Hickory Dickory Dock. Words with the ck sound are underlined for the student's to notice. As an...

Being able to distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e is an important skill. Young readers are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that makes the long vowel sound. They practice reading and identifying a...