In this nouns worksheet, students rewrite 20 sentences. Students fill in each blank with a noun from the word box given. Students are also reminded that a noun is a person, place, or thing.

Fifth graders develop a common currency. In this colonial currency lesson, 5th graders exchange beads, rice, coins, and paper bills for goods and services. Students explore web tools to research ways colonists used money, even if it was...

Students model a food web and create a miniature ecosystem. In this animal interactions activity, students engage in a role playing game which simulates a food web. Students then build miniature ecosystems using pop bottles, snails,...

In this interactive vocabulary activity, 3rd graders read various descriptions of places and select the appropriate name of the place. For example, for the description of a place where you can see different kinds of fish the students...

Using the number of days they have been in school, learners practice fining sums by adding ten, subtracting ten, and determining even and odd numbers. They write equations and build numbers with the fewest number of base ten blocks.

In this grammar worksheet, 5th graders create sets of cards which are grouped into 20 parts of speech. In each group there are about 60 cards with nouns, verbs, conjunctions, question words and other categories of words. There are...

Counting from seven to twelve in French is the foundational skill of a lesson from the BBC. Learners respond in French to the question, "How much is that?" (Ça fait combien?). The "Notes" and "Reinforcement" sections have inventive...

A simple P.E. activity will get young athletes running, jumping, hopping, skipping, and crabwalking! These locomotor movement exercises are a great way to build up aerobic endurance. Your students will ask you to play this game again and...

Not a lesson plan, per se, this webpage offers some activities to help your young French language learners pose and answer the question qu'est-ce que c'est? My favorite: kids take turns choosing objects out of a box and guessing what...

What are the elements of a personal narrative? Get your class talking by reading "The Necklace" and "A Dangerous Game." The lesson plan focuses primarily on defining certain vocabulary terms (like context clues, plot, conflict, climax,...

Students use web technology to investigate ancient Greece and the Olympic Games. They explore the history of the Olympics. Students make connections between Greek and English. They make and record a persuasive speech and write a...

In this Hour of the Olympics crossword puzzle, students complete a 12 clue puzzle using words about the ancient Olympics.

Engage emergent readers with colorful monster animations as they practice sound-letter correspondence, develop phonemic awareness, and gain new vocabulary.

After completing Chapter 5 of Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, readers make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to Victor Martinez's novel by crafting journal entries addressing comments and questions to characters in...

Positive thinking can be powerful. The exercises on these worksheets will encourage class members to be creative, resourceful, and optimistic. 

Make electricity flow through Play-Doh. Individuals create animals or other creatures using Play-Doh. The engineering aspect? Eyes that light up and Play-Doh that conducts electricity.

Pupils correctly build new words by adding a prefix and/or suffix to existing base words.

Students practice working together as a team while playing both offense and defense.

Fifth graders examine the strengths of the colonists and the British. In this American Revolution lesson, 5th graders participate in a tug-of-war game that requires them to consider the strengths of the colonists as well as the British...

Students practice sorting books. In this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, students sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...

Students make something that will last forever. In this art lesson, students make a handprint out of clay.

Students create an art project using glue and food coloring. In this art lesson, students are given a piece of wax paper and glue is poured in the middle of the paper. Finally, food coloring is dripped on one drop at a time with the...

Students explore the sense of hearing. For this 5 senses lesson, students consider how humans and animals use the sense of hearing along with their other senses. Students discuss the body parts responsible for the 5 senses and...

Students investigate rivers. For this geography lesson, students work in cooperative groups to read about rivers from articles they have collected. Students form questions using Bloom's Taxonomy as a guide.