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Blooming with Self-Confidence

For Teachers 1st
First graders read "Leo the Late Bloomer" and discuss what it feels like when they are struggling to master a new skill. They make flowers showing several things they all ready know how to do and one thing they are still learning.
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As the Earth Turns

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore why the sun and moon seems to disappear and reappear creating day and night.
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Places, Places, Everyone

For Teachers 1st
First graders play the game Show Me and use math software to practice place value.
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Color Me Green If I Am a Five

For Teachers 1st
First graders count by 5's to 100. They use a number chart to identify and mark all numbers ending in five or zero. They use the charts to participate in choral counting.
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Television Schedule Time

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners consider the concept of elapsed time by examining television schedules. They list five television shows and highlight them in a newspaper, marking down the beginning and ending time of each show. They use clocks to figure out...
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Morning Message

For Teachers K - 1st
Students point to words in the morning message as it is read, then illustrate a printed copy of the message. Each page is added to a book of collected morning messages.
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Walk into the Desert, A Line and Wash Landscape

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss a landscape art print and its composition. They create a landscape underdrawing with foreground, middleground and background as well as repeated elements for rhythm. They add a watercolor wash and lights/darks for...
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Fickled Fractions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore which fractions are made real in our world. They also show the relationship of cross multiplication and equivalent fractions To reinforce fraction skills.
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Introducing Temperature Measurement

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read a thermometer, associate weather conditions and seasons with temperature changes and keep a record of daily temperature.
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Country Mouse, City Mouse?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize the characteristics of a rural area. They analyze land use to determine whether the map is of a rural (country) area or an urban (city) area.
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Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars demonstrate their understanding of the traditions surrounding Rosh Hashanah (food, shofar, "casting off").
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Halloween

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore the history of Halloween and what people do at Halloween. Also, the compare Halloween with Lantern Festival and Ghosts' Day in Taiwan.
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Happy Birthday Mathematicians and Me

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students choose a mathematician or scientist born on the same day as the student and research them. They create a cube or tetrahedron and place required information on the sides (such as birth year, death yr., greatest contribution to...
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Extra Safe Lunches

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students prepare a checklist for safe, clean conditions in the school cafeteria and lunchroom. They design the school lunch menu for one day.
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Paleo-Indian Traditions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, in groups, name and describe the three traditions of the Paleo-Indian period.
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Making Patterns

For Teachers K
Pupils utilize skittles and unifix cubes to practice the recognition and creation of a variety of patterns. The created patterns are copied onto sheets and the colors are labeled.
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The One-Hundredth Day of School

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use their fine motor skills to create a pattern of one-hundred fruit cereal O's using the concept of counting by tens in order to create a one-hundredth day of school necklace.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Sequencing Lesson

For Teachers K
Students listen to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and summarize to story to demonstrate comprehension. They review the days of the week and create their own book.
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Talking About the Past

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice using the simple past and the present perfect. They use a timeline and practice using them. They fill out a worksheet and review it as a class.
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Balanced Literacy: Presidents

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students participate in a unit (all lessons on the same page) to explore the Presidents of the United States. They choose one President to write a mini-book about, create a puppet and an original puppet show to perform about their chosen...
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Kitchen Work Centers - Level II

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders apply the skills of kitchen equipment and management.
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Claude Monet Seasonal Painting

For Teachers K
Students discuss and examine paintings of Claude Monet. They examine the style he uses and then create their own painting based on the seasons. They also discuss the difference in the four seasons.
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Focus: "R" Is for Respect

For Teachers K
Students examine how rules are important for both individuals and groups. They discover how rules are tools so that people can live and work together.
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Me Oh Maya

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students compare basketball to Mayan ring-ball. They write a newspaper article that may have been published during Mayan times.

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