You can keep this printable idea sheet and use when you're in a tight spot. It contains cross-curricular ideas that span every subject while relating to the African tale, "Anasazi the Spider." Learners will act, write, move, count,...

Students use their creativity to build character homes. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop creative-thinking, social, language, math, and motor skills as they work together to create buildings for characters from...

Integrate art, math, life science, music, and fun in this beginning addition and subtraction activity. Children kinesthetically represent adding and subtracting numbers to 10; they stand up one at a time as you count forward and sit down...

An engaging and fun lesson on telling time is here for you. In it, young time-tellers listen to the song, "Rock Around the Clock," then use Judy Clocks to practice telling time to the hour and half hour. Finally, using paper plates, each...

Accompany a reading of First Come the Zebra written and illustrated by Lynne Barasch with a teacher's guide equipped with before reading, vocabulary, and after reading activities. Additional social studies,...

Create a cross-curricular learning experience around a shared reading of Cynthia Rylant's book Snow. From writing poetry and a singing a song about snow, to creating paper snowflakes and solving math story problems, this resource...

Help young readers find, identify, and use their voices with a set of empowering activities based on Peter H. Reynolds' trilogy of books. Sky Color, Ish, and The Dot focus on recognizing moods and treating each other...

Students make a math book. For this early childhood math lesson plan, students develop language, observation, and math skills as they explore the sizes of objects and use cameras to take pictures for their own math booklet based on...

Students read Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the life of the 20th century composer. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and...

Review the 4/4 and 2/4 time signatures in music with a helpful music theory lesson plan. Young musicians experiment with electronic sounds and create their own musical performance using instruments made from materials found in the...

Youngsters listen to the classic Jan Brett book, The Mitten, then gain strength in utilizing listening skills, developing vocabulary, practicing sequencing events, and expressing themselves through movement and art projects. This rich...

Students engage in a variety of book making activities to foster creativity, literacy, and fine-motor skills. In this book-making activity, students author a book about the days of the week, illustrating the activities that they...

Learners use their hands to bend and reshape a floral wire (line). They record this experience using crayon rubbings which become the frames for their flip book.

Students explore families and culture. In this family and culture instructional activity, students discuss their families and their similarities and differences. Students read the book The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco and create...

Young scholars create counting books. In this counting book lesson, students make their own book which counts on each page and has a corresponding picture. These books can count by 1's, 2's, 5's, or even fractions. 

Young scholars perform different activities to better explain that the word "Average" has 5 different meanings.

Learn all about Eric Carle, find out about his famous caterpillar, and try out related art, science, writing, math, and social studies activities. The resource comes with plenty of materials to support your instruction.

Young children read the story, Berlioz the Bear and complete various reading and writing activities. They learn about fiction and non-fiction, and complete graphing and writing activities for the story. Youngsters draw the bear and use...

In these Where the Wild Things Are worksheets, students complete a series of different activities for the text. Students complete addition, subtraction, math word problems, printing practice, and time telling activities.

Students investigate the parts of a book by reading a story about a dog.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students utilize their memory to place pictures from the book Harry the Dirty Dog in order from start to finish....

Learners read the story Caps For Sale and read companion stories, predict in a chart, work with rhyming and word families, answer short answer questions, and more. In this reading lesson plan, students take 5 days to read the...

Students discover together that shapes are everywhere - even in the food we eat. In this early childhood math and art lesson, students read about shapes, identify foods that match geometric shapes, and create a class book.

Students examine the concepts of geometry used by Paul Goble in his book Adopted By The Eagles. After analyzing Mr. Goble's work they create an original piece featuring symmetry, pattern, repetition, and other principles of geometry....

Fifth graders explore how people handle remainders in real life. In this remainders math lesson, 5th graders participate in skits to show what to do with remainders. Students complete worksheets with word problems.