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The Gingerbread Person
Pupils think about what it means to be intelligent and fast (able to run)/athletic. After listening to the story, 'The Gingerbread Boy,' students write their own stories about a gingerbread girl and a female fox.
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Those Convincing Commercials
Second graders study commercials and determine which cereal they feel is the most nutritious.
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Butterfly Life Cycles
Students study the butterfly life cycle. In this interdisciplinary life cycles instructional activity, students study the life cycle of a butterfly, their migration habits, and the culture of the region in Mexico where butterflies...
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Gingerbread Baby
Young scholars explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Young scholars also make art projects, dramatize...
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Preventing Forest Fires (Elementary)
Students complete activities to learn about the importance of fire prevention and protecting the diversity of the forest. In this forest protection lesson plan, students discuss forest fires and work in groups to research the species...
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Is It Recyclable?
Students bring to school five items they would normally throw away and five items they would normally recycle. Expert groups are formed to present information on the recycling of glass, metal, plastic, and organics such as paper and...
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Peanut Butter Broccoli
Fifth graders explore food production by viewing DNA presentations. In this genetic engineering lesson, 5th graders discuss the foods they typically eat at home and how many common foods are engineered in a way that can produce a bigger...
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Rock, Paper, Scissors
Fifth graders explore genetic traits. In this genetic traits instructional activity, 5th graders investigate dominant and recessive traits. Students identify similar traits between a parent organism and its offspring.
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Roll With the Punches: What Do You Know?
Students activate prior knowledge about life in the South during the Great Depression in preparation for reading the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
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Naming Numbers Through Hundred Millions And Comma Placement
Fifth graders name numbers through the hundred millions place and demonstrate where to correctly place the commas. Using a car place value line, they park cars with numbers on them in the correct place value spot. Students also read...
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Begining Reading: Antonyms
Students create and play a game called Antonym Match-up. They create twenty cards with ten pairs of antonyms. In pairs, They mix up the cards and compete to see who can match all of the pairs the fastest. A video segment from the...
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Threatened, Endangered & Extinct Lesson Plan
Students examine the basic needs of living organisms. In this science lesson, students study ecosystems and discover that organisms have basic needs that must be met.
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Sudan Surprise
Students consider animal migration patterns that have been recently documented in Sudan. They investigate the migratory patterns of animals and discuss how human conflicts and activities affect migratory wildlife populations.
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OBSERVING THE ROLES OF MALES AND FEMALES IN THE NURTURING OF THE YOUNG THROUGHOUT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Students watch animal videos to identify and compare the male/female roles of different species of animals. They draw conclusions and compare those roles to those of humans. They discuss how the human male/female roles have changed...
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Lihitraot Lot! Avraham and Lot Separate -1
Students study Bereshit 13:5-11, in preparation for acting out the texts' events in the next lesson.
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Dream Killers
Third graders explore figurative language in Jacob Have I Loved and define what is a dream killer.
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Turtle Sightings
Third graders research turtles and the ways they have adapted to their marine environment. They work in groups and publish their findings using SiteMaker a web-authoring tool.
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Science: Exploration Tubs
First graders develop skills of scientific inquiry. They determine which objects float and which sink.
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Living Longer
Students practice strategies that can be applied to current and future reading materials. Using a matrix, students monitor which strategies they have mastered and which strategy needs more practice. Students read health related materials.
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale : The Instruments of the Orchestra
Students classify the classes of instruments of the orchestra: strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion. They aurally and visually identify the instruments of the orchestra. Students become actively engaged in live performances by...
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It's Alive! Or is it?
Students differentiate the characteristics of living and nonliving things. In this life science lesson, students compare and contrast robots and living things. Given an object, they decide whether it's is living or not and defend their...