Get your class ready to read with this anticipatory set for Running Out of Time. Small groups each consider one thought-provoking statement. After each group comes to a consensus, the whole class participates in sharing ideas and voting...

Learners explore math functions by completing a problem solving worksheet in class. In this division instructional activity, students utilize visual aides such as marshmallows and candy to visualize the act of division. Learners complete...

Students compare and contrast different forms of communication.  In this poetry lesson plan, students focus on the ballad form and read "Timothy Winters". Students draw conclusions from the ballad and divide into groups to research...

As part of their English grammar study, language learners engage in the games, exercises, and activities found in a 13-page packet that focuses on pronouns.

Plastic math? Have young learners count and name the number of plastic items in their centers. Kindergartners match sight word cards to the number of plastics in a given group, while learning that plastics come in all different shapes,...

Students identify nouns, adjectives, and verbs from the newspaper. They create a math story problem, then create a comic strip using dialogue from words found in the newspaper.

Fifth graders engage in a tasty lesson which assist them with proportional measurements. They use a given recipe written for 12 servings, and use a chart to determine the ingredient amounts for 30 servings (or number of students in class).

Students construct and analyze paragraphs. In groups, students place given sentences in order to form a paragraph. They determine the main idea of the paragraph. Students perform activities to determine the concept of topic sentence,...

Fourth graders write down detailed descriptions of the shoes they are wearing that day. They participate in a relay descriping their shoes as they go.

Students examine the contributions of women on the international, national, and local platforms. In this writing skills lesson, students analyze a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt and compose essays that reveal how women advocate...

Students, with help of teacher, create pretzels shaped like letters. They then bake the pretzels and create words with the pretzel letters.

Students explore a calendar. In this calendar lesson, students sequence the 12 months of the year using posters with guidance from the teacher. Students recite the days of the week.