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Hearing Galileo's Whisper Across the Solar System
Learners read and answer questions about satellites. In this satellites instructional activity, students read information about Galileo's Whisper and satellite capabilities.
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Trash Collage
Students create a collage. In this collage instructional activity, students read a poem from Shel Silverstein and create an illustration to accompany the poem.
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Tree of Life Mandala Print
Students create a Tree of Life. In this visual art lesson, students explore mandalas. Students investigate the concepts of balance and symmetry while designing their own unique Tree of Life.
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Silly Sentences
Students read and illustrate silly sentences. In this sentence structure lesson, students draw illustrations to reflect the parts of one of the silly sentences. Students pictures should show all the parts of their...
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Fool Proof Printmaking
Students explore historical technology by participating in a printing activity. In this printing block activity, students identify how mass papers were printed in the past by using blocks repeatedly. Students create their own printing...
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Color Mixing Trophy Fish
Students compare colors. In this color lesson, students determine which colors are primary and which are secondary. Students investigate rainbows and create a piece of art organizing colors as they appear in a rainbow.
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Simple Machines-Pulleys
Third graders understand what a pulley is and how it works. In this simple machines, pulley lesson students experiment with broom sticks creating a pulley. Students observe how the pulley moves in its different trials.
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Personification Lesson Plans and Resources
This resource on personification provides three different approaches aimed at different levels. The first, appropriate for upper elementary, provides examples of personification, followed by an exercise that requires replacing a word in...
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Literature Review
Here's a great game that will help your class review a book or unit before an exam. Three young scholars act as judges while two teams take turns responding to your knowledge, interpretation, and judgement questions. Complete directions...
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EINSTEIN CLUB
Sixth graders write sentences showing correct usage of each word for one point per word and define the words for tow points per word. There are thirty possible points. Each day I tally the points each day and keep a cumulative score for...
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Soccer - Lesson 15 - Practice Games
Here's lesson 15 of 20 in this soccer unit. This lesson has the players practice shooting on goal from different distances. The focus is on accuracy. After a bit of shooting practice, they gather with their team and play some practice...
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Shapes and Patterns in Art and Oceans
First graders draw, cut out, and design their own fish shapes by cutting out shapes and putting them together. In this shapes and patterns worksheet, 1st graders also construct a stamp and print patterns with stamps to repeat a...
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Poetry Beyond Words: Creating Poetry with Linguistically Diverse Students
Models of and directions for how to write 20 different types of poems are featured in an NCTE resource. The introduction to each form highlights the embedded concepts. For example, tongue twisters encourage poets to use alliteration and...
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Coral Reef Geography
In this coral reef geography worksheet, students find locations of reefs on a globe or map. There are 10 instructions to follow. There is no map provided--an atlas, globe or map is needed.
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Weather Data Analysis
In this weather learning exercise, students read a data table comparing the temperature and weather conditions at three different locations. Students use this data to complete 8 fill in the blank, 1 short answer question, and one graph.
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Multiplication War
Students pair up and shuffle cards. They deal the cards out evenly and stack them face down. Both students turn over their top at the same time. They multiply the 2 cards and shout the answer. Winner puts the cards in his/her winning pile.
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Problem Solving and the Sports Page
Fourth graders create and solve sports-related word problems.
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Author of the Month
Fourth graders research authors on the Web each month in based on the themes in their reading book. They create an author booklet which includes a picture and biographical information.
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Not Just Another Native American Lesson
Second graders focus on Native Americans through hands-on crafts. They also study various Native American tales and legends, geography, and fine arts of the different regions.
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A Wolf's Tale
Third graders are introduced to the story elements of fairy tales. As a class, they rewrite the story Little Red Riding Hood, told from the wolf's perspective. Then they create a class PowerPoint of the story, each partner group creating...
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Balloon Rocket Race Track
Students discuss "How can we measure (or make it easier to record) the speed, distance or acceleration of the balloon?" They told that they are going to make a balloon racetrack. Pupils use meter sticks to accurately measure length and...
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Chemical Changes
Fourth graders examine and identify chemical and physical changes in a variety of substances. They observe a vinegar and baking soda demonstration, and a water, laundry detergent, and Epsom salt mixture demonstration. They discuss the...
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Music Favorites and Place Value
Fourth graders view CD ads and create a chart about an imaginary CD purchase. For this CD lesson, 4th graders calculate various cost connected with the CD's at the regular price and on sale. Students write a paragraph about...
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"All Men Are Created Equal"
Students identify the premise of the United States' Democracy. They list the major elements of the document. Students reflect on the inequalities of the late 1700's premise of other units. They complete a KWL chart about the Declaration...
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