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My Favorite Story
Students share their pictures on an online database. As a class, they discuss their favorite books and why they like it. They review the elements of a story and brainstorm ideas for each category. To end the lesson, they complete a...
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Graphic Favorite Breakfast Foods
Second graders graph data based on a class survey of their favorite breakfast foods. In this graphing lesson plan, 2nd graders take a class survey of their favorite breakfast foods. Then they take that data and put it into a computer...
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Fairytale Favorites
Young scholars access George MacDonald's Fairytales website, read exerpts of pre-selected tales, select their favorite and communicate that information via the internet to another class.
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Graphing Favorite Colors
Third graders collect data and insert it into ClarisWorks to create a spreadsheet/graph of their favorite color. They interpret the data together.
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My Favorite Teddy Bear: Writing Activity
In this writing instructional activity, students look at a picture of a girl and her teddy bear, then write about their favorite teddy bear.
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Real or Painted Art -- Tromp l'oeil Art Awareness an Activities
Students are introduced to Trompe l'oeil art by a docent. Using that information, they compare and contast it with other forms of art they are familiar with and discuss their opinions with the class. They write a poem about their...
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Favorite School Activities
In this language arts worksheet, students examine the choices of favorite school activities and write a choice in the lines provided.
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A Matter of Style Activity: Furniture Design
Students study the six styles of nineteenth-century furniture. They select their favorite style, then use three design elements from this style and sketch an idea for a piece of furniture.
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Gingerbread Baby Final Activity #11
Students are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They write their own letter to the author telling her about their favorite part. They ask questions and hopefully they will receive the answers from her as well.
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Abiator's Interactive Mathematics Activities
Students use an internet resource to practice problem solving. They use the Abiator's Interactive Mathematics to complete the problem solving activities provided by the website. In addition, they write down their answers on a piece of...
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Field Day Water Activities
Students participate in a variety of Field Day Water Activities including: Waterslide:
Cheap Man's Dunking Booth:
Sponge Relay:
Sponge Race:
Water Bucket Relay:
Water relay:
Tug of War:
Squirt bottle race
Water Balloon Smash:
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Circle Graph Activity
In this circle graph worksheet, students ask 16 people what their favorite vegetable are, then create a circle graph to represent the information.
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My Favorite Things
Students identify "masterpieces" and mass-produced objects. They explain why they value a given object and determine what physical materials were used to create the objects. They create a class book featuring objects that they value.
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Time Capsule and Other End Of The Year Activities
Young scholars develop hand/eye coordination and fine motor skills as they use scissors and other materials to make a time capsule. In this time capsule lesson, students use paper, scissors, glue, and other materials to develop these...
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Activity Plan 4-5: I'm Graphing to Know You!
Students create graphs about themselves to learn more about one another. In this early childhood math lesson, students record information about one another as they make picture graphs.
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Children's March Teacher's Guide, Activity 6
Students explore the role of gender in the Civil Rights Movement. In this Children's March lesson, students watch "Mighty Time: The Children's March" and respond to the provided discussion questions that accompany it. Students create...
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4-H Horticulture/Garden Activity Page- Beginning
For this 4-H garden project worksheet set, student study the parts of seeds and plants. They make a mini-greenhouse. They complete a career scavenger hunt, tools word search, and experiment to learn more about the effect of water on seed...
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What Do You Like To Do the Most After School?-- Class Bar Graph
In this math activity, learners collaborate to make a class bar graph which will display data on favorite leisure time activities. Students survey their classmates and plot the results on the graph. Six choices are given: games, read,...
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Food, Families, and Festivals
For this festivals worksheet, students work as a group and sort pictures of food into 2 groups: party foods and everyday foods. Students then discuss their favorite foods, celebrations with foods, quantities of food, and foods for a...
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Abuela's Weave Teacher's Guide
Students read and response to the book, Abuela's Weave. In this African-American literature lesson, students discuss pre-reading questions, that focus on family traditions and make predictions about the text. Students read the text and...
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Three and Four
In this number coloring activity worksheet, students draw the number of acorns for each squirrel according to the number in the box. Students color the squirrels with three acorns brown and four acorns by their favorite color. Students...
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A Creative Spin on Frog and Toad All Year
Students create drawings from their favorite book with sidewalk chalk. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read Frog and Toad All Year and investigate the character known as the Ice Cream Monster. Students...
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Elements of Fiction
Students investigate themes and settings in their favorite fiction stories. In this creative writing lesson, students discuss the reasons a fictional story works well and discuss ways to create their own. Students create...
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The New Zoo
Learners explore animal characteristics by researching the animals in a zoo. For this video documentary lesson, students view the local zoo and create a documentary about a single animal they found at the zoo. Learners present their...