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Writing Strategies: A Writer's Notebook
In this writing worksheet, students read 12 strategies for keeping a writer's notebook. Worksheet is designed to be signed by student and parent when completed.
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Delicious Descriptive Adjectives
Students write out recipes with different adjectives then share them with the class.
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Investigating the Food Pyramid
Students examine how the food pyramid is an important nutritional tool. They classify foods and compare the number of servings per group that are necessary for maintaining good health by placing empty food containers in grocery bags.
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Feel the Music
Students identify and demonstrate a positive learning attitude. They also demonstrate responsible emotional and cognitive behaviors and identify how to communicate clearly in oral, artistic, written, and nonverbal form. Finally, students...
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Looking at French Decorative Arts: The Quest for True Porcelain
Students study the effects of production and consumption of goods on French society during the porcelain period. In this history activity students research the trade history of porcelain from Asia.
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Bird Seed Fun
Students explore the concept of role playing and imagination. In this role playing lesson, students use bird seed to imagin they are creating different dishes of food and serving them to each other. Students can mix the bird...
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Ever Changing Pumpkin Faces
Students create different faces and facial expressions on a real pumpkin using laminated black face items. In this facial expressions lesson plan, students can use the pumpkin to show feelings.
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Fun With Scissors
Students practice cutting with scissors. In this fine motor skills lesson, students cut out various shapes from colored paper. Students place their cut-outs into a bag to bring home.
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Kwanzaa Designs
Students examine designs. In this art lesson, students dribble rubber cement over paper and put paint on the rubber cement. When the rubber cement is dry, peel off cement and reveal designs which can be hung as decorations.
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Sunny Day Shadow Pictures
Students explore shadows. In this art lesson, students put black construction paper on the ground and place objects on the paper. Students leave and when they come back at the end of the afternoon the sun has faded the black paper with...
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Marine Poetry
Students identify characteristics of good poetry and compose their own. For this marine poetry lesson, students are introduced to several different types of poetry with a marine theme. After discussing the elements...
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Hamsters
Students read books, learn about the letter h, and eat apples all to learn about hamsters. In this hamsters lesson plan, students also use play dough to make hamsters.
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Hispanic Rhythmic Patterns and Drums
Students imitate rhythmic patterns created by the teacher or taken from the drum performance of "Oshossi." They study and perform some of the layered and interlocking rhythms of the drum ensembles of Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, Suriname, and...
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Thematic Unit ----Transportation
Young scholars identify and name six modes of transportation. Students name the purpose of each of the six modes of transportation. Young scholars categorize modes of transportation based on where they travel.
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Table Interpretation
Students solve problems using graphs to list and interpret data. Each student construct his or her own graph using art paper and markers. They be given a set of information to apply to their graphs and interpret their findings.
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Naughty or Nice?
Pupils practice computer skills by generating Christmas lists and communicating with Santa using the Internet.
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Painters as Musicians-CD Cover Design
Young scholars create CD cover art to project the image of the artist or what those artists might sing about.
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Class Book: What's Inside?
Students make discoveries about eggs and oviparous (egg-laying) animals. Students will have the opportunity to exercise their fine-motor skills by drawing, coloring, and using scissors.
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Let Us Be Sensible
Students describe the five senses. They perform an investigation using sensory organs associated with each of the senses. Students identify, describe and extend repeating relationship (pattern) found in common, objects, sounds and...
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4-H Nutrition, Health & Fitness: Hand Washing
Healthy habits are a must. This 4-H resource delves into the importance of proper hand washing. This could lead to a discussion of other ways to keep healthy.
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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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Reading: An Honest Boy
In this George Washington reading comprehension worksheet, students read a paragraph about the first president and respond to 12 multiple choice questions regarding the paragraph.
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All About Me
Students explore self through the completion of a creative technology project. In this self-discovery instructional activity, students create a 25 frame movie about themselves. Students incorporate images from the web and audio...
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Chucky Chickadee
Students create an original project dealing with birds. In this bird lesson, students take a virtual field trip to bird feeders around the nation. Students replicate the coloring of winter birds.