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Calendars
Second graders read books and discuss the names of the days of the week, months, and their holidays and seasons. They discover the concept of the days in order, practicing sequencing using a pocket chart and perform a matching activity...
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Nutrition Unit
Students engage in a variety of activities designed to help them understand about the importance of good nutrition and eating healthy foods. The activities include playing food bingo, making a collage, designing posters, etc.
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Campfire
Students have fun and investigate about the nature and history through songs, skits, and other activities. They sing songs, and act out skits. Students decide what songs or skits that they are going to sing. They sit around a campfire...
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Modesto City Schools Library Lesson Plan
Students read and understand a variety of genres in a library setting. In this library activity lesson, students act as detectives and use clues in text and pictures to hypothesize the title of the missing book for the library reading...
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Life Traps - Lesson Plan
Students observe and discuss microbes. In this microbes lesson students complete a lab activity where they grow microbes in petri dishes and discuss their findings.
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Jane Goodall
Students identify Jane Goodall as a scientist who studies the behavior of chimpanzees. They listen to a biography of Jane Goodall and review the location of Africa. Then students participate in an animal observation activity.
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Picnics-- Chinese Style
Third graders explore about the Chinese rituals of poetry competition. They compare and contrast Chinese picnics with American picnics. Students create short poems, celebrating their own spring poetry picnic. They discuss words or...
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AP Biology Chordates - Birds/Mammals
Students participate in a layered curriculum units with a variety of activities like: Library Research and choose one topic. Find 2 articles on the topic, cite the article, and summarize each article.
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Brain Booster: Estimation and Repeated Addition
In this daily math problem worksheet, students complete three activities that help use estimation and solve problems with repeated addition. Students show their work using pictures, numbers, or words and may use cubes, number lines or...
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Brain Booster: Subtraction Strategy- Working Backward
In this daily math problem worksheet, students complete three activities that help them use subtraction and work backwards. Students show their work using pictures, numbers, or words and may use cubes, number lines or hundred boards for...
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Japanese Internment Camps in the USA
In this worksheet about Japanese Internment camps, students read a 9 paragraph passage about the camps, locations, and a personal account. Link to additional activities included.
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Early German Axis Successes and Failures
In this Axis successes and failures worksheet, students read about the Axis Powers and Allied Powers. Students read the dates of Axis successes, and about the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Midway, and El Alamein....
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Understanding Genres
Young scholars identify genres of literature. In this literature instructional activity, students read definitions of the various genres. Young scholars choose books and list clues in the texts that help them identify the appropriate genre.
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ESL Writing Wizard-Spelling Words
In this ESL writing practice instructional activity, students trace and write a set of spelling words on lines provided. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Silly Semi-Solids
Students create a polymer out of glue, water, and borax. They discuss the resulting substance and perform several experiments with it.
NASA
Catch a Gravitational Wave, Dude!
It is cowabunga time! Pupils read an article about the NASA LISA mission on gravitational waves and conduct additional research on them. The class participates in a science bowl type competition about gravitational waves. Panels of four...
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Black and Blue
Students create print advertisements that persuade viewers to visit African-American history museums by detailing their artistic, cultural, and historical benefits.
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On the Brink of a Mountain
Young scholars explore the political, social and economic effects of the division of North and South Korea.
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Calendar Fun
In this calendar worksheet, students use a set of calendars to answer questions about dates and days of the week, 4 calendars total.
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Friendship Poster
Learners use WordArt to create a friendship poster. In this friendship lesson, students use Microsoft Word to create a friendship poster. Learners create phrases using the WordArt program and arrange the phrases on construction paper to...
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Valentines Day Lesson
In this Valentine's Day worksheet, students will learn about Valentine's Day traditions in America. Students will learn Valentine's Day vocabulary and then practice a dialogue about Valentine's Day. Students will write a letter to a...
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Problem-Solving Application: Use Temperature: Reteach
In this temperature worksheet, students solve 3 word problems based on a model of information about a day's temperature. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Developing Friendships
Students listen to the book Friends and discuss how to make friends and the characteristics of good friends. In this friends lesson, students listen to the story and practice role playing on how to make friendships.
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Abbreviations Game
In this abbreviations activity, students play a game in which they practice writing abbreviations correctly. Players write abbreviations as words are read from index cards.