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Character Education: Perseverance
Sixth graders develop long term finance goals and understand why they are important. In this character education lesson, 6th graders compare the benefits of perseverance versus impulse spending. Students set five personal goals.
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Sum It Up!
Students practice summarizing information from a reading using their own words. They take notes while reading using a guided worksheet. For the written summary they have a budget of two dollars with each word used costing ten cents.
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Go Fly a Kite!
Students study kites. In this social studies instructional activity, students discover the history of kites and what kites are made of. Students create their own kites to fly.
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Words In the News Carnival Celebrations
Students complete vocabulary building and verb tense activities before reading an online article. They complete worksheets and an online quiz before writing a story about a hypothetical situation in which they have money stolen.
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Parts of the Body
Fifth graders create a quiz. In this parts of the body lesson, 5th graders identify and illustrate body parts. With a partner, students create a quiz on the terms used during the lesson.
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Foods and Beverages
Learners practice ordering food in a new language. For this food vocabulary lesson, students utilize the information from their previous lesson to create entire conversations about going to get food, as opposed to just the...
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Ad Awareness from Admongo.gov
Students explore mass media by completing worksheets in class. In this consumerism lesson, students discuss the meaning behind advertisements and how they are used in television, the Internet and print. Students analyze a group of ads in...
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Stamp It!
Students explore environmental issues through art. In this stamp lesson, students use preconsumer waste paper and colored pencils to create rubber stamp designs. This is an environmentally safe lesson.
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Greetings
Young scholars participate in greeting new people. In this greetings lesson, students greet people after modeling by the teacher. Sample rituals include, "Hello, how are you?; My name is...What is your name?". Young scholars...
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Day Two: Greeting and dialogues
Young scholars practice greetings and dialogues in English. For this ELL lesson, students watch a silent video with people greeting one another and make predictions about what they are saying. They write dialogues and share them with a...
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The alphabet
Students write words that the teacher spells out orally. In this alphabet lesson plan, the teacher signs the words to music and the students write them down.
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Days of the Week
Students write important days and dates that are important in their family. In this dates lesson plan, students share these dates in small groups and use the calendar if needed in their language.
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Favorite Activities
Students discuss which activities they like and which they don't like. In this instructional activity about favorite activities, students discuss their favorite activities and which activities they dislike. The class conducts a survey to...
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Other People's Likes and Dislikes
Students read short texts and discover people's likes and dislikes. In this likes and dislikes lesson plan, after reading the texts, students sort these people according to their interests.
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Day Five: Classroom Presentation
Students participate in classroom presentations. In this ELL lesson, students present a poster, collage, or PowerPoint to their partners. The teacher evaluates each presentation.
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Speed Dating
Students describe their personalities and characteristics to a partner using short sentences or short oral paragraphs. In this short sentences lesson plan, students use a speed dating format.
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Day One: Talking about food items
Students discover new English vocabulary words for food items. In this ELL lesson, students look at grocery store ads and menus to find new vocabulary words for food. They work with the teacher to create a story about a situation in...
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Talking about Food, Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Students explore foods. In this nutrition lesson, students chorally respond to questions about a kitchen PowerPoint, complete a Venn diagram about breakfast and lunch foods, and play a food Bingo game.
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Day Three: Reading menus; writing letters
Students practice English vocabulary in menus and food items. In this ELL lesson plan, students look at pictures of people eating and describe what they are doing. They talk about the food that they like and dislike and describe...
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Day One: Dinner foods and beverages
Students learn English vocabulary for dinner foods and beverages. In this ELL activity, students create a list of healthy foods and discuss good food habits. They discuss healthy activities and exercises.
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Food Preferences and Healthful Eating
Students discuss healthy eating habits. In this food preferences instructional activity, students read a scenario about teenagers visiting a restaurant. Students role play the story and complete a graphic organizer.
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Discussing One's Health
Students explore common health issues. For this health and literacy lesson, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations. Students prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues are...
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Advice, Encouragement, Discouragement
Young scholars create a fitness schedule for a famous person. In this advice, encourage, discourage lesson, students ask questions to determine the best fitness schedule for a person. Young scholars relate this activity...
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Day Four: Surveys and results
Students use expressions of frequency in the English language. In this ELL lesson, student survey their classmates and turn the information into a class bar graph.