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ESL Holiday Lessons: Valentine's Day
In this language skills learning exercise, students read an article about Valentine's Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30 short...
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Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Form Follows Function
Students design a chair with function in mind. In this design lesson, students design a chair out of newspaper that is strong enough to hold a "peanut ball". Students discuss how the form follows the function. This lesson includes...
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ESL: Present Simple
In this ESL present simple worksheet, students fill in blanks with the affirmative, present simple tense of verbs given in parenthesis, then use the negative and interrogative forms to complete additional sentences.
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Spiders Have Too Many Legs, Study Finds
Students explore current events by answering study questions about an article. In this arachnids lesson, students read a recently published article which discusses the importance of spiders and their 8 legs. Students answer study...
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2nd Grade - Act. 01: Exploration Tubs
Second graders communicate ideas, information, and feelings.
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ESL Holiday Lessons: National Compliments Day
In this language skills worksheet, students read an article about National Compliments Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions,...
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Vitamin A
Students explore non-locomotor movements and instrument improvisation creating accompaniments to the song "Vitamin A" in this elementary-level General Music lesson plan. The lesson plan nutrition messages links and student challenges for...
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Gerunds and Infinitives Fill in the Blanks
In this language arts worksheet, students read the definitions and usage of gerunds and infinitives. They fill in the blanks in 10 exercises that show their understanding of gerunds and infinitives.
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The Golden Age of Radio
Eleventh graders analyze popular radio shows of the 1930’s-1940’s. In this American History lesson, 11th graders examine life before television and one of the ways people entertained themselves....
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Oral Directions: Practice for the Slam
Students practice their poetry presentations. In this poetry slam lesson, students use the provided practice feedback form to prepare for presenting their poems prior to participating in their own poetry slam competition.
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Spelling It Right
In this spelling worksheet, students will read about the word endings -er, -or, and -ar. Students will learn how to know which spelling pattern to use when writing a word with one of these endings.
Facing History and Ourselves
Literature Circles: Preparing for Literature Circles through a Fishbowl Discussion
Young scholars examine the attributes of productive conversations. For this fishbowl discussion lesson, students observe a modeled discussion of a literature circle. Young scholars watch a discussion of "The Bear That Wasn't" and note...
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New Year's Eve
In this New Year's Eve worksheet, students complete activities such as read the passage, match the phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice fill in, correct the spelling, put text in correct order, unscramble...
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Ed/Ing Emotion Adjectives
In this emotion adjective worksheet, students read a situation and see how the writer feels. Each adjective is written with an -ed ending and an -ing ending.
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Intergenerational Friendships
Young scholars interview senior citizens. In this communications lesson, students read the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and discuss how to be sensitive to people of a different generation. Young scholars develop interview...
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Sayings Quiz: Talking 1
In this English idioms quiz about talking, learners interpret sayings about talking and complete sentences using them correctly.
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The Lesson: Disaster
Young scholars study natural disasters. In this Chinese and Burmese disasters lesson, students visit selected websites to discover information about earthquakes and cyclones and their devastating effect on the 2 countries. Young...
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Types of Dinosaurs
Young scholars complete puzzles of dinosaurs. They compare each piece of the puzzle to a fossil and simulate a scientist's role in learning about dinosaurs.
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LIFE CYCLES
Third graders work in cooperative groups to gather information, create their product and present to an audience. The groups use all sources of media to gather information, including electronic encyclopedias and the Internet. They use...
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Exploring the Brass Family
Third graders explore the four basic instruments of the Brass Family in the four lessons of this unit. The French horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba are inspected as students develope a familiarity with their sight and sounds.
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Pirate Fun
First graders in groups of five stand inside ship outlines drawn on the playground by the teacher. When the teacher calls out commands, such as "Swab the deck,!" students act it out,
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The Fish's Wish
Students complete the fable, "The Fish and the Fisherman" using a tree graph as a brainstorming exercise. The main goal of the lesson is to convince the fisherman to release the fish that he caught.
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Group Presentation Project
Students teach class by creating a presentation and activity for a section of the chapter on Marketing Plans and Market Segmentation. They work cooperatively in groups on different sections of the textbook chapter and use PowerPoint to...
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Drawing Lesson Improves Communication Skills
Students work in pairs to improve their communication skills through a drawing activity. They draw a figure on their papers and describe to each other what was drawn.