Second graders use shapes to create various fractions.  In this fractions lesson, 2nd graders define a fraction, visit a website where they make fractions using various shapes, and use a fraction square set to create and name...

In this reading comprehension lesson, students use the book "The Magic Pot," to explore many concepts including; story elements, sequencing, and phonics. Students also practice making doubles using coins and "magic pots." This very...

Using a variety of activities, kindergartners explore sorting and classification. Learners engage in an online sorting activity, read books involving classification, and create their own class book. This is a marvelousway to explore this...

Second graders complete math activities with donated seasonal treats. They estimate, count, sort, name and graph bags of treats. They can eat treats when finished.

Kids create a clown out of shapes. They work to show emotions while practicing their drawing skills. Pupils use circles, triangles, squares, oil pastels, and their imagination to draw, color, and decorate a sad or happy clown. Tip: Have...

Students discuss giving and receiving presents at a birthday party. In this social skills lesson, students practice using manners when giving and receiving gifts. This lesson also has other interdisciplinary activities that can be used...

In this counting leaves worksheet, young scholars assist EarTwiggle in counting all the leaves found within a piece of art and then place their answer in the box provided at the lower right hand corner.

First graders place some specific types of objects (e.g., shoes, favorite food) on concrete graphs and pictographs. They listen and respond to others in a variety of contexts (e.g., pay attention to the speaker; take turns speaking in a...

Students watch a video clip and complete activities to learn about division. In this division lesson, students watch a quick-time video about a Halloween candy division problem. Students use candies to create a solution to the video...

Eighth graders follow a recipe, focusing on the concepts of ratio and proportion, to mix a batch of icing. They decorate cupcakes in the form of a pumpkin.

Students reinforce AB patterns taught in the classroom and practice locomotor movements. They cut out and laminate 20 of each of the following Halloween items: bats, ghosts, Frankenstein faces, spiders, Jack-O¿¿¿-Lanterns, witches...

Pupils experiment with skeletons. In this bone health lesson, students analyze, construct, and perform comparative investigations with bones. They make inferences about the structure and function of various bones. This lesson includes...

First graders use an October calendar to trace numbers, trace letters, and identify dates as being in the past, present, and future. In this Social Studies lesson plan, 1st graders label events on the calendar in order to gain deeper...

Students create calendars. In this technology skills lesson, students collaborate to prepare calendars that include special days of the year as well as digital photograph collages.

Students explore the properties of a pumpkin. In this What's Inside a Pumpkin lesson plan, students use a real pumpkin to investigate pumpkin facts, sing a song "Five Little Pumpkins", paint pumpkin patch artwork, participate in a...

Students read the story The Magic Pot and complete language arts based activities based on the story. In this language arts lesson plan, students discuss, listen, observe, and complete language worksheets.

Students identify and reproduce simple patterns (e.g., red blocks alternating with blue blocks; clap-clap-stamp) and create and extend simple patterns using a variety of materials or actions (e.g., popsicle sticks, pebbles, stickers,...

Learners use a stamped shape image to create a piece of imaginative art. For this stamped art lesson, students use a stamped shape as a starting point to create their own imaginative piece of art that incorporates the stamped shape.

Students collect data using M&Ms, fill in charts, and write ratios and fractions for each color M&M.

Students create a monthly memory and compile it into a Kindergarten Memory Book.  In this memory book lesson, students create a monthly memory page.  Students create a graphic organizer in Kidspiration which is developed into a...

Fifth graders study the sizes of pumpkins. They measure and record the diameters of pumpkins. They create five subtraction problems and solve them. They weigh their pumpkins, record the data and select two pumpkins to make a graph of...

Learners use fitness skills to solve basic math problems.

Students receive a miniature pumpkin and proceed through several stations to measure a variety of physical properties. The data is entered into a data sheet and the mass and volume measurements are used to calculate density. They also...

Students create a supersized spider web using yarn. They weave the yarn over and under an existing web to create a new design.