Students investigate and explore common objects to discover and identify their parts. They also are encouraged to discuss the need for specific parts and what happens when a part is missing from the whole.

Students participate in a teacher lead teacher activity. They sit in a circle while the teacher places four ABC cards down and has a student identify the missing letter. After the demonstration, they are broken into small groups to...

Third graders name and identify three body parts of an insect, identify the characteristics that insects have six legs and one pair of antennae and categorize insects as to whether they are helpful or harmful.

Students summarize a selected piece of nonfiction text as a group. After reviewing the instructors preferred method for summarizing information by identifying the main idea and supporting details, groups write a summary paragraph of a...

Learners identify the bugs collected from the pond. In this biology lesson, students observe the living and nonliving organisms in the pond environment. They write a reflection about why nature is important and must be preserved.

Students examine memories and the importance of memories to the people of all ages that make up a community. They explore the definition of philanthropy and identify an act of philanthropy in the literature. The book, 'Wilfrid Gordon...

Learners identify philanthropic acts in the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird". They create a box of items that were found in the tree from the novel as well. They write journal reflections based on philanthropic acts they have done in their...

Young scholars identify the types of light on the visible spectrum. They identify relationships between angles and mirrors. They state how they use light in their everyday lives.

Learners identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...

Students are read a short book "Time Train" by Paul Fleischman. Using the text, they identify the clues to let them know the train is traveling back in time. They make a time line of the trip and make a cutout of meat-eating and...

Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies to improve their reading speed. They observe the teacher model a book talk for the book "Just My Luck," and observe the teacher modeling how not to read. In pairs they time each...

In this verbs activity, students examine 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students read the sentence with the missing verb and from 4 choices, select the correct word.

In this 2-day lesson focused on exponents, middle schoolers will cross the curriculum by engaging in science, history and language arts activities. Exponential growth will be explored using grains of rice on a chess board. Exponential...

In this patterns and sequencing learning exercise, 9th graders complete 30 math problems that involve patterns and rules. Students must read information as they work through the math problems.

Young scholars play an easy card game that reinforces skill such as: basic number recognition, greater than or less than, and odd or even number.

Food always gets attention! Model atomic structure using fruit loops to represent the subatomic particles. After building models, scholars create ionic bonds using their models. Finally, they use these concepts to create a periodic...

In this organic chemistry worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice problems about organic reactions, they write the molecular structures for the products of 20 reactions, they answer 10 short answer questions about specific groups of...

Adolescence is a tumultuous time for the learners in your class. Guide them through the rocky world of friendships, risks, personal health, and emotional turmoil with a set of lessons about teenager relationships and sexuality.

Sixth graders research how minority groups are represented in media. For this media literacy lesson, 6th graders investigate two YouTube clips of Hugo Chavez and discuss different points of view.

Fourth graders investigate the terms "factor" and "product." For this mathematics lesson, 4th graders practice solving problems to find the products and factors present in different algebraic expressions.

Learners explore two- and three-dimensional shapes.  In this very busy spider lesson plan, students read the story and then create a spider web pattern of their own. The webs must use a symmetrical pattern.  Additional...

Students collect a variety of objects that represent a family memories. The objects are and the variety of family experiences that they represent are shared with their classmates. Speaking, drawing, and writing activities ar4 developed...

Slow and steady wins the race? In the assessment task, scholars calculate the rates at which different snails travel in order to find the fastest snail. Hopefully, your class will move much more quickly in finishing the task!