Students practice galloping. In this gross motor skills lesson, students review how to jump and hop using a jump-rope and hopscotch. The teacher shows the steps to gallop and they hold a noodle and pretend as if they are riding a...

Students pick a poet to conduct research from. They read and recite one of the works of poetry. Then using critical analysis find methods of construction in order to create a similar personal poem. The poem is then posted on the internet...

In this phone conversation worksheet, students decide which 6 out of 14 responses to write down when their classmates imitate calling them to leave messages.

What would Ben do? Jumping off from the pseudonymous letters Ben Franklin fooled his older brother into publishing when he was still a teenager, young literary lovers dive into acting, writing, and addressing a local issue with wit and...

They say art often imitates life. Learners research and write an expository paper on modern dance choreographer, Alvin Ailey. They focus on describing how his life and background has influenced his dance creations. This is a great...

The Learning Network has formulated a fill-in the blank worksheet to go along with the New York Times article "Olympic Mascots Inspire Imitations". While the topic is not entirely about physical education, this article could be used for...

Students, through play and use of a Hyperstudio Stack, identify animals and the way they walk, and then imitate their movements through a game. They gain motor skills through stunts and tumbling activities. This is mainly for...

Students make choices about dance elements and organize them in expressive ways. They plan and present dance works for a familiar audience. They identify dance elements in their and classmates work.

Young scholars explore the process of voting. They study the lawmaking branch of the state government.

What letters create the /sh/ sound? Have your elementary learners study the sound, write different words that use the sound in their letter boxes, and read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! After this mini-lesson, can your...

Students reenact a popular book while using their outdoor playground as the stage. In this dramatic interpretation instructional activity, students follow oral narration to act out events in a story. They use monkey bars as the setting...

Students demonstrate their knowledge in using latitude and longitude measurements to find locations on a map, especially places in Hawaii.

Students analyze 'Where I'm From' by George Ella Lyon. In this poetry lesson plan students examine the content and structure of the poem and mimic it to create a similar poem of their own.

In this spelling activity, students read three lists of words. Students locate one misspelled word in each list and write it correctly.

Have your class participate in a variety of sports and craft activities using this resource. With sports as the theme, learners work on art projects. Young scholars create soccer ball prints, a three dimensional football, and a sports...

In this oxymoron worksheet, students test their vocabulary skills by reading and identifying the contradiction in each of the given phrases.

Young scholars study Asian works of art and Japanese haiku. They then take this knowledge and create an original haiku in response to other works of art.

Student imitate mapping the ocean floor using the basic concepts of radar. Then they explain what radar is and how it workds. All of their measurements are recorded on a data sheet. Then the data is entered into a spreadsheet program. A...

Learners identify and interpret the function, usefulness or utitlity, form, beauty or aesthetics, and meaning, context or story, of objects and how they learn new skills and make things that they learn traditionally, by observation and...

Students meet an artist who overcame learning and physical disabilities and became a successful artist. They use a digital camera to imitate the style of one artist; and explore the connection between the use of technology and art.

Students recognize and imitate Leonardo da Vinci's unique artistic style. Through observation and practice, students capture the look of real things from many angles in actual space. They attempt their own still life drawing.

Students encounter and study "Mambo" from "West Side Story," by Leonard Bernstein. They practice utilizing musical elements (instrumentation, tempo, and dynamics) to create a certain mood for a scene with music. Each student interprets...

Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence.  In this writing lesson, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type sentence. ...

Students create a dance based on animal movements. In this kinesthetic lesson plan, the students will read and imitate animals in a creative way and share their dances with the group. The lesson includes a take-home activity and a math...