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Make a Journal
Students decide what kind of journal they want to keep. They make the cover for their journal using construction paper and markers or paint and other types of art equipment like sequins.
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Describing Our Senator
Third graders find the narrator or speaker in a story. In this story elements lesson, 3rd graders listen to the story My Senator and Me and answer comprehension questions. They complete a descriptive writing piece from different...
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Stormy Weather
Fifth graders compare human and wildlife environments. In this stormy weather instructional activity, 5th graders imagine they are an animal or human during a storm. Students compose a story with comparisons and reasons for...
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Fabulous Fossils
Seventh graders investigate how fossils are formed and discuss how scientists determine the appearance of ancient plants and animals. They make fossils of everyday objects for others to identify. They make spreadsheets to display fossil...
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Endangered Animal Power Point
Students construct a Powerpoint presentation on endangered animals. In this technology lesson, students use the Internet to gather research notes on an endangered animal. Students use an outline to create a Powerpoint presentation on...
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A Picture is Worth a Million Words
Students practice composing digital photographs by documenting activities in their lives. In this photography lesson plan, students utilize digital cameras to create beautiful art from things they find around the campus or at their...
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Investigating Crickets and Their Body Parts
Second graders investigate the body of a cricket. In this biology lesson students use tools to gain information about the insect the cricket. Students observe and identify features and describe how these features help the cricket live in...
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Stormy Weather
Fifth graders demonstrate their knowledge for how animals survive in natural environments when a storm occurs. For this science/writing lesson, 5th graders engage in a listening activity with the teacher. Additionally, students write a...
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Mini-Ecosystems
Third graders identify the living and non living things in a book read aloud and discuss the interactions represented in the book. Then, they research and include a list of food that each animal needs in an ecosystem. Finally, 3rd...
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Cats
Students participate in an after school program that promotes communication with others, solving problems, and making decisions. They experience getting in touch with themselves, about cats, training cats, showing cats and explore...
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Family - Mish-pa-cha
Students review and practice Hebrew vocabulary for family members, listen to and sing the "Mishpacha Song" as a class, create vocabulary flash cards for each family member, and introduce family members in Hebrew while incorporating...
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Fish Counting Nursery Rhyme
Students experience The Fish Counting Rhyme. In this counting lesson, students practice counting while listening to The Fish Counting Rhyme.
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Read a Transportation Story
Students explore a transportation story. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read The Thumb in Box and discuss the provided discussion questions regarding the plot of the story.
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Easter
Students study the holiday of Easter. They practice prepositions of place and instructions. They create an acrostic poem using the word Easter as a class. They decorate eggs, identify colors, and participate in an egg hunt. They...
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Festive resources
Students research activities on a festive/seasonal theme. They work on speaking activities like Christmas wishes. They analyze a cross cultural comparison of two festive/seasonal themes. Students include topics like Christmas and pets,...
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For Sale!
Students review same type (denomination) coin sets, and build same type coin sets equaling fifty cents.
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Bird Beak Buffet
Students complete an activity that allows them to better understand that birds traits are closely related to what they eat, where they live, etc. In this bird trait lesson plan students complete an activity, create a data board and...
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Puppetmania: Using Puppets in the Classroom
Learners create puppets to teach concepts such as history and weather. In this Puppetmania lesson, students manipulate their puppets to show a range of emotions, facial expressions, and actions. Learners design puppets and learn about...
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What's in it and Who Eats it?
First graders explore farming by illustrating images. In this livestock instructional activity, 1st graders discuss what types of plants are used to feed livestock animals and how pets and humans eat the livestock animals. Students draw...
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Ten Sly Piranhas: A Counting Story in Reverse
Students solve related addition and subtraction problems. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students use the book Ten Sly Piranhas by William Wise as the source of word problems for students to solve.
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Time to Look at Me!
Second graders investigate timelines. In this sequencing instructional activity, 2nd graders create a timeline of events important to their lives and then write a description of the event describing why it is important to their life.
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Be Prepared With Emergency Supplies
Learners identify what needs to be in a Family Emergency Supplies Kit. In this safety lesson, students discuss items that are necessary to have in emergencies. Learners use pictures of items and order them according to importance.
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"Swamp Monsters" by Mary Blount Christian
Using the book Swamp Monsters by Mary Blount Christian, young readers discuss key vocabulary terms and make predictions about swamp monsters. They complete a Cloze activity, explore past-tense verbs, and categorize vocabulary words.
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Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales
Students gain insight into the unusual, solitary world of Beatrix Potter's Victorian childhood and can compare/contrast it with their own world to explain why Potter wrote such simple stories and why she wrote about animals rather than...