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Polar Express Lesson Plan
Students write and illustrate a wish for the first gift of Christmas. In this Christmas lesson plan, students read the book The Polar Express and then write what they wish could be the first gift of Christmas.
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Irregular Verbs: Learn - Meet
In this irregular verbs activity, students write verbs in the past tense, participle tense, and fill them into blanks in sentences. Students complete 3 activities.
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Does Santa Claus use the Coriolis Force to Travel East?
Students are given a visual demonstration of the Coriolis Force in the Northern Hemisphere. They are encouraged to find locations around the globe and try to predict what the weather circulation patterns might be like.
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Participants are challenged to create several different sorting groups for the set of images.
Learners examine the influence of interaction with other cultures and the environment in relation to calendars. They also look at the origins of the calendar we use every day.
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Origami Cubes
Fourth graders use an origami design to make a set of cubes. Individually, they identify the characteristics of different quadrilaterals as they are folding the paper into cubes. To end the instructional activity, they make a new...
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Line Graphs
Seventh graders create a line graph and identify when to use line graphs. In this line graphs lesson, 7th graders analyze the average temperatures of various cities. Students graph the data they collected.
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Icing On The Cake
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.
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Washington Vocabulary Word Jumble
In this word jumble learning exercise, students unscramble the letters to spell words associated with the state of Washington. Students spell 20 words.
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When is a Block, not a Block?
Students use a stamped shape image to create a piece of imaginative art. In 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.
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Shopping for Toys
Pupils pretend as if they have just won a $100 gift certificate to buy some toys and must try to spend as much of it as they can without going over.
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Lights On!
Young scholars work together to build their own simple circuits. They discover how electricity is conducted through light bulbs. They compare and contrast the differences beween a parallel and series circuit.
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Chinese New Year
Sixth graders examine the culture and celebrations associated with Chinese New Year in this unit of lessons
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Travel to the Polar Lands
Second graders receive an "Expedition Ticket" to travel through the Polar Regions- the Arctic and the Antarctic. They research polar bears and make drawings that are to scale.