It's opposite day! The fourth installment of a 21-part module teaches scholars about opposites of integers and of zero. Number lines and real-world situations provide an entry point to this topic.

Students participate in an opposite-word concentration game. In this grammar lesson, students use an old deck of playing cards and glue small squares of opposite illustrations to the back of each card. Students make as many matches as...

Review with your young learners what opposites are and use a fun tag board game called Auntie Alice to practice. After the class plays the game, pairs work on computers practicing with interactive matching/flashcards/concentration games...

Students examine and discuss various pairs of opposites, repeating the words in Spanish. They draw a picture to illustrate each opposite and write sentences containing the Spanish opposites.

Second graders generate a list of opposites found in the book, "Kaleidoscope of Kids". They use newspaper and magazine pictures to find opposites.

Elizabeth Peyton is an artist who creates images of people (often famous) that she doesn't personally know. These images become part of her imagined community. Learners analyze her work, her community of imagined friends, and then create...

Pupils observe pictures taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. From a given website, students observe images of the Einstein Cross, Black Eye Galaxy, Hoag's Object, merging and interacting galaxies and more. This lesson plan gives a...

First graders take a picture walk through of the big book "Moonbear's Books" and make predictions on what they think is happening. Echo read to check predictions. Students generate words that are opposites on chart paper.

In this language arts worksheet, students explore antonyms and learn that they mean the opposite. Students read the words in 4 boxes and circle the antonym pair. They then draw a line to match the word with the picture it describes.

Students explore gender roles by describing an ideal partner. In this human characteristic lesson, students create a chart which describes the positive and negative aspects they seek in a partner of the opposite sex. Students demonstrate...

In this online interactive opposites worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions that require them to identify antonyms of the bold-faced words in 12 sentences. Students may submit their...

To gain an understanding of color mixing theory and the color wheel, young artists draw a picture, mix up a batch of secondary colors to which they add dish soap, and using straws, bubble up the paint....

Elementary schoolers use adjectives correctly in their speech. They demonstrate adjectives using familiar objects. (For example, they might show narrow by walking between two chairs placed closely together.) Then they play antonym Bingo...

Third graders read the story "Conejito" and write a descriptive story about the rainforest in Panama. They answer story comprehension questions, complete worksheet questions about a map of Panama, and rewrite a paragraph changing the...

 Describing things using adjectives is the focus of this lesson designed for language learners. Class members play games, draw pictures, and sing songs, adding adjectives to describe animals.

Welcome to the backward world of negative numbers. This introductory lesson teaches young mathematicians that negative numbers are simply the opposite of positive numbers as they use number lines to plot and compare...

Students make an accordion book to show information that is associated with a particular learning event. For this accordion book lesson, students follow paper-folding directions to make the book. They fill the book with key facts and...

Students study directional words and opposites. In this inside, outside, upside down, lesson, students illustrate words and are captured on camera sharing their words. The digital pictures will be compiled into a class slide show to...

Students create a computer slide show of pictures representing directional words. After listening to several books with examples, they pair words such as inside and outside, below and above, or high and low. With older students or...

In this bee worksheet, students study 4 pictures of bees with descriptive labels: flying, sitting, wet, dry. Students complete 4 sentences using the proper word for each picture.

In this math worksheet students use the intermediate value theorem to solve two problems. They find parallel lines that will cut a convex shape into two pieces with equal areas. Students repeat this problem with a concave shape. Students...

Students investigate shapes. In this dimension and orientation of shapes lesson plan, students identify and color shapes, use shape stamps to form animals, glue shapes together to make other objects and describe how shapes are used.

Seventh graders engage in a lesson that is focused upon teaching the concept of integer numbers with a focus upon the integers. They practice solving different problems using positive and negative numbers. They then attempt to describe...

Students demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion. They discuss the history of rockets, observe how a rocket works, and draw a picture and write an explanation of the balloon experiment.