Creating substitute plans may not be the highlight of your workday. Make the task less daunting with a general, day-long plan covering math, reading, word work, and writing. 

Always be prepared for a substitute teacher with a daily plan equipped with an assortment of activities that cover third grade math, reading, word work, and writing. 

Discover the effectiveness of wind, water, and steam as energy sources. The hands-on activity has young scientists create a turbine from common materials. After constructing the turbines, they use wind, water, and steam to turn them and...

Determine what young pupils already know about earth science with a brainstorming activity. After class members work together to complete a KWL chart about the Earth, they craft an acrostic poem to demonstrate their understanding.

Being a bystander can often cause as much harm as a bully causes. Junior high class members learn more about their role in a bullying situation with a presentation that defines the types of bullying, lists ways to deescalate a...

Bring balance to your lesson plans with an activity that asks individuals to solve one-step linear equations with inverse operations. Balance scales help learners understand the concept of isolating the variable.

Explore a basic pattern to practice writing expressions. In collaborative groups, learners examine a contextual pattern and write an expression to model it. The task encourages groups to describe the pattern in multiple ways.

Water is a powerful force; harness it through watermills. The task at hand is to create a simple watermill that functions in flowing water for at least three minutes. Scholars work together in teams to design and construct such a...

Sometimes, taking things apart is more fun than putting things together. Groups of learners participate in a reverse engineering activity. They dissect a device of their choosing to see how it works—great hands-on learning from the...

Help young readers find, identify, and use their voices with a set of empowering activities based on Peter H. Reynolds' trilogy of books. Sky Color, Ish, and The Dot focus on recognizing moods and treating each other...

You might not be able to learn through osmosis, but you sure can observe it! Scholars observe and measure osmosis using chicken eggs. They control for multiple variables to determine which variables have an impact and how the impact...

How many pennies can an aluminum foil boat hold? That is the challenge in a collaborative activity designed to explore the concept of buoyancy. Learners use aluminum foil to build makeshift boats and test the weight they hold before...

In this simple past tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form questions in simple past tense. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.

Fourth graders review the meaning of Newton's 3rd Law and discuss the forces that are acting on a book setting on a table. They draw a diagram of the book on the table and use arrows to illustrate the direction the forces are acting.

First graders discover plate tectonics. They observe the forces of erosion. They observe the forces of weathering. They state three ways the earth changes. They record observations and make conclusions about their observations.

Students create a model of the lungs and diaphragm. In this breathing lesson, students create a model out of a plastic bottle and balloons. They see how the diaphragm helps to fill the lungs with air. 

Students work on their cardiovascular and muscular endurance by exercising to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

Young scholars participate in a game called 4-Corner Fitness. Individually, they are given a card with an exercise and location on it. Once they finish one station, they move on to the next one following the music. To end the lesson,...

In this exercise plan worksheet, students complete a chart where they calculate how many exercises they would do over a period of time. Students complete 4 calculations for 4 different exercises and answer 3 questions.

Students participate in a fitness activity that relates to the time of year. They rotate to stations participating in P.E. activities with seasonal names.

Students explore how interval training works by performing activities that involve alternating short bursts of high intensity with lower intensity activities.

Students explore how interval training works by performing activities that involve alternating short bursts of high intensity with lower intensity activities.

Students practice verbal and nonverbal communication in order to help clarify true feelings of tragedy. They communicate also about the gratitude for people who are community helpers.

In this dicot and monocot seeds worksheet, students read the difference between the two types of seeds and draw a picture, make a poster, and use the internet to find more research on them. Students complete 3 tasks.