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Conflict Resolution and Addressing Bullying Issues
Helpful ways to engage students in anti-bullying exercises
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!
Students use information from the U.S. Bureau of the Census to create a bar graph, a picture graph, or a circle graph showing the country of origin of U.S. Hispanics.
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Why Not Adopt? Lesson #4
Students discuss the benefits of pet adoption. In this pet instructional activity, students participate in a class discussion on pet adoption, animal shelters and how to care for a pet. They complete worksheets in groups and write about...
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ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary In the Content Areas
Students create an ABC book using vocabulary words from content areas. They use each word in context and create an illustration for each word to further demonstrate their knowledge of its meaning.
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Don't Let Pressure Get to You
Students study the ways peers can pressure them on a daily basis. They watch video segments on how to better deal with peer pressure.
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Seven Famous African-American Masters of American Art
Learners examine seven different African-American artists. In groups, they use the internet to identify their contribution and techniques to the art world and examine the time period in which the artwork was produced. To end the...
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The Harlem Renaissance: Black American Traditions
Students examine the time period of the Harlem Renaissance. As a class, they are introduced to five artists and discuss their art and techniques. Using the internet, they also research the philosophers of the time period and how...
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Let's Talk Trash
In this solid waste worksheet, students classify the different types of solid wastes found in landfills into given categories. Students predict and tally the total number of each type of item found in the landfill using slips of paper....
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Chess Lesson Plans
Students discover the game of chess. In this critical thinking lesson, students learn the rules for each chess piece and the game as a whole. Students use critical thinking, problem solving, logic, and reasoning skills to improve their...
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Can We Switch Genders of Story Characters?
Students read and review the main elements of a story. In this language arts lesson, students predict what the story read to them would have been like if the genders of the characters had been different. Students write a new story in...
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Is the Brady Bunch Biased
Students examine gender bias on television and in the movies. In this social science lesson, students watch various shows and when an instance of stereotypical behavior, or gender bias situation occurs, students think about the problem....
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I Am More Than You See
Students discuss the effects of gender bias and stereotyping by identifying personal interests and values. In this sociology lesson, students iscuss the forces in society which cause gender discrimination, create poems about themselves,...
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Paper Mache Caterpillar
Students read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and practice fine motor skills by using scissors and newsprint strips, and balloons to create paper mache caterpillars.
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PRINCESSES DON'T HAVE TO BE PASSIVE
Students learn the effects of stereotyping and discrimination.
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Cooperative Learning
Learning can be structured competitively, so that students work against each other; individually, so that students work alone; or cooperatively, so that students work together to accomplish shared learning goals.
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Who I Am Collage
Young scholars create a collage about themselves and their interests by using magazines and pictures. In this who I am lesson plan, students present their collage orally to their classmates.
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Student Learning-Strengths Inventory
Students complete an online inventory to determine their strengths and weaknesses. They create graphs to show their results. They discover how they are unique from their classmates.
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Sentence Game
Students explore and study what they already know about grammar and sentence structure to reinforce their mastery of assessing the eight parts of speech. They match a set of colored word cards with their correct part of speech and create...
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Rain Orchestra
First graders mix secondary colors from primary colors and simulate a rainstorm by using body percussion.
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Understanding and Identifying Individual Resources
Students identify their own individual resources in the categories of financial, emotional, mental, physical, role models, knowledge of hidden rules, and support systems.
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What's In a Name?
Students write a story. In this identification lesson, students write their name vertically and think of a word or phrase to match each letter. Students write a paragraph or story based on their name descriptions.
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Student Dictionary
Third graders examine the concept of alphabetizing. They develop a class dictionary, creating definitions of themselves, and typing in their names, pronunciation, and the definitions, and inserting their picture into their document.
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Modernism
Students engage in a study of the literature of modernism in America. They conduct research and read different texts for clarification of the genre style. Students discuss the background influences of culture that shaped modernism.
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We Are Super-Duper!
Learners explore the concept that each person is unique, special and valuable and assess how to express that concept with positive attitudes through role play, music and art. They email a friend or family member a special message with a...