Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Solar System Tourist Bureau

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, working in teams, role-play as advertising agents creating ad campaigns for a planet in the solar system. They design commercials for video, Hyperstudio, or Web pages. The activity includes research, all the production stages,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Planets in Our Solar System

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research climate and landforms on nine planets in our solar system, choose one planet to visit, gather information about their chosen planet's climate and landforms, and "invent" space suit that would enable them to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Nine Planets

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
A solid instructional activity on teaching the nine planets in our solar system is here for you. In it, young scientists learn the correct order of the planets, and they choose one of the planets to do a research report on. They must...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Starry Night Time and Day Time

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a unit of lessons on the solar system. They complete various art projects inspired by Van Gogh's 'Starry Night,' create a moon phases book, create a moon phase wind chime, develop a timeline of space exploration,...
Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Third Grade Skills Unit 7: What’s in Our Universe?

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Over four weeks, third graders participate in lessons that boost spelling, grammar, reading, and writing skills. Scholars explore spelling patterns, suffixes, singular and plural possessive nouns, quotations, and conjunctions....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Moon WebQuest

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research basic information about the moon and identify the phases and order of the phases of the moon. They conduct Internet research, complete a moon WebQuest, and write a magazine article about the moon using their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading to Learn

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete story maps in this instructional activity. Students read "The Magic School Bus", and get into groups to choose their story element. Each group shares their information with the class. They then complete a story map...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Language Arts: Bringing Verbs to Life

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergarteners create action words collections to use in their own writing projects. After listening to several books, they select action verbs to dramatize and take digital photographs of their acting. Once the photos are printed, they...
Worksheet
Curated OER

NASA Anniversary

For Students 5th - 10th
In this NASA Anniversary worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Moon Journal

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe Moon and its features, and record results both in written form and in a drawing on the given template.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparatives and Superlatives-Worksheet 2

For Students 5th - 7th
In this comparatives/superlatives worksheet, learners fill in blanks with the appropriate form to correctly complete a set of 15 sentences. An answer key is included.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with P

For Students 10th - 11th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word choice to complete the sentence. They are challenged by the choices which all start with the letter "p."
Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparative and Superlative

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL worksheet, learners read 15 sentences and complete them by filling in the missing comparative or superlative. A word bank is included in this worksheet.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Understanding Cloud Formation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners view a demonstration that simulates cloud formation. They read a poem about clouds, participate in a class demonstration using warm water and ice and write a paragraph summarizing their observations.
Unknown Type
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Solar System Find It! Quiz

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Find It! quiz from Enchanted Learning encourages deductive reasoning, dictionary use, and vocabulary building. Used as a small group activity, it can promote cooperative learning.