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Shhhhhhhh!!!!!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize and practice putting certain letters together as they make unique sounds in one mouth movement. This lesson plan focuses on the digraph /sh/. They study and recite the tongue twister "Shelly's aunt, Sharon shears...
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Popcorn PPPPopping P

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students are introduced to the most popular phonemes to help them with their reading. As a class, they listen to popcorn popping and identify the sound being heard. They practice saying different tongue twisters and drawing the letters...
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High or Low

For Students 9th - 12th
In this wave properties instructional activity, students will experiment to see how the sound made by vibrating a ruler is affected by the length of the part that is vibrating. Then students will answer 5 questions based on the results...
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Lesson Plan Seven: Sensorama

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify five senses, and use their senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste to distinguish different objects, sounds, smells and tastes, and write their answers in the booklet.
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Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars review the "ch" digraph in this instructional activity. Students identify words that have the "ch" sound, and practice writing the digraph. Young scholars then listen to the story "Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom" and identify the...
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The Adventures of Mr. Toss

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice with the underhand toss in a fun culminating activity. First, 4-5 students make a circle. All circles should be close enough to the instructor to easily hear the story. Explain that each group be given an object to toss.
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Energy Woes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners role play as members of Save the Earth Foundation attending a public hearing about potential energy failures. They write a plan of action regarding the advantages an disadvantages of alternative energy sources.
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Oceans-A Fact Haiku

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create haiku poems. In this poetry lesson plan, students listen to the sound of the ocean from an audio file and write a haiku poem about oceans.
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Word Family Jamboree

For Teachers K
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. For this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
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Science Charades

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students dramatize the wonderful world of nature, without making a sound. For this early childhood creative thinking lesson, students dramatize different aspects of nature to develop creative thinking, reading, memory, and motor skills.
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Enjoying Latino Music

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view different musical instruments from around Latino world, predict what sounds instruments will make based on their appearance, listen to and evaluate music from different Latino genres orally or in writing, and make...
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Total Physical Response Storytelling

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the strategy TPRS (Total Physical Response Storytelling) for studying world languages. They utilize this strategy as a vehicle to storytelling and expand their vocabulary by contextualizing it in high...
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Chinese Instruments

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore Chinese instruments. For this Chinese instrument music lesson, students listen to a performance by Liu Fang and describe the sounds they hear. Students classify western and Chinese instruments according to their...
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Preschool Lesson: Guinea Pigs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this Guinea Pig themed lesson, students hear the story, Guinea Pigs Add UP! and then engage in several themed learning activities. Each activity fosters skills in letter/number recognition, art, math or writing.  
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Similar Words

For Students 4th - 5th
In this spelling and grammar activity, students study words which look or sound alike such as "desert" and "dessert." Students use the 24 words in the word bank to choose correct words to complete 20 sentences.
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Long Vowel E Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this recognizing words with the long "E" sound worksheet, students pronounce a group of words and identify the ones that contain a long vowel E. Students circle 12 words.
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Lub Dub

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners name the vessels and parts of the heart. They trace the path of blood through the heart. Students examine the function of the circulatory system. They recognize the differences between a hear when the body is at rest opposed to...
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Wild Wonderful Walk

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the outdoors. In this poetry lesson, students spend time outdoors and write a poem about what they felt and saw. Students can do this activity in pairs or alone. Students blindfold their partner to focus on sounds and...
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Mood in Music

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students portray the mood of a piece of music in a drawing.  In this mood in music lesson, students discuss how music creates a mood.  Students listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons," "The Wreck of The Wreck of the Edmund...
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Rhyming Words

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this rhyming worksheet, students read groups of rhyming words. The first list included words with the sound you hear in by. A second list has rhyming words with the sound you hear in cow.
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Bee a Good Reader

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Being able to distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e is an important skill. Young readers are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that makes the long vowel sound. They practice reading and identifying a...
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Valentine Singing/Guessing Game

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sing songs and explore different vocal sounds. As they sing songs, students discover and mark phrases. They sing songs as a class, in groups, and individually. Students, in groups, play a guessing game with the songs.
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Say What?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore phonemes in spoken words. They discuss the /e/ (short e) correspondence. Students read "Red Gets Fed." They learn a meaningful letter symbol for the /e/. Students identify /e/ sound in both spoken and written words.
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Little Pig

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover that letters are used to write words and that they have different sounds. They pronounce the word, "pig" emphasizing the /i/ sound. They say a tongue twisters that features the /i/ sound in each word. They then...

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