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Field Trip to San Bruno
Young scholars contrast a weedy annual grassland of introduced species with an undisturbed, ancient plant community of native bunchgrasses and wildflowers.
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"Sea" Me Race
Third graders explore the ocean habitat. They race each other while portraying a different creature of the sea. They research various types of creatures found in the sea and portray that creature while racing classmate.
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Running To Iraq
Students demonstrate our support of our troops overseas. They develop values of compassion, caring, and respect throughout the school. They participate in Physical Education class and run as part of the heart warm-up or as part of a...
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High in the Sky with Fluency
Students practice reading orally to increase speed and fluency in this lesson. The teacher models fluent reading by reading orally the book "Arthur's Reading Race." The students then work with a partner taking turns reading and...
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Extraordinary Lives
In this extraordinary lives worksheet, learners answer questions about David Platonoff's Russian grandmother. Students answer 17 questions.
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ESL-Reading Comprehension
In this ESL reading comprehension activity, students read a letter, then answer questions about the writer's aim, who the letter was sent to, what the writer thinks and is worried about.
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Vectors
Pupils differentiate distance and displacement. In this physics lesson plan, students use formulas to calculate for displacement. They draw vectors using the grid.
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Tour of the Town of Andrews
Third graders describe local services being provided on a tour of their town. During community-based instruction, they visit several local government buildings. Upon their return, 3rd graders document in their journals, the services...
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The Great Wall of China Lesson
Fourth graders explore The Great Wall of China and use materials to make a class Great Wall of China students measure a portion of the classroom, school or playground and construct a "Great Wall" to scale.
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Shark Attack
Students develop the different jumping patterns (hopping; jumping using 2 feet take-offs and landings; leaping; 1-to-2 foot jumps; 2-to-1 foot jumps)
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Alphabet Tag
Learners work on letter recognition as they play a game of tag. To get unfrozen they make a letter with their body and a free runner guesses the letter.
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Graph It
First graders collect classroom data (such as mode of transportation used to get to school) and prepare a pictograph to interpret the information.
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Jump for Joy
First graders are introduced to correct form in jumping and landing and then perform these activities to rhythmic music.
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Pokemon Tag
Students play Pokemon Tag to promote the improvement of chasing and fleeing skills.
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Spot Jumping
Students practice two-foot take-offs for jumping and a one foot for a hopping. They practice locomotor skill to music.
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The Rocky Shore
Students compare a realistic landscape painting with a photograph of the same place.
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Body Part Tag
Students participate in a game of tag using body parts. They are dodgers and taggers in this game. Dodgers try to avoid having teacher-named body parts tagged by the taggers.
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Balloon Staging
Students discover how rockets can reach a higher altitude by using staging. They use balloons to demonstrate this concept and then practice with rockets. They discuss the results to end the lesson.
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Pokemon Tag
Students play a tag variation game. Four different colored hula hoops are placed in the corners of the gym with a ball of the same color. Four students are selected to be the Pokemon taggers, they stand in their corresponding hula hoop....
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Max's Math Adventures
In this counting practice worksheet, students read the story rhyme about counting practice. Students count a handful of objects they find in their home. Students then count the objects illustrated in each picture set. Students also draw...
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Switch and Rotate
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Body Shapes with Stretch Ropes
Students form the body shapes (wide, narrow, rounded, and twisted) while using a piece of equipment.
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Paper or Plastic
Students practice throwing and catching skills with plastic grocery bags.
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Dribble Tag
Students practice dribbling with their one hand while staying away from the designated taggers.