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Hailstones & Halibut Bones: Using Color to Teach Adjectives
Students write a color poem with a color, a noun, and their two adjectives in each line. They can start each line with the color or the noun, as long as the adjectives are put where they make sense.
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The Giver (Middle, Literature)
Students write down what emotions are evoked by different colors of construction paper. They discuss what they and other students have written. They use this concept to discuss why the community in The Giver is devoid of color.
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Weather
Students participate in a variety of mini-lessons including experiments, literature readings, physical education components, music, data gathering and recording and more to expose them to several themes of weather; i.e. water cycle,...
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Bubonic Plague Role Play
Students, by doing the role play, develop, in groups of 3 or 4, a hypothesis for the cause of the Bubonic Plague during the Renaissance.
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The Genre of Captivity Literature
Students make reference to previously presented material,
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Fulcrums in Our Body
Second graders discuss fulcrums and levers and identify at least two fulcrums and levers on their bodies. They also identify fulcrums and levers on animal bodies.
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Subtracting Integers: Math, Physical Education, Dancing, Negative Numbers
Middle schoolers demonstrate their understanding of positive and negative integers by adding and subtracting. More importantly, students explain why a negative number, subtracted from a negative number, changes the operation.
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Who am I? - Target Language
Students, using present tense, ask simple questions in the target language. They answer verbally simple question in the target language using the present tense.
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Numerator and Denominator
Students identify the numerator and denominator of a fraction.
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Football Review
Students review a subject and get points such as the points in football for correct and incorrect answers. In this football review lesson plan, students fill out a score board as they review.
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Early Christmas Tree Decorations
Students use a slice of bread to create a christmas decoration. They use glue and glitter to make the decoration their own. They are encouraged to give their decoration to someone they care about.
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And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street Writing Activity
Students are read a Dr. Suess book. They use the same format found in the book to create a class book about what they see on the way home from school. They practice writing sentences and illustrate them for the book.
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Fashion Terms
Students define fashion terminology and play Bingo with fashion terms. They find pictures that portray fashion terms, mat them and use them to create portfolios.
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Investigation 1 - Intro: Living & Nonliving
Third graders distinguish between living and nonliving things.
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Liver
Students study the livers parts and functions then follow a lab experiment to watch first hand how the gut uses bile to physically break down fatty substances into smaller pieces.
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Munchy Math
Students manipulate computer mouse to place the cursor on a numeral to match the correct number of foods, using Kidspiration.
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Metalloids
Students discuss metalloids, their use as semiconductors, and their impact on the computer industry. They work in groups to create a visual timeline showing the evolution of the computer.
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L I V I N G U N D E R C O M M U N I S M
Students examine a communist regime and what it means to live within a communist societyl.
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Making Stained Glass Windows
Students, in groups, research several European cathedrals from the Middle Ages. They design stained glass windows and decorate a school window with their design using black construction paper and cellophane.
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Which Number Does Elmo the Alligator Eat?
First graders determine whether two or more sets are equal to, more than, or less than the other.
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Balance and Flux Reveal How Organisms Are Connected in Ecosystems
Students read about cats in Borneo and discuss role predators play in controlling population size. They map the interdependencies among species. They read about flux in ecosystems and complete a worksheet.
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Nurse Tina Stick Puppet
Students describe alcohol s a drug that can be harmful to their bodies.
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Getting to Know You
Students interview each other to find similarities and differences with their partner. They create a Venn diagram that displays their findings and then using hula hoops as a large scale model present their Venn diagram to the class as a...