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Vitamin A
Students explore non-locomotor movements and instrument improvisation creating accompaniments to the song "Vitamin A" in this elementary-level General Music instructional activity. The instructional activity nutrition messages links and...
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Rhythm Compositions
Fourth graders collaborate in small groups to create simple rhythmic patterns in different time signatures. Each group creates rhythms in a competitive "game" atmosphere and then constructs entire rhythmic groups for presentation to...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics
Students analyze/recognize/identify basic body parts in connection to communicating productively on health and nutrition in the event that a need arises requesting medical attention.
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Enrichment Activities - "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"
Fifth graders read the novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH." They discuss the various characters in the book, and the different types of conflict that take place within the book. They also research owls and rats to make comparisons...
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Graduation
Students learn to recite poems and songs that they will recite and sing at their graduation for kindergarten. In this graduation lesson, students memorize and practice 5 poems and songs.
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Measurement & Cooking - Rice Krispie Treats
Learners practice their measuring and cooking skills with a box of Rice Krispies. In this culinary instructional activity, students utilize a box of Rice Krispies, butter, marshmallows and utensils to cook a batch of Rice Krispie Treats....
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Economy Introduction: Jack and the Bank Stock
Third graders explore the functions of money. In this economics instructional activity, 3rd graders read Jack and the Beanstalk to discover the three main functions of money.
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Office Secretary
Students explore school secretaries. In this ELL vocabulary and language development lesson, students look at pictures of school secretaries performing various jobs and give oral descriptions of what they see. Students visit the school...
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What Are They Feeling?
Students role play and identify different feelings in pictures that people are having. For this feelings lesson plan, students also make a list of 15 feelings.
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Our Country, Our Community, Our Jobs
Fifth graders analyze jobs that are of interest to them. They create graphic organizers explaining how jobs affect the world in which they live with at least five supporting details. They, in groups, make presentations to the class.
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Encouraging Writing Through Combined Photos
Pupils practice writing skills through using photography to help create a writing prompt. They investigate how images can be used to create new ones that related to each other. This is similar to making a collage except now the images...
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An Introduction to Sonata
In this music activity, learners read an excerpt about the classical sonata and how it is defined. They also respond to seven questions based on what they read in the excerpt about sonata.
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Caribbean Beats and Blends: A Global Sound Lesson
Students listen and respond to various forms of Caribbean music. In this music and culture lesson, students clap rhythms and respond to a sung call. Lyrics are analyzed for language blends and repetition. Music and culture from Puerto...
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First Day of Preschool
Students discuss rules, have introductions, complete school tours, and more for the first day of preschool. In this first day of school lesson plan, students also discuss being good friends.
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The Process of Sequencing - A Picture Card Game
Students play a picture card game where they have to sequence the pictures in the correct order. In this sequencing lesson plan, students can do this for any subject.
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Extreme Weather: Hurricanes
Learners demonstrate the ability to define key words and verbally recall conditions that must be present for a hurricane to form.
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Salad Sisters
Pupils practice and perform 8 and 16 beat rhythmic patterns in 4/4 using the song "Salad Sisters" as a basis in this elementary-level General Music lesson. An amazing lesson for teaching cooperative music composition techniques and rhythm.
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Little Einsteins -- A Christmas Wish
Students watch a video of the series "Little Einstiens." After watching the video, they explain the characteristics of each character. They develop music to add to the video and listen to music of Beethoven. They examine a painting by...
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Simple Music Terms
In this music activity, students find the words that are associated with music education and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Indian Music Revision
In this music worksheet, students will complete 11 cloze sentences by using a word list. Then students will find the same words in a word search.
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Indian Music Revolution- Word Search
In this Indian music word search instructional activity, students complete 11 sentences using the terms from a word bank. They find the words in a word search at the bottom of the page. They find words which include: India, melody, and...
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"Sakura Sakura" and the Kumoijoshi Scale of Japan
Students listen to a recording of "Sakura" and determine where it is from. In this global sound lesson, students view pictures of cherry blossoms and connect its significance to Japanese culture. Students sing the score while...
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Salad Sisters
Learners play on the beats 2 and 4 of a song called Salad Sisters. In this music lesson plan, students learn a new song, learn how to count to 8 in a song, and practice how to play on the beats 2 and 4.
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The Process of Sequencing- A Picture Card Game Activity
Students put the events of a story in the correct order. In this sequencing lesson, students are paired up and labeled A or B. Students in each group receive a set of story or event sequence cards and they take turns drawing...