Curated OER
Paper Sculptures
Students create paper sculptures. In this visual arts lesson, students observe photographs of abstract sculptures and describe their observations. Students use oaktag, tape, scissors, and markers to create their own paper sculptures....
Curated OER
Thai Children's Trust
Students spell words in braille and learn how to use braille to punch out their names. For this braille lesson plan, students discuss what life would be like for a visually impaired person.
Curated OER
Animal Action
Students construct descriptive sentences. In this cross curricular music and descriptive writing activity, students listen to classical music and pantomime actions that correspond to the music. Students write descriptive sentences...
Curated OER
Rainbow Spelling (Kinesthetic Approach To Encoding)
Second graders demonstrate their encoding skills by spelling words using color coded paper, match correct letters with the colored paper to spell the words in standard form, and self correct any errors made in the spelling with colored...
Curated OER
The Leaves of Autumn
First graders express the words of Autumn through creative dance movements.
Curated OER
Lines: Invisible Journeys
Learners create visual roadmaps and follow them with gesture to create lines. They draw lines with a white crayon on paper and then paint to create a crayon resist.
Curated OER
1.2.3. Click! I See It!
Young scholars listen as the teacher reads the poem 'I Wish I Could Meet the Man That Knows' by John Ciardi. They share what they visualized as the teacher read the poem. They practice reading the book "Frindle" silently while creating...
Curated OER
What Do You See?
Students practice visualizing elements from a poem or story. While reading a poem aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a picture of the main character of the story "Because of Winn-Dixie"...
Curated OER
Can You See It?
Students discuss how to visualize while reading. They read The Thanksgiving Day Parade and Old Yeller. Students relax and picture their favorite place. They share what they saw and discuss the concept of visualization. Students visualize...
Curated OER
Let's Draw
Students listen to the story "Art Lesson" by Tomie dePaola, and discuss the importance of reaching for their dreams. They then use an "I Can Draw" book to help aid their drawing. Finally, they use Kidspiration to list what they learned...
Curated OER
Making a Treasure Your Own: Lesson Two
High schoolers write an essay describing the Curtis Center and what they learned there. For this descriptive writing essay, students discuss the five paragraph essay and review sensory discoveries from their trip. High schoolers draft an...
Curated OER
Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like
Students examine philanthropy through art using their senses. In this philanthropy lesson, students investigate what respect looks like, sounds like and feels like using their senses. They talk about diversity and tolerance before...
Curated OER
Turkey Color Page
Students work on an art project. In this following directions lesson plan, students must listen carefully and follow the teacher's instructions in order to make a picture of a turkey.
Curated OER
Falling Leaves
Students create a painting of falling leaves. In this art lesson, students collect fallen leaves and paint over them using tempera or water color paint to make an outline. Students continue painting the leaves until their paper is...
Curated OER
The Continents and Oceans of the World
Students explore world mapping skills. In this world geography lesson, students identify and label the continents and oceans on a world map using the Visual Thesaurus. Students generate mnemonic devices to help memorize these terms.
Curated OER
Engaging English: Create Alliteration Wall-Hangings to Excite Young Learners
Students explore the concept of alliteration. In this sound devices lesson, students use educational software to create alliterative phrases that are accompanied by appropriate clip art, design tools, and graphics.
Curated OER
Write a Rap Song
Pupils compose lyrics for a rap song. In this music lesson, students choose a topic, such as "Our School," and use rhyming words to compose a rap song. Pupils perform the song for their classmates.
Curated OER
One Thing Leads to Another
Learners analyze the storytelling methods in wordless books. In this visual storytelling lesson, students write a story that correspond to a specific wordless picture book. Learners create their own wordless picture book...
Curated OER
Musical Mountain
Students listen to low, middle, and high pitches of music and identify if they are low, middle, or high. In this musical pitch lesson plan, students visually see low, middle, and high pitches on a mountain.
Curated OER
Groovin' with the cows
Third graders create dance moves to a song. In this dance lesson, 3rd graders listen to the cow song and create dance moves that match the words they hear. They work in small groups and perform their dance and song.
Curated OER
During Reading Strategies
Students employ strategies to increase comprehension while they are reading. In this language arts lesson, students must infer, predict and visualize in order to improve comprehension.
Curated OER
The Odyssey Lesson 2
Ninth graders read and discuss part 1 of The Odyssey and create a mind map and visual images to represent vocabulary. In this reading lesson plan, 9th graders are introduced to poetry, and the Hero Cycle.
Curated OER
Story Books
Students discuss a narrative work of art, then write stories describing the action and publish their stories and illustrations in books.