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Through the Odyssey, Lesson 3
Ninth graders create Powerpoint Presentation using information and assignments from previous two lessons. They compare Odysseus's obstacles with those from their own lives, and share slideshows with classmates.
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I Can Name These Animals
In this ESL animal vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict common animals. Students match these pictures to the words that describe them.
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Assignment Discovery Online Curriculum Right to Privacy?
Students explore privacy rights. In this civics lesson plan, students investigate the pros and cons of proposed national identification cards as they explore provided Internet links. Students write position papers pertaining to the...
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Describing an Object's Position
Students explore language arts by participating in a shape identification activity. In this geometry shape lesson, students discuss the vocabulary terms used to describe the location of an object. Students complete a worksheet based upon...
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Color the Trucks
Students become familiar with the jobs of different types of trucks. In this color of trucks lesson, students decorate trucks with decorations based on the job of the truck. Students describe the trucks they've colored.
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Introducing Nouns and Verbs
Second graders accurately identify nouns and verbs in sentences. In this nouns and verbs lesson, 2nd graders sing a jingle to help them identify characteristics of nouns and verbs. Students classify pictures in the proper category and...
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Letter Tag
Students play a chasing, fleeing, dodging freeze tag game while practicing identifying words that begin with a specific letters.
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Smart Board Literacy Center
Students practice spelling their names. In this technology and early emergent literacy lesson, students locate the letters in their name among a cluster of letters on the Smart board, then click and drag each letter to the other...
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Reintroduce /Q/
Students explore the alphabet by participating in a letter identification activity. In this letter "Q" lesson, students identify the different sounds that can be made by the letter "Q" and words that begin with the letter. Students...
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Clouds
Learners explore various cloud types. In this earth science activity, students use pictures of the four types of clouds and identify them by name. Learners construct pictures of clouds using chalk and blue paper.
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Triangles Introduction
Students explore geometry by drawing various shapes in class. In this triangle characteristics instructional activity, students identify the attributes that classify a shape as a triangle and practice using their bodies to create...
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Brown Bear Phonics
Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence. In this writing lesson plan, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type...
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Introduction To Literary Analysis
Explore the fascinating ways in which authors use specific literary devices to create interesting and realistic texts. Using non-fiction articles with the subject of rogue waves, an excerpt from The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger,...
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Put the Mountains on the Map
Students discuss what they know about the regions where snow leopards live. They observe the worksheets to see if they can identify any of the mountain ranges and then use atlases to check and complete the country identification worksheet.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Concepts of Time and Money
Students, after reviewing the vocabulary words on the board and being shown several examples, in pairs practice naming the months, days of the week and their abbreviations in order.
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ESOL Shape identification
Students review vocabulary shape cards. They match oral words of shapes with flash cards then they make and label their own set of shape flash cards and then review with a classmate.
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Letter Sound Accuracy, Egg Carton Game
Students explore phonetics by participating in a word sound game. For this letter identification activity, students review the letters of the alphabet and discuss the sound each one makes. Students view a video tutorial of an egg carton...
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Digging up the Dirt on Soil Microbes
Young scholars are introduced to the idea of soil as a habitat for many different organisms. They are introduced to the links between the biological adaptations of an organism and the physical demands of its habitat. Pupils are...
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Basic Food Items
Young scholars explore healthy eating by defining food vocabulary terms. In this food purchasing lesson plan, students utilize word/picture cards to participate in a food identification activity among their classmates. Young scholars...
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Oh, Let the Rain Fall Down
Fifth graders explain the three phases of the water cycle in a narraive paragraph where they describe the journey of a single raindrop. They are introduced to five science vocabulary words and personfication.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
"People Everyday" offers class members an opportunity to develop their literacy analysis skills and to develop media literacy. Guided by an included list of discussion questions, groups examaine the word choice, literary devices used,...
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Wetland Plant Detectives
Sixth graders identify plants in the wetlands. In this plant detectives lesson, 6th graders complete a scavenger hunt on a local reserve, record observations, and respond in their journals.
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Forests of the Sea
Young scholars read about and conduct experiments to learn about the vegetation under Monterey Bay. In this Monterey Bay lesson, students read about and look at brightly colored pictures of the different types of seaweed that grows in...
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Place Values and Patterns, What is the Value?
First graders discover the significance of a number's place value by interactively engaging patterns and two-digit place values. For this mathematics lesson, 1st graders complete a 10 by 10 grid to create a number puzzle.