CPALMS
Cpalms: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, students will use What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and key details using the illustrations and text....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Why We Should Protect Freshwater Mussels
In this interactive lesson plan, students will increase their understanding of the important role that freshwater mussels play in our watershed. Students will learn about freshwater mussel species, how mussels improve water quality in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to the Research Process
In this scaffolded lesson, 1st graders will independently gather information about elephants and then compile this information with their peers. This lesson is part of a unit that will culminate with an expository writing assignment.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Infinity and Beyond Magazine of Planets
This is a student led activity in which students have to accomplish the task of choosing the most entertaining way to relay written expository information. Art/self expression along with technology are utilized to develop a classroom...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Gift for Mom and Dad
Following a reading of O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi," students write an expository essay based on the connotative definition of "gift." The essay is then presented as a holiday gift. The lesson can be adapted to a variety of occasions...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Have You Made Your New Year's Resolution?
By using the children's book, Squirrel's New Year's Resolution, as an example, students learn to write responses to the story and explain their own resolutions for the year. Site requires registration, but it is free.
CPALMS
Help Pick Your Class Pet
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be given the power of slelecting a classroom pet. Students, working in collaborative groups, must collect data about different potential classroom...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Customs and Cultures Part 1
Students meet both language arts and social studies objectives in this interdisciplinary unit on customs and cultures. In part 1 of the unit students practice research and writing skills to create a slideshow. In part 2 of the unit...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Summarization Strategy
Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas. The summarization strategy helps students recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are five rules for writing summaries.
CPALMS
Cpalms: From Apple Farm to Market!
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be selecting an apple treat that will be sold at a farm stand. Students will work in small groups to assess different criteria for their choice....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beyond the Earth Part I
Students will access prior knowledge of the solar system by completing a graphic organizer. After participating in a teacher lecture and whole group discussion, the students will work in collaborative groups to create a...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Multi Media Hero Analysis
Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, young scholars create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get to Know Your Library Media Center
This lesson will provide students with an orientation to the Library Media Center and the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The students will access the Alabama Virtual Library and will participate in a library scavenger hunt as a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.2c: Use Linking Words and Phrases to Connect Ideas
Links to 7 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2c: Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.2d: Provide a Concluding Statement or Section
Links to 8 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2d: Provide a concluding statement or section.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.2b: Develop the Topic With Facts, Definitions, and Details
Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.2a: Introduce a Topic and Group Related Information
Links to 18 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2a: Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Compare/contrast Life Cycle Texts
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to compare and contrast texts about life cycles using a Venn diagram. Then, using the Venn diagram, students will write an expository paragraph including an introductory sentence,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How Disruptions Affect Animal Populations
Students explore the effects that ecosystem disruptions can have on animal populations. They learn about the disruptions that have driven three species-the Madagascar fish eagle, the Iberian lynx, and the rowi kiwi, to the brink of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Rags to Riches or Riches to Rags?
In this lesson students will apply the interest formulas to make the best investment decision for our fictional character Algebrea Calculique. The students will be provided with a story explaining the situation that Algebrea faces and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Examining the Lives of Black Alabamians
Students compare and contrast their lives and character traits with those of famous black Alabamians. Students use technology to conduct research and write an expository essay.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How to Make Something Simple, Hard
Learners will have completed a unit of forces and motion prior to the current unit of study on simple machines (lever, inclined plane, screw, wedge, pulley, wheel and axle). Students will review the functions and examples of simple...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride Lesson Plan
This lesson plan includes activities associated with the book Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride. Because Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt were both a great deal alike, it made perfect sense that the two women were friends. In April...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.2b: Develop the Topic With Facts
Links to 40 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2b: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
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