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Publishing a Group Book
Students examine various alphabet books. They write several sentences for their assigned letter of the alphabet, type them onto a word processing program, and create an illustration for a class alphabet book.
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New Nation
Fifth graders discuss leadership, citizenship, symbols for a nation, how to create peace after reading "The Iroquois Constitution," "The Declaration of Independence," and "Letters from An American Farmer." They create their own nations...
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Color My World
Fourth graders write poems using color to describe their feelings and environment. After viewing a sample student poem imbedded in this plan, 4th graders utilize The Student Writing Center educational software program to type their poem.
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Adaptable Animals
Learners examine the types of adaptations that animals use to survive. They research the animals and report their findings to the class.
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Phenomenology Lesson Plan #2: Content Part #1
Young scholars examine different types of media. They identify the bias in film and share them with the class. They also examine their personal biases and write about them.
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Environment and Recycling Issues
First graders read and understand the text found while conducting internet research. They recognize how literature records information and reflects the human experience. Students also compare and contrast answers to questions. Then...
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Wild Things Are Here
Students engage in a literature study for the book Where The Wild Things Are. The skill of prediction is practiced as they preview the story as a whole class. The teacher models reading fluency, pronunciation, and phonetic skills while...
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Authoring Stories for Guided Reading
Students in a teacher education program write their own children's book. Using books already written, they review age appropriate for their grade level placement. They write their own story and illustrate it using various software...
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Making Kites
High schoolers engage in the study of kites and focus upon the evaluation and designs invovled. They conduct research into the different types of designs and use the information in order to create unique project designs. The drawings are...
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Combining Sentences
In this combining sentences worksheet, students complete a seven question on-line interactive page on joining sentences. Students read the two or three sentences and in the box, type the sentences that have been combined. Students check...
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Bringing Tolerance to Our Beaches
Students relate tolerance and discrimination within a Biblical context. They read "The Sneetches" and apply it to situations occuring now. They write a letter to Congresss speaking out against discrimination.
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A Fish Story
Pupils closely examine and analyze an American tall tale. They find the key features of a tall tale and compose a tall tale of their own. Student groups write, edit and present their tales to the class.
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Forming Committees
Students analyze types of events, choose one to plan for appreciation event, determine committees necessary for planning and staging event, list duties of each committee, and place each committee function on timeline relative to date of...
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Severe Weather Planning
Fourth graders research the need to prepared for a severe weather event. They select one type of weather condition and explain how to be prepared in a report.
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Midterm Project
Students create a multimedia presentation. They create a storyboard using Inspiration. Students write a narrative that reflects the process he/she went through to create the presentation. They include obstacles encountered and solutions...
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AUSTRALIA
Students examine the different types of barrier reefs and how they are formed. In this barrier reef lesson students complete several activities on coral reefs.
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Re-telling The Tale
Students retell a fairy tale by writing on the computer. In this writing lesson plan, students draft, revise, edit, and publish their retelling of the story.
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Global Art: A Sense of Caring
Students participate in a global art project in which students from around the world share their art. They explore different cultures and languages as they view different types of art.
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Good Enough To Eat
Young scholars are introduced to the five food groups. In groups, they place different foods into the correct section of the Food Pyramid. Using different types of technology, they create one page of a class ABC book sharing what they...
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Rainforest
Students explore and study an activity that reinforces counting skills and drawing rain forest animals in their math storybooks. They brainstorm what type of animals they think they'd see in the rain forest, birds as well as colors. Each...
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Contractions
Fourth graders make a list of contractions. In this contractions lesson, 4th graders create a table with three rows and three columns. Students write each vocabulary word, a definition and an illustration in each box....
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Interpreting workplace memos and notices
Students read company memos and write summary sentences while working as part of a group.
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Performances of Lear's Speeches
Students engage in a instructional activity which gives them an introduction to the text, as a way to compare and contrast the instructional activity learned at the end of the play. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan to...
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Oxymorons
Twelfth graders explore the use of oxymorons in everyday speech and writing. In small groups, 12th graders develop a list of common oxymorons they have heard or read to present to the class, and search the Internet for additional oxymorons.