Let's Learn About Dentists

Challenge young scholars with a counting-themed series of activities. Your counters will write invitations to a feast, create books about dinner parties and animals, design posters, draw pictures of their favorite peaceful places, and...

Your class will investigate going to the dentist with this lesson plan. After discussing reasons to go to the dentist and what a dentist does for their job, pupils write about a personal experience they had going to the dentist. Two...

Learn about firefighters with this fun, interactive lesson from scholastic. As a warm-up, young learners brainstorm what they know about firefighters. Then they read the book Fire! Fire! by Gail Gibbons and complete the Scholastic Online...

Let’s learn about frogs! Young readers are led through “Freaky Frogs,” a non-fiction article. Teach learners how to edit an article so there are fewer details to sift through. After talking through the article, they learn the six steps...

Students explore teeth. They count how many teeth they have, practice proper care of teeth and gums and explore the different parts of a tooth. They graph how many teeth they have lost and write a story about losing a tooth.

Learners participate in an author study about Patricia Polacco focusing on her use of family and friendship as themes in her books. They write a letter to the author and compare her life to that of Beatrix Potter. They examine how their...

Students participate in a variety of activities such as listening to stories about weather, illustrating sentences about weather, etc... to become familiar with weather terms. They create their own books about weather.

Students explore the world of the firefighter through various activities and wrap up the day by writing and illustrating a sentence about firefighters.

Students discover different plants and plant parts by observing their campus.  In this plant life instructional activity, students take a guided walk around their school with a magnifying glass examining everyday plants as well as...

Students explore, analyze and study about fire fighters and fire safety. They listen to a book, list what they already know about firefighters and fire safety rules and compare/contrast types of firefighters. Each student then writes a...