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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Polar Express

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners read The Polar Express.They prepare a painting on KidPix that shows what they predict The Polar Express will be about. They show their paintings and tell what they feel the story is about and discuss why it is important to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students recall details of nursery rhyme read by teacher, identify main characters, and demonstrate knowledge of poem by creating concept map about story that includes title, clip art, and changes in font and color.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Old friends, New game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create characters from a book. In this Language arts instructional activity, the students act out the story by role playing.  The students learn how to articulate correctly, by working together to arrive at the same destination.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Close Up and Far Away

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use magnifiers and telescopes to view things close up. In this magnifiers and telescopes lesson plan, students use the tools to identify things that are close and far away. Students tell details of things they can see closer.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sharing is Caring

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concepts of sharing and good citizenship. They demonstrate reading comprehension skills including inference, literal meaning and critical analysis.
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Lesson Plan
Pyro Innovations

Get into Shape

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Shapes are so fun! Little ones explore, identify, and create shapes using tangrams or pattern blocks. The activity is intended to stimulate critical thinking while engaging learners through play and shape identification. Each child will...
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eBook
Other

Peoples Education: Make Inferences in Science [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 4th Standards
This online textbook selection focuses on how scientists make inferences from evidence. Students are given a reading passage about underwater exploration and are asked to make inferences based on the text. The passage is followed by...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Kindergarten: Three Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Three lessons designed to introduce young learners and beginning readers to the concept of drawing conclusions based on actions performed in a charades game, on verbal cues given in a guessing game, and...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Back

For Teachers 1st
First graders tell what is happening in the story, but use words and phrases from the story to tell how they know.