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Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain - Kenya
Students accompany music to the story Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain - Kenya to show how sound and music can accompany story description. In this music lesson, students learn how to show sound during a story.
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Book Week Campout
Students end the celebration of Book Week in their gym class. As a class, they follow directions to move along with a song and how to use their stuffed animals to move to the music. To end the lesson, they participate in a pillow fight...
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Exploring the Families of Instruments
Students investigate the families of instruments. For this instrument lesson, students discuss how each instrument family makes their sound. Students then make their own instruments. Students write a paragraph about their favorite...
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Sayings Quiz: Mixed 6
In this common English sayings instructional activity, students complete multiple choice questions where they choose the correct meaning of common English sayings. Students complete 10 problems.
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Live Performance!
Learners in groups create, produce and perform as many poems as there are members of the group. They choose between recording them, reciting them orally with music or interpreting them with dance or acting. Each group attempts to add in...
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Song Singing Activity
Students discover their musical talents by singing with their class. In this musical appreciation lesson, students attend a camping trip with their classmates and sing songs from memory around the campfire. Students are...
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What Does This Song Really Say?
Students investigate communication by analyzing lyrics from a song. In this music arts lesson, students discuss slavery, the Underground Railroad and African American traditions while listening to a song called "This Train." Students...
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Is Your Heart Getting a Good Workout?
Students practice raising their heart rates through exercise. In this physical education lesson, students discover the key to a healthy body is a healthy heart that must be exercised often. Students perform a sing along and...
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Rather Than
In this English worksheet, students use gerunds and infinitives. Students insert to or rather than to complete sentences. The students indicate whether gerunds, infinitives, bare infinitives, or nouns are being used in sentences.
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The Beautiful People of Africa
Students discover the people of Africa by creating a PowerPoint presentation. In this African culture lesson, students utilize the Internet to investigate a specific African tribe and their specific location, culture, and way of...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder and Pioneer Life
Fourth graders complete a three-week unit about Laura Ingalls Wilder and pioneer life. They research the topography of Michigan in the 1870's, conduct Internet research, write journal entries, participate in polka and waltz dancing, and...
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A World of Taste--Louisiana Gumbo
Students discover the multicultural contributions to New Orleans gumbo through participation in cross curriculum activities. In this multicultural diversity and New Orleans history lesson, students shade regions of a map according to a...
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Like Me or Not Like Me?
In this getting acquainted at the beginning of the year worksheet, students fill in the blanks about themselves and another classmate regarding school subjects and friends and then compare them. Students fill in 12 blanks.
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Christmas Around the World
Students explore Christmas celebrations in different countries. They create presentations giving information about Christmas celebrations in different countries. They compare and contrast traditional Christmas celebrations around the world.
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Masks and Aesop's Fables
Students study and perform Aesop's fables. In this Aesop's fables lesson, students read and/or listen to a number of the famous fables. They make masks based on the characters and perform a fable using the masks. They write about the...
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Different! Diverse! Dynamic! Lesson 2: Teaching Peace Through Literature And Song
Students investigate bullying and discrimination and draw pictures of a personal response to being bullied. They read Thank You, Mr. Falkner by Patricia Polacco, to determine the philosophic act that the main character performs. They...
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Underground Railroad
Students explore the Underground Railroad. In this U.S. history and technology lesson, students research an assigned topic related to the Underground Railroad, such as "abolitionist," "conductor," or "station houses." ...
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Understanding Story Elements-Who, What, Where
Students create a rap using story details. In this creative writing lesson, students examine the use of rap lyrics to list important details of stories. They view a video example, and use their notes to create their own raps...
Teaching Tolerance
One Word Posters
Students explore the universal themes they find in the complete set of One World Posters, including art, history, literature and music.
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The Joy of Friends
Young scholars begin to build friendships with people of all ages. They identify their misconceptions about people when they first meet them. They interview an elderly person and draw a picture of them. They develop a slideshow of the...
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Wagon Train
Pupils use educational software to examine the hardships and problem solving skills needed by the pioneers as they endured frontier life. They work as teams while using the game simulation. They work a number of project while not on the...
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Myths
Students complete activities using a software program that allows them to read about myths, magic and monsters, and answer multiple choice questions about main idea, prediction clues, details and sequencing. They participate in a number...
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Yingtao's New Friend
In this literature worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to a piece of literature and music. There are ten words located in the puzzle.
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Ace of Base
Even if learners are not familiar with the band Ace of Base, they can use this resource as a way to practice important skills. The answers to this 10-question quiz can be found using the Internet, and can cement learners' research skills.