+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lend A Hand

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Children recall a time when they have been helped and record it in a class book or collage. A class discussion leads things off. Next, learners brainstorm ways they have been helped by other people in the past, and times they've helped...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Helen Keller Language Arts Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st Standards
The story of Helen Keller is compelling because it shows readers that a person can overcome almost any obstacle. A picture book describing Helen's life is used to address several language standards, such as using key details, identifying...
+
Unit Plan
Charanga

Sing!

For Teachers K - 12th
Whether new to the Kodály Method of music instruction or an experienced veteran, you'll find much to make your heart sing in a teacher guide that was designed for a music appreciation project. 
+
Lesson Plan
1
1
Scholastic

Teaching with Aesop's Fables

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Bring the applicable morals of Aesop's Fables to your classroom with a series of reading comprehension activities. With 12 different fables with activities and exercises, the packet focuses on the ways learners can apply the fables...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Physical Activities Do Sneakers and His Friends Do?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate fun physical activities that can be done year round.  For this physical education lesson, students read the story Big News! Straight From the Heart, and list the activities written about in the story....
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water and Me

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners name the ways in which they use water every day and create a counting book using the ways in which they use water to illustrate it. The measure and graph the amount of water they use when they wash their hands.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Kids Create Calendars for Kids

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create calendars for hospitalized children in their area. They research different holidays and work with an artist. They share their calendars with the community as well.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Moo Who?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read the books Moo Who? and Boo Hoo Moo and do language arts activities with them. In this language arts lesson plan, students are assigned activities based on the two books given. The activities include onomatopoeia activities,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Splish, Splash Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write weather shape poems and sing weather related songs. In this creative writing lesson, students read the book, It's Raining, It's Pouring and list weather words they heard in the story. Students use the writing process to...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall Teacher’s Guide

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars read the book I Am Tall and complete several reading response activities relating to the poems in the book. In this reading response instructional activity, students focus on the subject of fathers and make speculations...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Different! Diverse! Dynamic! What Do Stories Share?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students compare and contrast the stories, "Leo, the Late Bloomer," and "Thank You, Mr. Falker." They develop a Venn diagram, and write and illustrate the central theme of the stories.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Confetti

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Confetti. For this reading lesson plan, 3rd graders complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dalai Lama Tibetan Mandala Lesson

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore world history by reading a children's story in class. In this Tibetan culture lesson, students identify the Dalai Lama and his contributions to both Western and Tibetan society. Students read the story The Mountains of...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Long Train: 101 Cars on the Track Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students practice counting, measuring, and predicting. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify numbers 1-101, rhyming words, and repetitive words using Long Train by Sam Williams. Students build their recall skills by...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Read It, Don't Eat It!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners complete activities based on the book Read It, Don't Eat It! For this library rules lesson, students are read a story that illustrates library rules, then match the rules with pictures and complete a maze.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Foods and Languages of the World

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore cultures around the world. In this cross-curriculum geography lesson plan, students listen to This is the Way We Go to School , a Book about Children around the World , and locate various countries on the globe and a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Curriculum Connections with Keiko Kasza

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners read books by the author Keiko Kasza and complete critical thinking skills, and connections to different subjects. For this language lesson plan, students connect the books to language arts, social studies, science, math,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pumpkin Investigation

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners examine pumpkins and make a book depicting and describing the inside and outside of a pumpkin.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a play to work on seeing events from a different perspective. Some of them are reporters, some cameramen and women, and others are interviewed. They put themselves in the shoes of the people in the book...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Big Machines! Big Buildings! Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read a book and understand the cumulative events of the story through sequencing. In this instructional activity about cumulative texts, students are able to read the story and understand the sequence of the events. Students...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Community

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore their community. In this communities lesson, students write an interesting fact about the community on lined paper and add illustrations to their writing. Students construct a class book by combining each page of...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

TV and Teaching

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students write a story centered around their favorite TV show. In this story writing lesson, students share their favorite TV shows and discuss their favorite characters. Students draw pictures that illustrate a story in which they are a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Patterns in Nature

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine places in nature where patterns can be observed by looking through a number of books after watching a teacher PowerPoint presentation. They illustrate a pattern in nature.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Celebrate Ramadan!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore and study about Ramadan. They list what already know about celebrations, listen to a variety of books, compare/contrast various celebrations and create a project for each lesson. Each student assesses Kidspiration on the...