Curated OER
Buying Clothes
Students create a story about friends going shopping with new vocabulary. In this creating a story lesson plan, students use new language and number words in their story.
Curated OER
Bargaining
Learners create a newspaper or magazine advertisement for clothing and personal items. Students make statements of preference regarding these items. Learners engage in a role play where two people are bargaining for various items.
Curated OER
Travel Photos
Students describe photographs. In this travel photos lesson, students view a slide-show of travel photos in order to assist them with developing photo captions. Students describe details, events, and persons from the photos in the...
Curated OER
Telephone Game
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game. In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
Curated OER
Charades
Students play a charades game to communicate what they like or don't like when they travel. In this travel lesson plan, students play the charades and then read and write sentences about a past traveling experience.
Curated OER
Silent Movie
Learners examine the impact of movies and television. In this communication lesson, students share filmstrips that lack sound and determine the genre of the segments. Learners discuss popular movies and television shows from different...
Curated OER
Time Capsule
Students create a rough draft for a time capsule project. In this time capsule lesson plan, students bring in items to put into a time capsule and write a rough draft to submit to their teacher.
Curated OER
Communicating with My World
Students create a time capsule. In this oral presentation and history preservation lesson plan, students provide feedback for their time capsule project, work with a partner to write an oral presentation, and present their time capsule...
Curated OER
Daily Routines
Students describe the daily routine of a person using a different language. In this foreign language vocabulary lesson, students discuss the different items people use to get ready every day and practice using those vocabulary terms....
Curated OER
Grooming Activity
Learners discover the essential items to properly groom for a nice event. In this cleaning habits lesson, students discuss and identify important cleaning items such as a brush, shower gel, cologne, etc. Learners create a chart and...
Curated OER
Planning an outing
Learners create a scenario where they go on a date with another person and write a draft of their presentation in the form of a fashion show. In this scenario lesson plan, students do all of this in the foreign language they are studying.
Curated OER
Writing A Story
Students write a story about past events and translate it into English. In this story writing lesson plan, students watch video clips, look at examples of stories, and write ones themselves.
Curated OER
Transportation Lesson
Students practice using transportation vocabulary in a foreign language. In this language arts lesson, students utilize the vocabulary terms for locations in order to give directions and find a specific place. Students answer a...
Curated OER
Planning a Community Service Project
Students practice using a new language to plan a community event. In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language. Students brainstorm in small groups what their project...
Curated OER
Group Rehearsal
Students study their national and family heritage while working in groups. In this personal history project, students examine the family shield or crest of the teacher while preparing to create and share their own with the class....
Curated OER
Let's Read the Newspaper
Students investigate the format of a typical newspaper. In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news. Students work together as a newspaper group each...
Curated OER
Correspondence
Students write a pen pal letter to narrate a special event in the life of a young person in the TL culture. In this pen pal lesson plan, students read and respond to letters by their classmates.
Curated OER
Creating Our Newspapers
Students write newspaper articles in groups to form a class newspaper. In this newspaper lesson plan, students share their work with another group who critiques it.
Curated OER
About Discussions
Pupils exchange opinions, express feelings, and listen to presentations of others about an argument. In this discussion lesson plan, students learn how to listen and respond for an argument they intend to have.
Curated OER
On the air! Interviews
In this mock interview lesson, students view pictures of famous personalities and determine which of these personalities they would like to interview. Students follow the three step interview process and conduct a mock interview with a...
Curated OER
The Louisiana Purchase
Students take a closer look at Lewis and Clark's expedition. In this Louisiana Purchase lesson, students play an interactive game based on the expedition and respond to questions about the game once they finish it.
Curated OER
Creating a Brochure with Word
Students watch a PowerPoint presentation about how to create a brochure using Word. For this word processing lesson, students create a three-fold brochure about a topic of their choice.
Curated OER
Forces of Change
Second graders discuss various ways in which landforms change over time. They, in groups, research and create a reference book about landform change including tsunamis, earthquakes, weathering, erosion and volcanic eruptions.
Curated OER
Who Were the First Americans?
Second graders explore Native Americans through a PowerPoint presentation.