EL Education
El Education: The Crusades
Students research the math and physics behind various weapons used during the crusades to write an illustrate articles to add to a class book.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: The Civil War [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders explore the concept of cause and effect in the context of the Civil War and work in groups to write and deliver speeches articulating a point of view for one of the War's causes: tariffs, state's rights, or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Hop on Pop and Non Standard Measurement
This lesson plan is a hands-on, cross-curricular lesson plan for exploring non-standard measurement. It utilizes children's literature, manipulatives, opportunities for writing, and small group collaborative learning. Students will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am a Fish
This cross-curricular instructional activity combines research on an ecological issue with creative writing. After conducting research on an important environmental issue, students will present their findings from a different point of view.
EL Education
El Education: 20 Years Project Portfolio
This project is a portfolio of an 8th grader who projects herself 20 years into the future including her future occupation and life. To prepare students interview someone who works in a field similar to their projected one. The project...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: From Knotty to Calculating
In this lesson, young scholars will work within their math and English language arts classes to research the development of mathematical tools and their applications. A research paper will be produced for and graded by the English...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dance Across the United States of America [Pdf]
These activities will allow students to become explorers and travel across the United States to encounter a variety of land forms. Students will create a story about their trek and then create choreography to match the sequence generated...
University of Nebraska Omaha
An Economics and Literature Lesson: The Goat in the Rug
This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...
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African American Inventors Who've Changed Your Life (Pdf) [Pdf]
Integrated lesson plan focusing on the contributions that African American inventors have made to modern society. Includes rationale, day by day plan, links, and other information.
EL Education
El Education: 1853: 24 Hours in the Fight for Freedom
This is a book created by a 4th grade class after studying slavery and women's rights in 1853. Students wrote 1st person stories of experiences they read about and illustrated them; each story detailed a snapshot in the life of their...
EL Education
El Education: A Book of Poetry
This is a book of poetry written by a 6th grade class. They worked with their English teacher and their visual art teacher to create watercolors on which they superimposed their poems to create this book.
EL Education
El Education: A Child's Guide to Riverhill Farm
This is a child's guide or manual designed for Riverhill Farm. These 3rd and 4th grade students were studying about watersheds and farming; they visited the farm several times and learned various aspects of farming. The guide includes an...