Missouri Department of Elementary
Family Traditions
Honor family traditions with a instructional activity that examines the variety of winter celebrations. Class members discuss their family's traditions then complete a cut-and-paste practice page in which they match a picture to the name...
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Imagination Express
Students create an artistic response to the book, The Polar Express. For this creative writing lesson, students read the book and visualize an imaginary journey they would like to go on. Students create a train car from construction...
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Nutrition
Seventh graders describe the healthy choices about food. In this nutrition lesson, 7th graders use the food pyramid to help them in making nutritious choices. Students discuss their diet and talk about how it can be improved.
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Mixed-Media Self-Portrait with Symbols
Young scholars watch segments of a video to explore portraits. They create a self portrait using mixed-media.
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Teddy Bears
First graders discuss the difference between old toys and new toys. In this toys lesson plan, 1st graders bring their teddy bears to school and determine which is oldest and which is newest. They then discuss how a curator at a museum...
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Comparison of Two Different Gender Sports Teams - Part 1 of 3 Measures of Central Tendency
Students gather and analyze data from sports teams. In this measures of central tendency lesson, students gather information from websites about sports team performance. Students analyze and draw conclusions from this data. This lesson...
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Why Do Geese Fly South For the Winter?
Fifth graders examine migration by tracing animal migration routes on a map. In this animal life lesson, 5th graders observe a map of North America and read about the migration patterns of geese. Students trace the path most geese take...
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The Icky Sticky Indian
Students study the /i/ sound in both written and spoken words. They examine how their mouths move as they make the /i/ sound, recite a tongue twister, and write the both the upper and lower case 'i'. Next, they listen to a story while...
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The Squiggly Snake says: "ssssss...."
Students identify the sound the letter /s/ makes. They associate the /s/ sound with the letter symbol and practice finding the /s/ in words. As a class, students make the /s/ wound, draw the letter symbol. They read a book, "James and...
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Places, Action! Making Mind Movies: Reading To Learn
Students explore the reading strategy called visualization to help them remember what they read independently. They use visualization to help them remember enough to draw a scene from a book without looking back in the book for assistance.
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The 1812 Louisiana Constitution
Students analyze the Louisiana Constitution of 1812 and then draw up a constitution for their particular school. They compare the Louisiana Constitution to the United States Constitution of 1789 and create a graphic organizer of both...
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How Big is a Blue?
Young scholars determine the length of different whales using a rope marked off and color coded to each length. They create life-size scale drawings of whales on butcher paper.
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Back to Back Listening
Students complete a communication to improve their communication and listening skills. In this communication lesson, students sit in chairs back to back. One student describes a picture and the other study tries to draw the picture.
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China: Dim Sum: The Giant Panda of China Lesson
Students examine pictures of the giant and red pandas of China, discuss and chart the panda's habitat requirements and draw a panda in its habitat using the charted information as a guide.
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Making a Globe
Students examine the mercator projection or nautical chart and observe how global maps do not have the same distance as flat maps. They design handmade globes using the meridians and equator as guides to draw in the land. They paint and...
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Living in America (The Earliest Years)
Fifth graders work in groups to study a particular group of Native Americans. They use a study guide to guide their research and use the internet and text resources to gather information. Students post their research on a class web page.
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How Do Weather Conditions and Lunar Cycles Affect Fishing Success?
Pupils use weather measuring devices to record and study weather conditions at different locations, during different times. They attempt to draw conclusions about the relationship between weather conditions, lunar cycle and fishing success.
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Rocky Observations
Students examine two images of rocks, make their own observations of individual rocks through drawing, and explain how the same observation skills can be used in the study of geology.
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Acids And Bases -- Universal Indicator
Eighth graders design and perform an experiment that uses a Universal Indicator Color Guide to measure the strength of acids and bases. They also determine happens when acids and bases are mixed together. They decide which of three...
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A Stately Comparison
Fifth graders research two United States. They draw each state and contact state tourism departments for travel brochures and guides. They create a graph of where people live and why and a letter explaining why they would move to one...
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Butterfly Life Cycle
Second graders engage in a lesson that covers the life cycle of a butterfly. They use the Kidpix software to create a drawing of the life cycle with the help of an illustration given by the teacher as a guide. Then students discuss the...
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Observation and Discovery
Students explore the basic skills guiding sound scientific invvestigation and methodology. They are introduced to a powerful scientific tool-the microscope. Students review the parts of the microscope. They discuss the inventor of the...
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In the Path of the Ancients: Unearthing Formulas for Area
Students apply the formulas for the area of parallelograms and triangles. Through guided practice, students discover the correct way to apply the formulas. Working in pairs, they write their own problems featuring the formulas.
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Reading/English Language Arts/ Instructional Strategies
Students are given a line drawing that only that students sees. They are asked to describe the drawings to the reset of the class to see if they can draw it as the teacher describes it. Students work with a partner, and they are given a...