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LESSON PLANS
Second graders encounter how the native and Spanish cultures influenced art on Colonial New Mexico. They experience some of the games, art and tools of colonial New Mexico. Students strive to increase new vocabulary. They also access how...
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Having Beary Much Fun with Core Knowledge
Students participate in a teddy bear themed unit to improve their social and reading skills along with other core knowledge subjects. In this social and reading skills lesson, students complete 8 units of activities to learn about social...
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Spell Race
Learners work on their spelling skills and word recognition skills while using different locomotor movements.
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Who Hid the Milk Products?
Students study milk products and learn their health benefits. In this milk products lesson plan, students discuss dairy products. Students participate in a game of milk product identification. Students also discuss categorizing milk by...
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An Opening Time Line Project
Students create a time line of their life starting at birth and each year after that up to their current age. They write and illustrate one important thing for each year, and place their time lines on poster board.
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Product of the Future Activity
Learners predict what computers, games, or products be like in 2030. They think about and design futuristic products.
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Water Facts And Media
Young scholars engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the facts surrounding water. They conduct research using a variety of resources to gather facts for the game of trivia. The information is used also to create a...
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Mystery Words - Part Two - School Terms
Students increase their vocabularies with the mystery words activity. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students solve the mystery words using clues.
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Matching Pairs
Learners take turns matching the appropriate shapes (listing coin values) to those with numerical values listed on them. When learners are successful, they win a blank shape for their collection.
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Capacity Lotto
In this mathematical worksheet, students convert fifteen metric units of capacity and multiply and divide whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
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Units Of Time
For this units of time worksheet, students cut out ten strips of time and then match up the strips of time to their actual times.
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Give Me Five, Cents That Is
Students explore coins, especially the nickel, through a toy cash register, worksheet, and paper nickels.
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Ima's Dream
Students compile a list of items on which a person can spend money, categorize a list of items based upon similarities, and solve mathematical problems based upon given scenarios.
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Tic-Tac-Place Value
First graders explore how to write, read, and identify three-digit numbers.
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Know Numbers Now
Fourth graders, in teams, get a set of magnetic cards. They come up to the front of the class and create a new number on the chart.
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Angle Aerobics
Third graders review angle criteria and then stand. They demonstrate with their hands each type of angle called out by the teacher: right, acute, or obtuse. Music is added and students follow teacher in an angle aerobics class peppered...
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Kinder Bakeshop
Students create a bakery where they sell cookies for a week. Students identify and interpret how to make their own money and deposit it into their bank accounts. Students also identify how to withdraw money from these accounts in order...
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Introduction to Magnetism and Electronics
Students are introduced to the concepts of magnetism and electronics. As a class, they walk through the steps of the scientific method and define new vocabulary. In groups, they are given a bag of objects and they are to separate them...
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Creating a Classroom Constitution
Youngsters identify and interpret the importance of having rules in order to maintain order at home, at school, in their community, and in the United States. They create a working Classroom Constitution that governs the classroom and...
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When I Was Young In Appalachia
Students comapre and contrast the lifestyles of the people of the Applachian region with their own community through in-class discussions, creative projects, hands-on activities, food preservation, homemade remedies, home construction,...
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Are You a Super Sign Speler or Speller?
Why is spelling important? Develop your class' spelling skills. They examine examples of homonyms, heteronyms, and creative spelling. They also photograph misspellings in the real world in order to discover the importance of spelling...
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Wonderfully Wild Unit the four L's of Wildlife
Students appreciate the natural environment. In this "four L's" lesson, students observe, reflect and appreciate unique ecosystems and how they help sustain life. Students create posters with the four L's.
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Billions of Bubbles
Students conduct an experiment with bubbles. In this observation and comparison lesson, students read Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere and conduct an experiment where they test different kinds of liquids to see which is the best for a...
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Explore Your World--Geography Takes You Places
Students examine how the world around them is constantly changing. In groups, they travel between centers in their classroom to role play the role of explorers in Washington D.C. They share their experiences with their classmates and...