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I Saw A Ship A-Sailing
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the reading of the story while focusing upon the development of vocabulary and reading fluency. They practice reading while running their finger underneath the text to follow along...
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Boosting Your Memory
In this memory activity, students learn about three different ways to memorize given information. They make up phrases to help remember lists and they create mental maps to remember terms. They put what they learned to the test and...
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Anansi and The Tug O' War
Students complete activities with the story Anansi and the Tug O' War. In this literature instructional activity, students listen to a story, answer comprehension questions, and complete three worksheets. They discuss facial expressions...
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Classification Practice-Animals
Students use pictures of animals to make a classification system. In this classification lesson plan, students are given pictures of different animals. They create a classification system for the animals and identify what they have in...
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Autobiographies
Students create an autobiography. In this autobiography lesson, students create a digital autobiography using photographs and captions about their lives. Students will publish their autobiography on the class blog page, as well...
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Using Words to Work Things Out
Third graders discuss ways to use words to solve a conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, 3rd graders read the book Angela and Alice and discuss the conflict from the story. Students brainstorm ways to solve conflicts among...
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How a Pumpkin Grows
In this picture story pumpkin worksheet, students color and cut apart 6 parts of the story of pumpkin growing from planting the seed to eating pie. This could be used to sequence a story.
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Measuring the Egyptian Way using the Pythagorean Theorem
Students measure using the Pythagorean Theorem. In this geometry lesson, students solve right triangles using the properties of the Pythagorean theorem. They apply the same knowledge to solving story problems.
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Letter Booklets: Qq to Zz
In these recognizing letters of the alphabet worksheets, students identify each letter Qq to Zz, and create booklets of each letter, trace and write the upper case and lower case letters, observe pictures of words with the beginning...
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Alphabetical Order Cut and Paste
In this alphabetical order worksheet, students cut out 20 word cards and glue them in alphabetical order on a sidewalk picture. Some words will start with the same letter.
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Hot Air Balloons
Middle schoolers examine how a hot air balloon works. In this hot air balloon instructional activity, students do an experiment to test the effects of heat on density. Middle schoolers make their own hot air balloon and act out how...
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A Matter of Pattern
Young scholars explore how shapes can make patterns then make connections as to how elements in a pattern relate to one another. In this matter of pattern lesson, students create a multi-folded paper snowflake. Young scholars engage...
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Harcourt Story: Eleanor and Amelia Go for a Ride
Fourth graders are introduced to a list of vocabulary words as it relates to the story Eleanor and Amelia Go for a Ride and a use graphic organizer to clarify the meaning of the text. For this "Eleanor and Amelia Go for a Ride"...
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I Am Here Today
Students learn the letters in their name and the order of the letters to make their name.
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Animal Parade
Students begin the activity by coloring animals on the beginning and end pages. They are to put the other pages in order based on the animals place in the parade.
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Sense of Sight Lesson
Students sequence what they saw in the book Maisy's Nature Walk. In this sequencing lesson plan, the teacher reads the book and the children listen and observe. Once the book is read, the students have to sequence what Maisy saw on her...
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Fire Safety
Students cut out pictures and put them into sequential order including the captions that match to the pictures. In pairs, they role-play calling the Fire and Rescue Service using the Big Book and complete the "Who Said What?" worksheet....
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Hall/ Heal Lesson
Students review the food groups and vocabulary in order to define how good nutrition is part of good health. They read a variety of articles in order to better understand the concept and develop reading comprehension at the same time.
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And The Twelfth One Is
Ninth graders play guess my shape (either describe or use a feely bag to introduce the 3 shapes in the problem.) As they are identified put them in an order as shown in the problem. As the students work on the problem in pairs teacher...
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Gremlins
First graders investigate the missing numbers on an equation chart in order to practice their addition and subtraction skills. They work with sums up to twenty and use up to twenty objects to work with subtraction equations. They listen...
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Inspiration!
Learners create a diagram based on rocks using a computer program. They use the program to put their thoughts in order and to have a sheet to reference to.
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Vanishing Point
Students investigate the vanishing point of a visual image with the integration of technology using a video game. The teacher plays the game and then pauses the screen to ask the them to find the vanishing point. Students trace lines in...
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Japanese Society
Students conduct research into the life of being a person who is Japanese. The lesson uses essential questions in order to guide the research. Classroom activities are used to encourage discussion.
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Cell Structure and DNA
Sixth graders identify, locate and describe the function of the parts of a cell. In groups, they state the five stages of mitosis and put them in the correct order. They are introduced to the structure of DNA and mRNA and how they...