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Lesson 6: Native Americans in the West
Learners recall their knowledge of Native American people who lived in the West and reflect on how their perspectives differed from pioneers and argonauts of the 19th century.
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Germs Make Me Sick
Pupils work in pairs, first doubling each number with pencil and paper, and checking it with a calculator.
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Kwanzaa Language Arts: The Tambiko
Students read or hear about famous African Americans to learn about the ways in which they exemplify one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
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You Can Play It
Students listen to a piece of music on the bells, recorder, and rhythm sticks, comparing and contrasting the different instruments. They play the song, Row Row Row Your Boat, rotating groups to play the bells, recorder, and rhythm sticks.
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The Colors on My TV Screen
Pupils explore how electronic screens use only three colors to produce the colors that people see on the screen. They make and test a color wheel.
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Analytical Spectroscope
Students using a spectroscope view different substances when heated with electricity.
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Signs
Students discuss the purpose of various signs posted in their everyday environment and create a personal sign to best represent themselves.
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Tall Tales Folded Envelope Book
Students create a book using art, problem solving and language skills. They illustrate and write a tall tale. They sculpt a character from their tall tale.
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THE FLOW OF MUSIC AND POETRY
Students describe their feelings through writing, art or music.
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Language Arts: Five Senses Walk
First graders take a discovery walk around the school. They use their observations to compose a class book about their school.
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Trees!
Students are introduced to the parts of trees through discussion and participation in learning centers with hands on activities that focus on each part.
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The Value of Coins
Students examine the Iowa state quarter and discuss things they value. They draw a picture of something they value and then practice identifying the values of coins.
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Friendship Mobiles
Students discuss how the sun, wind, clouds and other elements of nature can be their friends. They create mobile demonstrating this.
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Animals in Art
Students look at how animals are shown in literature and art as representing emotions, telling a story, or sending a message in this elementary school Language Arts and Visual Arts lesson.
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What is Life Without Water?
Students differentiate between how they use water in response to a need and how they use water for pleasure. They read books about water, participate in class discussion and illustrate their observations.
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Minting a New Mint
Students explore why the Founding Fathers felt it was necessary to have a solitary form of money used throughout the land. Students create their own money systems and have a class sale to simulate the confusion of multiple forms of...
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Red Ribbon Locomotor Stations (for Drug Free America Week)
Students are introduced to the Red Ribbon campaign. In groups, they travel between a stations to discover how to stay away from drugs and how to say no. To end the lesson, they practice their locomotor skills to reinforce the strategies.
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Chips - Beginning to Read
Students practice writing, sounding out, and spelling words with the /sh/ digraph. They listen as the teacher says words with the /sh/ digraph. They then use Elconin boxes and letter manipulatives to spell /sh/ digraph words. They make...
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Where The Green Grass Grows
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /g/ in various...
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Visual Elements in the Giant Kites of Guatemala: Shape, Rhythm, and Color
Students view pictures of and discuss geometric shapes included in kites from Guatemala. They discuss the repetition of shapes and how that creates a motif. Students draw three concentric arches across their paper. They create a design...
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Fun with Fish!
Students observe the phoneme and digraph /sh/ in spoken words. They discover a meaningful representation and practicie finding /sh/ in words. They read and spell words (using a letterbox instructional activity) that contain the phoneme...
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Sleuth Rays
Students conduct a close examination of the atom's electrons, and discover how to theorize the energy levels, observe the brightness of light, classify colors, and measure temperature.
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Let's Get To the Core!
Young scholars practice analyzing ice core samples to discover climate changes. Using the samples, they identify and graph the gas amounts. They use these numbers to determine their effect on global warming. In pairs, they complete a...
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Sizing Up Sound
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of sound waves and frequency. As a class, they listen to the differences between different types of instruments. To end the lesson, they practice identifying low and high pitches and playing...
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