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Crabmania

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students perform the "crab walk" and the "fish swim" as music plays. When the music stops, the "fish" students freeze in position as the crabs tag other fish. Tagged fish become crabs. Students continue playing the modified game of tag.
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Inventors - A Multimedia Presentation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research inventors. In this research project, students select an inventor and research their accomplishments. Then, students create a PowerPoint presentation to help share what they have learned.
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Media Awareness: Key Concepts in Advertising

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the basic concepts of advertising.  In this media awareness lesson, students discuss target audience, art, and purpose in advertising to determine what makes an advertisement effective or ineffective.  Students evaluate...
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Lights, Camera, Action

For Teachers K - 12th
Students learn the rules and protocols for the physical education classroom by videotaping scenarios from the PE classroom.
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Dinosaur Eggs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students hunt for dinosaur eggs that the teacher has made and hidden on the playground. students open the eggs to find the dinosaur inside and experience archeology first hand.
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Number Song

For Teachers K
Students sing a song (to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas) that helps reinforce their counting skills.
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Cave Painting

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research ancient cave art in France via the internet. They apply the skills and information by creating their own cave art.
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Health Wheel of Fortune

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students participate in a health vocabulary guessing game.
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Money Talks Canadian Money

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use newspapers, games and journal writing activities to examine the importance of money and the role it plays in daily life. They complete several math problems, fill out worksheets and practice changing varying amounts.
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That's Incredible Show!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research world records. They portray the people who broke world records. They conduct a mock interview in the classroom.
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"All About Me"

For Teachers K
Students perform creative movement to music, sing and improvise using the Solfege syllables do, me, so, and la, and recognize beat vs. no beat in this instructional activity for the Kindergarten General Music class. Emphasis is on a...
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All About Me - 2

For Teachers K
Students recognize beat vs. no beat, sing and improvise on do, me, so, and la, and perform creative movement to music in this Kindergarten Music activity. Emphasis is placed upon the Wiggy Wiggy Wiggles CD and creative movement exercises.
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Rhythm and Rhyming Long Rope Jumping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the importance of rhythm in rope jumping. They practice turning, then jumping. Students discuss the various types of rhymes. They work in groups for a couple of classes, students rotate from chart to chart trying out...
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Sensational Summarizers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners study strategies that aid comprehension. They focus on the main ideas of a passage and eliminate unnecessary and repetitive information. They substitute super ordinate terms for a list of items and create a topic sentence.
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Wipeout (Dancing Legs) Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students choose to dance or do a stationary swimming movement within this lesson. They play a game of noodles and taggers. The teacher explains the rules to the game and then the game begins.
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American Idol Tag

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students role play their favorite judge and chase the other students to try to take their flag football flags away. Then they travel around the gym freely trying not to lose their flags. Students who lose their flags help the judges to...
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Wipeout (Dancing Legs) Tag

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in physical education activities such as dancing or completing stationary swimming movements. They perform various actions to specified instruments such as guitars and drums. Students attempt to stay away from...
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Tennis Ball Prints

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students experiment using abstract art techniques, tennis balls, and tempera paint in this excellent, outdoor art activity for the early-elementary classroom. The resulting art prints can be displayed predominantly in the classroom.
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Give Me the Facts!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars study how to summarize a reading passage to improve their comprehension. They read a non-fiction passage and use five steps to summarize it while working in groups of three. Next, as class, they decide which group provided...
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Line Monsters

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students play a game of tag using lines on the floor.
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Countries of the World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a game to help them locate countries around the world. They identify facts about countries they drew out of hat. They work together in groups to read facts to another group until the correct country is guessed.
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Stay Well Cards

For Teachers K
Students draw pictures of things that help them stay healthy such as brushing teeth and washing hands. They write healthy ideas on their pictures. They post the pictures at home and in the classroom as reminders to stay healthy.
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Fitness Santa

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars draw Santa involved in activities that they think would keep him fit as an assessment activity.
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Shake It Up!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students shake a bottle of water to a CD of "Twist and Shout". They shake the bottle high, low, right, left, two hands, one hand, under the leg, etc.

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