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What Causes the Seasons?
Third graders investigate why the seasons occur throughout the year. They read a traditional wisdom story pertaining to the seasons. They create their own wisdom stories about the seasons and act them out for the class.
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Expanded Form and Place Values
Third graders write a number in their journals that the teacher dictates. They use place value tents to make the number and write it in expanded form. Next, they repeat the process before making numbers that are more or less than the...
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Scales, Scutes, and Skins
Students identify the various adaptations of reptiles and amphibians. After distinguishing between reptiles and amphibians, students discuss the ways in which their adaptations aid in their survival. They participate in a hands on...
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Tree Identification
Learners are introduced to the characteristics of trees and different techniques to identify them. They distinguish between a deciduous and a coniferous tree. Students describe at least four characteristics used to identify trees. They...
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Taking Poll Information
Learners investigate the election and poll surveys. In this statistics lesson plan, students take poll information and analyze the data. They graph their data and make predictions and conjectures.
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How to Write Your 60 Second Shakespeare Newsletter
Students become playwrights. In this Shakespeare lesson, students paraphrase familiar Shakespearian scenes that they perform for their classmates in 60 seconds.
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Decomposition vs. Synthesis Reaction
Students define the term chemical reaction, identify the reactants and products in a chemical reaction, distinguish between decomposition and synthesis reactions and construct reactions using food items.
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What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
Students draw a picture of the job they would like to have when they grow up. They discuss jobs they would like to have. They discuss the idea that men and women can do the same job.
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Introduction to Tall Tales
Students watch a video about a tall tale and list ten elements of a tall tale that they noticed in the movie. They begin with a KWL chart, and complete it as the movie and discussion progresses.
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Traveling to the Gold Rush
Fourth graders research the experiences the people who traveled to California during the Gold Rush by land and sea. They create a map showing the various routes that individuals took to get to California. Students explain the...
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Maps! Maps! Maps!
Third graders examine and identify different types of maps. They review the types of projections and which maps are better for different information. They answer comprehension questions at the end of the lesson plan.
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Team Marathon
Students develop cardiovascular fitness. They discover a safe level of pacing while running and add up their laps with the members of their team to get a "team total." That total is marked on the chart each day that they have P.E. class.
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Key Pals
Second graders analyze the proper form of friendly letters and write emails to a key pal. In this friendly letters and email lesson, 2nd graders discuss sending friendly letters and view examples of the letter format. Students then...
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Life of a Logger
Pupils are introduced to the work and lives of 19th century lumberjacks through a living history slide show presentation. They compare and contrast life 150 years ago with the present. Students describe the history of logging in...
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Reading Comprehension 9-- First Day in Class
In this reading worksheet, students practice comprehension skills by reading a passage describing a young Portuguese woman's first lesson in her new English class. Students answer 20 questions about the story. This is intended for ESL...
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Have You Ever Flown an Airplane?
In this ESL worksheet, students ask a partner 18 questions beginning with, "Have you ever..." Each partner asks a different set of 18 questions.
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Summer Safety Activity: Sun Safety
Young scholars learn about preventing sunburns. In this sun safety lesson plan, students explore the effects of the sun and find different types of protection from the sun. When finished young scholars create a beach scene using real sand.
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What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up?
Students explore career options. In this career lesson plan, students discover non-traditional career options for genders as they draw people at work in jobs and discuss them.
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Reported Speech
Pupils practice reported speech. In this speech lesson, students discuss the structure of speech and practice writing conversations using images with speech bubbles. Lesson is designed for those whose native language is not American...
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Wacky Water Critters
Students visit a local creek or stream. They collect water samples from the creek and observe and sort the "water critters" they find in the sample, observing smaller organisms under a microscope if necessary. They identify each organism...
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Christmas Party Checklist And Negotiations
For this English worksheet, students, working with a partner, negotiate all the jobs that will be required to pull a Christmas party together for their friends.
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A New Saint Nicholas
Students read and discuss, "Nicholas II and Family Canonized for 'Passion,'" researching the place of Nicholas II and his family in Russian history and in the Bolshevik revolution.
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How Does a Migration Move Forward?
Young scholars record and examine migration data, and calculate how fast and far a migrating animal travels and what influences its progression. They utilize the Journey North website to follow their migrating animals.
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Living the Dream?
Students consider the stories of two immigrants and translate their past, present and future into original pieces of writing or artwork.