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Read About Science: Toys
Students complete another Read about Science with a focus on toys. Individually, they read a book of their choice about toys and define new vocabulary. To end the science lesson plan, they complete a KWL chart and share what they...
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Have Something Done Exercise
Particularly useful for English language learners, this resource tests learners on their ability to distinguish between doing something and having something done. There's an example at the top of the page and 15 sentences that follow....
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Let's Go to Korea
Students prepare for travel to Korea. For this Korean travel lesson, students discover to steps of obtaining passports, airline flight options to Korea, and study places to see and visit in Korea.
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Complexity Madness
After introducing the concept and formula for finding the area of a square, try this lesson plan. Fifth graders will use their prior knowledge to break apart various shapes in order to determine area. This lesson plan includes several...
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Newton's Laws of Motion
Ninth graders utilize Newton's Laws of Motion to explain how things move, create poster illustrating each law of motion, and present and explain their poster to classmates.
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Building Bridges
Students identify the different types of bridges. Using the internet, they research information on how they are built by completing a scavenger hunt. Locating a specific area, they determine which type of bridge would be appropriate and...
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The Hispanic Migration into Iowa
Sixth graders examine the positive and negative effects of the migration of people of Hispanic descent in the state of Iowa. They examine and interpret census data using maps before comparing the positives and negatives. They read...
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary building instructional activity, students enhance their personal vocabulary by learning words that begin with CH-blends. Students are allowed the use of dictionaries.
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The Purple Cow
Students read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow. In this poetry instructional activity, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.
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Essay Writing
Are your learners working towards their GED? First they study the GED essay rubric, and then they read a sample essay as a group. After studying the basic elements, they write an essay of their own. After peer editing, they revise their...
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Health Career Planner - Interest Inventory
Career exploration can begin with something as simple as a personal interest inventory. Learners complete a list of personal interests, determine their personality type, and then discuss how suited they'd be to a health care career.
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Descriptive Prompt: Precise Language
Incorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. First, elementary and middle schoolers improve a piece of writing by using precise, vivid language, as well as appropriate word choice. They then listen to a variety of...
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A Word Path
In this sorting words worksheet, learners read 30 words in a grid. Students color red all things found in a cupboard, blue all things found in a castle, and green all things found in a forest.
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The World of Work
Students practice appropriate behavior during a mock job interview. In this interview skills lesson plan, students identify a career using the given websites. Students answer questions in preparation for the job interview and read do's...
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Assessing Reading Fluency Using the Flip Video
Utilizing a video camera, learners will read a story while being recorded. Later, they analyze the footage. After identifying their strengths and weaknesses with the teacher, they discuss reading fluency techniques. Adaptation: Instead...
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First Day Lesson Plan
Young scholars participate in a first day icebreaker activity. For this icebreaker lesson, students are paired up and film their partner doing something unique. Young scholars continue to film eachother while conducting a short interview.
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Allusions, Slang, and Literary Analogies
Partners identify literary allusions using a provided worksheet and use this knowledge to examine the allusions in Toni Cade Bambara's "Raymond's Run." The class also examines the impact of allusions and slang on the tone of the story.
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Energy Resources
In this energy resources worksheet, students complete 12 questions in the format of puzzles, teasers, and twisters. Examples include a modified cryptoquip and pictogram.
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Traveling Technology
Students create a dream vacation. In this traveling technology lesson, student use the internet, travel brochures and maps to research and create a dream vacation. They determine the complete itinerary and the total cost.
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Science: Invent a Gadget
Third graders invent gadgets using simple machine principles. Once they have assembled graphic organizers containing information about their invention, they draw diagrams and explain how their gadget works. Lastly, 3rd graders write...
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Analyzing Logos
Students analyze common logos they see daily and describe what the logos bring to mind. They redesign a company logo incorporating the company's philosophy into their sketches. Students present their findings and redesign to the class.
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Tessellating Ceiling Tiles
Students transform polygons. In this tessellating lesson, students design a picture containing a translation and a rotation. They create a template of a translation or a rotation. Students tessellate and decorate a...
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China Vocabulary Quiz
In this recognizing meanings of words worksheet, students match words about the country China with their definitions. Students match 16 answers.
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Perimeter, Area and Volume
Middle schoolers compute area. In this perimeter, area and volume lesson, students examine given objects and determine the perimeter, area, and volume of each.