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Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
Utah Education Network
Uen: It Looked Like
Make a class book based on the format of "It Looked Like Spilt Milk".
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams
Selected (6) reading passages (grades 8-12) to pair with "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. After losing her family estate to creditors, Blanche DuBois moves in with her younger sister, Stella, and her working class...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Can Shapes Be
This is a hands-on lesson plan that will help young scholars explore shapes in their environment. Students will work in diverse groups to complete this activity. Young scholars will make a class book of their findings.This lesson plan...
EL Education
El Education: Calculicious: Making Calculus Delicious
This book was created by seniors at High Tech High in San Diego, California. It is a product from a cross-curricular study of art and mathematics. For one semester, the students worked on a project in math class and art class that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars
In this instructional activity, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and...
PBS
Pbs American Masters: Maurice Sendak
A profile of Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. There is also a lesson plan for K-2 (make a class book) and one for Grades 6-8 (create an opera based on Sendak's work).
PBS
Pbs American Masters: Maurice Sendak
A profile of Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. There is also a lesson plan for K-2 (make a class book) and one for Grades 6-8 (create an opera based on Sendak's work).
Utah Education Network
Uen: Abc Community Walk
In this lesson, students will learn vocabulary related to a community. The class will create a class Community ABC Book as a culminating activity to show what they have learned about what it means to be part of a community.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Farm Phonics
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to be used to integrate phonics into a farm theme used in kindergarten. Students work with story sequence, making words, describing using their 5 senses, and listening to and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Planning a Fierce Wondering Story
After reading and discussing "Fierce Wondering" inspired by Ralph Fletcher's A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You, and a page from Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss, the teachers makes two class lists of interesting...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Brain Sizzlers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains one page logic puzzles adapted from the book Brain Sizzlers. These activities make great warm ups for math grades 6- algebra.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Learning Playground Rules
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps children to practice safety and learn to share. It explains what it means to make, enforce, carry out and interpret rules. Incorporates the book It's My Turn by David Bedford.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Nuts" About Peanuts! (Reading)
The lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will learn about the growth cycle of a peanut and use a Five-Step Sequence Think-sheet to sequence the steps. They will also make predictions and complete...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Observing and Creating Sketches of an Outdoor Environment
Young scholars use their senses to observe nature then sketch a plant and/or animal in their science journals using detail and color. Using these sketches, they will create classroom books which are shared with the class.
Other
Hubbard's Cupboard: The Enormous "Kinder" Garden
In this unit from Hubbard's Cupboard, an elementary class will read several books together, each having a strong connection to the next. There are ideas for cross-curricular lessons, so this could be a site that shapes the next several...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wizardry and Chemistry
Students learn how common pop culture references (Harry Potter books) can relate to chemistry. While making and demonstrating their own low-intensity sparklers (muggle-versions of magic wands), students learn and come to appreciate the...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Understanding Stereotypes
This lesson will open students' eyes to hurtful stereotypes by making them examine their beliefs. This is a three-day lesson that includes whole class and small group activities, critical thinking questions, suggested resources and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Moving Through a Machine
After enjoying chapter 3 from Robert McCloskey's classic chapter book Homer Price students will work together to expand upon McCloskey's description of how the donut-making machine works. Focusing on a variety of transitions, students...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Maximizing the Area of a Rectangle
This activity is adapted from one of the TI books. Students measure lengths and widths of rectangles and record for the class to see. Each group's rectangle has the same perimeter, but different areas. After a discussion, students make...
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Let's Do Lunch! [Pdf]
The purpose of this project is to teach students the life skills they need when dining in public. The project begins with a discussion of eating out and the students are polled as to how often, if ever, they eat in a restaurant with...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Twenty Questions" History Virtual Fieldtrip
During this lesson, students engage in a virtual game of "Twenty Questions" with another class. They will utilize textbooks, trade books, the Alabama Virtual Library, and other Internet sites for reference. Each team (class) will be...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Beloved Trial
This lesson plan serves as a final assessment for Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. Students need to have a thorough working knowledge of the story and characters in the book. They are asked to give Sethe a present-day trial since her trial...