Students participate in activities that increase awareness of environmental stewardship. In this stewardship lesson, students discuss solutions to environmental problems and apply the solutions to ways they can keep their classroom...

Students explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...

Students share social and cultural traditions and values. They develop listening strategies to explain what is heard.

Pupils are asked to look at differences in people and accept those differences but to examine that people are more alike than different. The lesson has the central focus of investigating diversity.

Students research George Washington Carver. In this science lesson, students discuss George Washington Carver's contribution to science. Students explain how peanut butter is produced.

Students demonstrate dance activities and rhythm activities to whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes. They clap and move to notes individually and in 16 count metric phrases. As they create different 16 count metric phrases and...

Students take part in group entertainment activities. In this circus lesson, students discuss their own memories of a circus and conduct several activities such as juggling scarves and creating balloon animals. Students discuss why...

Pupils investigate the history of Gary, Indiana by looking at its history, demographics and points of interest. They create a timeline of important events in the city's history.

Learners investigate the concepts that surround the Civil Rights Movement. They conduct research with the help of the teacher and use chart paper to create posters about major people involved. Students also complete a timeline graphic...

Students identify and interpret plant growth as well as gain graphing skills and other important knowledge related to potting plants. They take a regular milk jug and cut off the top, leaving the handle and the rest intact. Then,...

Students recall memories from childhood and share them with the class. In this memory lesson, students listen to the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and determine the types of memories people have. Students look for items from...

Students honor African Americans in history. In this celebrating achievements lesson, students plan, design, and implement ways to honor persons in African American history during Black History Month.

Students create an artistic response to the book, The Polar Express. In this creative writing lesson plan, students read the book and visualize an imaginary journey they would like to go on. Students create a train car from construction...

Students design their own cultural calendar.  In this calendar making instructional activity, students decide on a culture for a calendar theme and discuss how calendars differ from the US calendar.  Students create their own...

Students practice rating things using numbers between -2 to 2. In this rating instructional activity, students determine what a rating scale is before rating things such as the weather, a book, or a day using the numbers -2 to 2. They...

Students read the books Diary of a Fly, Diary of a Worm, and Diary of a Spider and write diary entries about them. In this reading lesson plan, students also draw pictures to go along with their diary entries.

Students copy a memorized nursery rhyme on to writing paper. They illustrate their writing and the finished piece is posted for conferences or Back-to-School night.

Students read orally with expression in this lesson. They read sentences stressing different emotions with appropriate expression. The teacher models expressive vs. non-expressive reading, and they practice with a partner. Their...

Pupils create a cookie that is inspired by their holidays. They write a paragraph explaining why the shape represents their holiday.

Students explore a variety of math concepts. In this integrating technology instructional activity, students visit online webtools such as Max's Math Adventure, I Know That Math, Hands on Banking, and more.  A description of each...