+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

In Search of Good British Food

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the Internet to research the culture of British food. They determine the most common foods found in a full English breakfast, and whether they think the foods are tasty or not.
+
Activity
Curated OER

Far and Near

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students, after listening to A Country Far Away, by Nigel Gray, draw a picture and write a sentence showing how his or her life is similar to that of children in Africa.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Search-Recess

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this word search learning exercise, students complete a search, finding a set of 16 words about recess. Answers are included on page 2. 
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Using Personal Pronouns 1

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students practice the correct use of the personal pronouns "I" or "me" by completing 15 sentences.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Cloze Passage: The Ten Dollar Note

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this cloze worksheet, students read a passage and fill in blanks with words from a word list. The passage is a short fictions story, "The Ten Dollar Note."
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Understanding Quantities

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this quantities worksheet, learners complete the sentences with the vocabulary about quantities. Students complete 15 sentences.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Test Your Patience: Nonsense Quiz

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this testing patience worksheet, students read through the quiz that doesn't make sense. Students then try to answer the 20 questions to taste their patience.
+
Interactive
Curated OER

Guess What I Am

For Students 3rd
In this guess what I am worksheet, 3rd graders read the sentence clues and determine which picture is being described, then type the answer in the box, check the answer and go on to the next one.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

What Can I Do...?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this place vocabulary instructional activity, students read the terms for each example and write a short sentence describing what can be done in each of the places.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Exploring Different Types of Written Text

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this text analysis worksheet, students examine different types of texts and identify each one by matching them from a list. Students determine what each text communicates and for whom.
+
Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Celebrate Family Story Month

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Creative lesson and activity ideas that record family stories and memories.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coupon Clippers: Understanding Comparative Shopping

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in a shopping spree after listening to Pigs Go to Market: Fun with Math and Shopping. After the story is read aloud, 3rd graders answer discussion questions and review key vocabulary. Students complete provided...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Trading Faces

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use addition to determine values of coin combinations. They play a game where they come up with possible trades: two nickels for a dime and complete a tally worksheet. There are other lessons in this unit.
+
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Drama with Children I

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in activities to introduce them to drama. They mimic facial expressions, pretend objects are something else, and play "Chinese Whispers". They create puppets and theater boxes, masks and costumes, and write scripts...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Com-Post With Us? Learn About Recycling While Having Fun

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students examine the importance of recycling to help the environment. In groups, they make a compost bin on the school grounds recording how the material changes from week to week. They collect other materials for recycling like cell...
+
Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Keeping Students Focused During the Holiday Season

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
There are easy ways to make the day before a school break fun, exciting, and productive.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Beach Vocabulary Word Jumble

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this beach words learning exercise, students unscramble the letters in 22 words to spell terms pertaining to fun at the beach. There is a word bank.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Instructional Software Resources for Grades K-3

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students become familiar with teh selection, evaluation, and use of instructional software for 4-8 classroom. They download software demos from the web and discuss critiquing software. Students browse software evaluations on web sites.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Money in Action

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students become familiar with the various coins in our money system as well as amount of each coin. They help develop their ability to count change and find different ways to show equal amounts.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Growing Coral

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students define the words coral and coral reef, and identify the Great Barrier Reef on a map or a globe. They observe crystal formations that develop in a way similar to the way coral polyps create their calcium carbonate cups.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Solve the Case!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars discover the habits of panthers by solving fictitious crime mysteries.  In this animal life instructional activity, students utilize their research from previous lessons to solve mysteries in a panther activity.  Young...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Beach Vocabulary Word Jumble

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this beach vocabulary worksheet, students unscramble the letters to spell 20 words pertaining to the beach. There is a word box.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Baseball word jumble

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this baseball worksheet, students unscramble the words that represent vocabulary about baseball. Students unscramble 20 words about baseball.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Arbor Day Alphabetical Order

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Arbor Day alphabetizing worksheet, students read 16 words in a word box that pertain to trees. Students put these words in alphabetical order.