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Let's Make a Meal: A Study of Oats
Students investigate the history and health benefits of oats. In this food history and nutrition lesson, students describe the origin of oats in America, define nutrition related vocabulary, and read and follow recipes for making...
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Book Making
Students make connections with real life experiences and the two languages, including Spanish and English. They create their own books in this project lesson plan to take home and read with their families. Students also use a digital...
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Louisiana Cinquains
Students enhance their understanding of parts of speech by writing a cinquain poem about Louisiana. In this cinquain poem lesson, students read example cinquain poems and study the format for a cinquain poem. Students create a class poem...
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Lace Pictures
Students create Valentine's Day gifts. In this visual arts lesson, students create a Valentine's Day project using paper doilies pasted onto construction paper. Students frame their art with brown construction paper and give their...
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Visual Pictures of the Buffalo National River
Learners create art in a Buffalo National River unit. In this Buffalo River art instructional activity, students create woven rugs, make baskets, create pottery bowls, build log cabins, and construct tipis. They create a bulletin board...
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Letter to a Leprechaun
Students write a persuasive writing paper telling a Leprechaun why they should share their gold with the student. In this persuasive writing lesson plan, students write about what they would do with their pot of gold.
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Using Picture Mapping to Improve Student Comprehension
Students draw pictoral representations of a reading selection they read in order to recall information. In this picture mapping lesson plan, students use pictures to comprehend what they read and sequence the pictures as well.
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Who Lives in the Arctic North?
Young scholars study the Arctic North. In this Canada history lesson, small groups of students research and then teach the class about either the plants, animals, humans, or geography in relation to the Arctic North. Young scholars make...
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States On A Map
Third graders locate the states of Main and Kansas on a map. In this state location lesson plan, 3rd graders read the book Sarah, Plain and Tall and discuss what states she traveled through.
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A Mountain of Myths
Students examine myths and the reverse of the Colorado quarter. They define myth, view and discuss a transparency of the Colorado Quarter Reverse, and create a myth to explain the formation of a landform in Colorado.
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The Important Thing About Reading
Students write about the importance of reading. In this reading lesson plan, students listen to the book called The Important Book which is about the importance of reading, discuss it, and write about how they can take action to provide...
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Why Not Fabric?
Students investigate art from Native American culture by creating fabric. In this native art analysis lesson, students identify the art of Plains Indians and discuss how it is represented in their fabrics, beads and decorations. Students...
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Impressive prints!
Students explore Inuit artworks and legends, and create prints of a fictional animal. They familiarize themselves with the concepts of positive and negative spaces through printmaking techniques.
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Students participate in various activities which address Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In this holiday lesson, students are exposed to Hebrew songs and construct Haiku poems about Yom Kippur.
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Cathlapolte.... Catching Time's Secrets
Third graders investigate nature by studying a Chinook village from the past. In this sustainable living instructional activity, 3rd graders examine the architecture, environment and activities of the Chinook people. Students...
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Lights On ! Lights Off! Exploring Human Settlement Patterns
Third graders write informational paragraphs based on the settlement patterns of the United States. In this settlement lesson plan, 3rd graders read about population and how it affects where people settle next.
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Keeping Our Pets Safe In An Emergency
Students fill out worksheets that teach them how to prepare for emergency situations and how to enable animal safety in emergency situations. In this emergency lesson plan, students talk about different kinds of emergencies and how they...
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The Cleverest Thief
Third graders read the story The Cleverest Thief and complete language art activities to go along with it. Students complete activities including discussion, reading, writing, predicting, drawing, role playing, and sequencing.
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Celebration of Living History
Students create a living history book about themselves and read it to a senior friend. In this living history lesson plan, students complete a project about the living history of their lives by filling out venn diagrams and sharing it...
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Oral Language
Learners use distances on a map to draw a route, give directions, and follow directions. In this map lesson plan, students explain their route and directions orally.
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Chinese Dragons
Students use texture, line, shape, pattern and color to create their own dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year.
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Recycled CD Bulletin Board Christmas Tree
Students create a bulletin board display of a Christmas tree out of painted CDs.
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Who's Who at Our School?
Young scholars recognize and use language appropriately for varied contexts and purposes. Students integrate listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing for multiple purposes. Young scholars develop and use a variety of strategies...
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Babar's Travels
Students read the story The Story of Babar and have a class discussion about his travels, discuss their families, design a map, pick music, and more. In this cross curricular musical lesson plan, students create a music map for each of...