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Survivor Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students work in groups to complete challenges. In this cooperation, endurance and strength lesson, students complete challenges from their Survivor Challenge Task Card and when complete, do the closing challenge together.
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Paper Plate Aerobics

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in physical activities with paper plates under their feet. In this paper plate aerobics lesson plan, students make original routines consisting of a series of moves and play tag,
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Skeletal System (Continued)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine human bones. In this skeletal system lesson, students review the functions and locations of bones in the human body. Learners work in groups to complete an activity where they discover why bones are hollow and discuss...
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Breaking News: Chinese Writer to Have Shakespeare's Face

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore current events by completing a list of worksheet activities. In this William Shakespeare lesson, students identify a resident of China who wishes to undergo plastic surgery to give himself the face of William...
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Creating A Bill Of Rights In Space

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students define rights, analyze and apply the U.S. Bill of Rights to hypothetical situations, and create an Intergalactic Bill of Rights.
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Seashell Homes

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils listen to a story about seashells. They discuss shelled animals. Learners describe the function of seashell. Pupils relate the function of a seashell to their own dwelling. They differentiate between shelled animals that make...
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Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students view photographs of the Civil War. In this photojournalism lesson, students look at Mathew Brady's photographs of the Civil War. They discover the evolution of photographic equipment and analyze Civil War photographs. 
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners investigate storytelling by analyzing images in a book.  In this reading analysis lesson, students read and analyze the book Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  Learners observe the illustrations in the...
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Creating Volunteers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the benefits of volunteering. In this creating volunteers instructional activity, students consider philanthropic actions and opportunity costs. Students create a song and visual aid about being a volunteer.
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Teaching Science Process Skills

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Teaching science process skills is a vital part of helping students become good scientists.
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Drop Zone! Design and Test a Probe

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners work together to develop their own parachuting probe. They test it and record the results. They simulate other experiments that are going to be carried out by the Huygens probe.
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The Link With TV and Vegetables

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore Philo Farnsworth, a fourteen year old farm boy in 1921, who thought up the idea of television. By the time he was in a high school physics class he drew his concept.
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The Little Rock Nine

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students research the integration of Arkansas' Central High School. They role-play as students integrating the school and describe their experiences.
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Map Activity: Place Name

For Students 4th - 6th
In this map instructional activity, students locate given words on a map of the United States, then answer a set of 4 related short answer questions.
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101 Math Journal Topics

For Students 4th - 5th
For this math worksheet, students examine the topics available to complete a daily math journal. They repeat the procedure for future lessons.
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Isla Story Map and Time-line

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders arrange five major events from the story Isla in correct order on a quiz. They represent the sequence of at least five story events through a story map based on the book, Isla.
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How is a Human Vacation Like an Animal Migration?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students compare animal migrations with human vacations. They consider the preparations involved, the purposes of travel and the consequences of any mistakes.
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Geometric Shape Dances

For Teachers K - 4th
Students use movement and dance in order to strengthen mathematical understanding of different geometric shapes. The movements are imitating the drawing of shapes and they pick one to make into a dance. Upon beginning the dance music can...
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Giving Good Advice

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Young scholars use prior knowledge of their own lives to come up with a list of tips for kids who are in the grade below who will be moving up to the next grade. The tips should include what they should know and what they should do. ...
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Time for Monet - Timeline Game

For Teachers 4th
This is a game using the artwork of Claude Monet to chronologically arrange events occurring in France and the United States on time lines. Students discuss the probable differences, cause and effect relationships, and similarities,...
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Picture This

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a descriptive paragraph about their past or their heritage and provide a picture to go along with it. In this past and heritage lesson plan, students share their paragraph with the class.
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Brainstorm This!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars discuss the advantages and types of brainstorming as a prewriting tool. They experiment with different styles of brainstorming and produce prewriting samples for assessment.
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"Mother Earth" -- Present

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils examine the Native American belief of "Mother Earth". They read stories from Native American authors and reflect. They illustrate this concept through art and haikus.
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Puzzle Mystery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students solve the mystery of which painting they are reproducing by sketching. They determine the mood and imagery in artwork.

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