Skittles - yum!! You will instantly have your student's attention when you teach about arrays using Skittles. This detailed lesson plan walks you through the steps, provides worksheets for varying math levels, and includes a video of the...

Second graders will be able to estimate the lengths of objects by mentally partitioning the lengths into inches. A video, worksheets, and a detailed lesson plan are included.

Students will use the engineering process to design a windbreak to save a house from wind erosion. Included in this activity are detailed instructions, a video of the activity in action, a list of materials, and a printable lab sheet.

Junior scientists use their imagination to create a Lego car. This investigation allows scientists to see that they can put items together to create some new product. Videos of the instructional activity in action and examples of...

In this lesson, the teacher will read a book about different landforms. The children will learn about the features of the landforms and how they were shaped by natural forces. Then text features will be discussed. The children will then...

In this instructional activity, the children learn about how critters depend on the butterfly bush and how the butterfly bush, in turn, depends on it. Common Core writing skills are integrated as they take it to the next step, and create...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Does what you do online always stay online? Students learn that the information they share online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." Depending on how they manage it, this trail can be big or small,...

At the end of this lesson, students will demonstrate the use of commas, clarifying questions, and a friendly letter format by sending an email. Email is part of student's lives, and it is part of the digital landscape they will need to...

In this instructional activity learners practice saying tongue twisters, read Dr. Seuss' Oh Say Can You See, and then write orginal tongue twisters of their own.

This is an introductory instructional activity to learning who is speaking in a story. The students do this specific skill after the teacher models it in the hook. They get guided practice sorting and labeling who is talking in the...

Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively by using the Think-Pair-Share technique to ask questions about a story. Included are examples of student's questions, and a Think-Pair-Share poster and document.

Second graders gain fluency in reading and building tables using three-digit numbers. This lesson includes a detailed plan, printable worksheets, a video showing students engaged in the lesson, and an exit ticket to assess understanding.

This lesson uses rhyming and visualization to help students quickly add number facts that make ten.

Second graders explore numbers in a variety of ways to understand how to compare three-digit numbers based on an understanding of place value. This lesson includes an interactive number line video, samples of student work, and a...

Second graders will identify the attributes of 3D shapes and measure the edges in inches and centimeters. This lesson contains a detailed plan and videos of students engaged in the activity.

This lesson builds a foundation for adding larger numbers which is supported by the Common Core standards for second grade.

The big idea of this lesson is to have students write their own word problems to help them have a better understanding of mathematical operations, as they relate to real world scenarios.

This video lesson [1:04] will walk you through using a ruler to measure the distance between endpoints. It is 3 of 10 in the series titled "Measuring a Line Segment." Students can answer review questions when finished....

This video lesson [2:15] will walk you through using a ruler to measure the distance between endpoints. It is 2 of 10 in the series titled "Measuring a Line Segment." Students can take a short review quiz when finished....

In this lesson, students compare/contrast two versions of "The Three Little Pigs" including the traditional from the pigs' point of view and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith version as told from...

This lesson plan for grades 3-5 uses a team activity to focus on locating misspelled words on the Word Wall and spelling them correctly.

Have your students practice writing directions, then listening to and comprehend those directions with this lesson plan.

Are there repeating patterns in number counting? Recording skip counts may help reveal patterns that can be used in solving later math problems.

What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that students will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.