A 55-page unit examines the novel, The BFG, by Roald Dahl. Six lessons pay close attention to friendship, dreams, and believing themes while analyzing interesting characters, writing creative vocabulary, smilies, metaphors, an exciting...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, the Digital Citizens teach students how to be safe, responsible, and respectful online. Includes slideshow, video, lesson plan, song and lyrics, poster, coloring book, and resources for...

What makes something start to move? What makes something stop moving or change direction? This hands-on lesson will show students that forces acting on an object have a strength and a direction that can be represented by arrows of...

A lesson plan for grades 2-4 submitted by a classroom teacher.

This is a short, fun lesson plan with a literature connection, "Miss Nelson is Missing". It uses candy bars as non-standard units for measuring objects in the classroom.

A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of First Lessons on Natural Philosophy for Children by Mary A. Swift, a nonfiction book for children.

Take a look at the mathematics involved in the story "One Grain of Rice". Included is a lesson plan, geared toward 2nd-grade math students, about place value. A link to a quiz on the story is included.

In this lesson, learners are divided into teams to use their vocabulary words in a cooperative story. Each student in the team contributes a sentence with a vocabulary word in it until all the words are included. Teams then share their...

This lesson plan asks learners grades 3-5 to use wordless picture books as a springboard to write an original story based on the pictures.

In this lesson students will practice finding the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes with right angles and the appropriate units for measuring perimeter.

In this lesson students will practice finding the area of irregular shapes with right angles and understand that there are different methods for calculating area.

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.

This site has a lesson plan that teaches about the scientific contributions of Leonardo da Vinci.

This lesson teaches the ph and gh digraphs through examples and practice.

Third graders will invent a gadget using one or more simple machines and write about it.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a boy named Morgan who loved to fish and answer questions about comprehension, comparing details, supporting details, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a...

Here are several great lesson ideas for a weather unit. The lessons cover topics in math and science including making clouds, recreating the water cycle, and making a tornado. There is also a list of weather resources for more information.

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...

Pancakes anyone? Students explore estimation and measurement by learning how to make pancakes. A hands-on lesson designed for students in grades 3-5 where students are engage in hand-on experiences involving measuring volume, converting...

In this lesson for grades 3-5, students act out verb and adverb phrases while their teams try to guess the phrases.

This lesson focuses on the correct usage of the words Lie or Lay and Sit or Set and an easy mnemonic technique to help them remember when to use each.

This lesson provides class practice learning the defintions for their vocabulary words. Students are divided into two teams, each team is uses a fly swatter to slap the definition or the word whichever is not given.

In this lesson, young scholars are divided into two or three teams; one person from each team goes to the board, the teacher says one of the spelling words, and the team members write the word spelled correctly while trying to beat the...

At this site from KinderArt students will learn about the Book of the Dead and its importance to Ancient Egyptian culture by creating their own Book of the Dead using colored pencils and scroll paper.