Water on Earth comes in many different forms. Students will collaborate as a team to locate forms of water on Earth. This in-depth lesson utilizes technology, specifically QR codes, to go on a hunt for where water is located on Earth...

What do inventors have that are alike? How are they different? Why do they invent? Learning about them may inspire you to invent new technology! In this lesson, students will compare and contrast key details in two texts on the topic of...

In this direct instruction lesson, students draw sketches in their science notebooks in order to make sense of wave properties. Resources include a slideshow presentation on the properties of waves and multiple examples of student work.

In this lesson, the children will be building a physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object, such as triangles, helps it function. At the end, the children will test their gumdrop structures and the class will collectively...

In the NGSS, one of the performance expectations is for the children to develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. In the science practices, the children also must develop and use models....

Earth changes can happen quickly or slowly. The students will work in teams to stake a claim about these changes and then use texts to find evidence to prove their claims. Included in this instructional activity are video clips of the...

Empower students to recognize that they are thinkers and writers! They will collaborate on a writing piece to brainstorm, organize and publish ideas with a digital tool. This lesson highlights different website creations as examples of...

This site contains lessons using Geometer's Sketch Pad for elementary and middle school aged students.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are actively engaged in learning how formal and informal language are used in written and oral communications. Downloadable handouts are provided.

Through hands-on activities, this lesson plan will show students that a force is a push or a pull and forces cause changes in motion. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.

This hands-on lesson focuses on the land and its many different types of landforms and bodies of water. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.

In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Learners will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will read and analyze...

As a teacher jumps rope, students determine the arithmetic pattern. Printable lesson plan.

This New Zealand Problems website is an excellent resource for lesson plans in problem-solving. They are organized into the following categories: algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and logic and reasoning.

Planning is essential to financial success. In this lesson plan, students will define the word "budget" and identify the three key components associated with creating a budget, evaluate wants versus needs, and demonstrate an...

During the course of this instructional activity students learn that while people can develop rewarding friendships online, they should be cautious with online-only friends and never reveal private information without asking a parent or...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on In a Pickle and Other Funny Idioms by Marvin Terba, in which students learn how understand idioms and use them to explain the plot and to make predictions. With free login, users...

This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.

This lesson plan focuses on teaching conjunctions including activities, links to conjunction lists and online resources, and lesson plan ideas.

This site offers six fun lessons to help students learn the correct usage of adjectives and adverbs.

The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan. In it, students explore where probability can be applied to professional sports. NCTM standards are listed for this lesson plan.

This lesson plan features the Latin roots FIN = end; SED, SID, SESS = sit, be still; FER = bear, carry, yield, bring. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue....

This lesson plan features the Latin roots NAT = be born; TRACT = pull, draw; SEQU/SECU = follow. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue, and a vocabulary word...