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Vietnam: Lesson 3
Students examine the Gulf of Tonkin incident and investigate the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In this Vietnam lesson, students complete discussion activities about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the approaches of Kennedy...
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Nureyev: Bringer of Light
Students examine Nureyev's artistic endeavors and achievements. In this language and art activity, students analyze modes of dance expression at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. They focus on Martha Graham and...
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Wellington Fault Field Trip
Students take a field trip to Harcourt Park in California to view the results of river erosion and an active fault line. In this science lesson plan, students go to different parts of the park to discuss the results.
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Writing Instructions
In this writing instructions worksheet, students rearrange 10 instructions for making tea, so they are in the correct sequence. Students choose a game or activity and write their own instructions to see if a friend can follow them.
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Baseball Vocabulary
Pupils review new vocabulary and verb conjugations. They are divided into two teams and simulate a game of baseball while practicing their new vocabulary. They are given the word in Spanish or English.
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A Bright Idea
Young scholars establish an understanding of electricity and then demonstate that understanding by creating a basic experiment involving a lemon battery. They reflect on the importance of electricity.
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America in Film and Fiction
Students begin the lesson by reading a book on film study. After watching the movie "Citizen Kane", they work together to identify the issues concerning the United States before World War II. As a class, they discuss how the ideas and...
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Anticipatory Set for Japanese Internment
Students simulate Japanese relocation to internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They select items to pack that are personally, sentimentally, and financially important to them. They create a Venn diagram comparing and...
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Products from Petroleum
Students examine products that are petroleum based. In this petroleum product lesson, students examine a display of petroleum based products. They discuss the products that are made from crude oil and conduct an experiment that...
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Identifying Prepositions
Seventh graders explore language arts by analyzing sentences written by their classmates. In this prepositions lesson, 7th graders read an assigned text and identify the prepositions used throughout the writing. Students listen to their...
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Past Simple and Prepositions
In this past simple and prepositions worksheet, students put prepositions into sentences, put sentences into the past simple tense, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Working With Pattern Blocks
Fourth graders use pattern blocks to complete patterns, puzzle, and area centers. In this pattern blocks lesson plan, 4th graders also demonstrate fractions and use the SMART Board with their pattern blocks.
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Snake and Sight Word Board Game
Students practice sight words. Game begins with the first student rolling a die and moving the number of spaces shown on the die. If they lands on a shaded square, he or she turns up a card and reads it aloud.
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Who's Who at Our School?
Students recognize and use language appropriately for varied contexts and purposes. Students integrate listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing for multiple purposes. Students develop and use a variety of strategies to plan,...
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The Power of One: Convergence in Scholastic Media
Pupils explore the different forms of media utilized by journalism including writing, photography, video, sound and the Internet. In this journalism lesson, students compare and contrast the ways in which information is presented between...
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Rock and Roll Play
Students practice using their motor skills with music. They are divided into two teams and rock and roll depending on the music. They may practice other motor skills in this lesson as well.
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Black Music: Its Message and Meaning
Learners develop an appreciation for modern black music from a historical, political and lyrical perspective. They examine the political and the historical surge of the civil rights movement of the 1960's and how this surge directly or...
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Life Science - Seeds
Fourth graders participate in a scientific experiment involving growing lima beans. Students plot information gathered on included charts and graphs. Students use the steps of the scientific method throughout this experiment.
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Snowflakes
Students use their listening skills in order to follow diretions to create a paper snowflake. They listen as the directions are read, use their scissors and create a snowflake using a cofffee filter. Students practice using their fine...
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Oodles of Noodles
Learners practice various locomotor skills and creative movement. They find their self space with a noodle and follow the teacher's lead. They create stories to go along with the activities and use their imagination. i.e. "We are...
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Memory Game
Students interact with different explorers and their motivations for exploration. They make a deck of memory cards. Students use 20 specific motivational factors in making their cards. They then play their game.
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Accounting: Work Sheet for a Service Business
Students explore how to complete work sheets for a service business. They enter transactions that affect the owner's equity of a proprietorship into a worksheet that reviews the business activities for the past fiscal year. They...
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Investigation 3 - Condensation Chambers
Fourth graders investigate the concept of condensation and how it is formed. They conduct an experiment and make observations of the chambers. Students record the data and then write down conclusions. The instructional activity includes...
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Newton's Laws of Motion
Sixth graders explore Newton's laws of motion with their own bodies. In this relative motion lesson students will use a wide range of materials bringing them from the concrete to the abstract on video. Students will draw inferences about...