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Gender Bias in Advertising
Young scholars view different paintings and discuss different advertisements that display gender bias, and redesign an advertisement found in a magazine, removing at least five aspects of the gender bias they find.
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Spider Anatomy Lesson: Is It a Spider?
Learners review information on a website which shows different types of spiders. They sort images of spiders from other insects. They create their own spider out of materials and share them with their classmates.
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Map your Schoolyard
Students practice their mapping skills by creating an accurate map of their schoolyard using an aerial photo from the National Map web site. Students include legends, a scale, and a north arrow on their maps.
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Birthday Soup
Learners recognize their birthday and how it is written. For this lesson, students read a poem about birthdays. Learners create a soup bowl that has their birthday month, day and year in it.
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Genetics Mendelian
Students explore genetic terms, the Law of Dominance and the contributions of Gregor Mendel. After discussing Mendel's lab and his pea plants students observe examples of a phenotype chart. Afterward, they conduct their own lab to...
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Commas
In this commas worksheet, students read sentences and circle the commas and insert commas into sentences that need them. Students complete 12 questions.
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Who I Am Collage
Students create a collage about themselves and their interests by using magazines and pictures. In this who I am lesson plan, students present their collage orally to their classmates.
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Brainstorm This!
Students 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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Final Exam Review
Students review material from throughout the semester. They work together in groups to review the material. They discuss the best way to review for the exam.
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Foreign Language Initial Reading
Students match sentences and phrases to pictures in a target language. They identify the proper written form of familiar spoken phrases. Students practice labeling objects and pictures with the proper greeting, color, number or object...
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Build a book
In this build a book activity, students follow directions on how to build a book. Students use markers, tape, paper, and follow 12 directions.
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Silly Sentences
Students make sentences and then play a silly game of switching the subjects and the predicates to create hilarious new sentences.
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Easy Bird Feeder
Learners create simple, painted, themed bird feeders out of everyday items, such as paper towel rolls and small paper plates
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Storytellers: Dave Matthews Band
Students decide what the term "art" means to them. They identify artistic elements displayed by the Dave Matthews Band. They understand the relationship between music and other means of artistic expression.
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Dramatizing Fables
Students familiarize themselves with fables by listening to several of them. They define fables. They identify the moral of a specific fable. They identify characters, plot and sequence of events. They create a mask of a character in a...
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Preschool
Students experience various types of play. They determine play is the way a child learns and describe the value of play. They discover that play is a child's natural way of learning and that children test and practice new physical,...
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Learning About Maps
Students investigate the many uses and features of maps and globes and locate where they live on both. For this map lesson, student play a travel game and create their own maps to explore states, continents, countries, and islands.
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Fire Chief
Students practice locomotor movements while pretending to be "firemen" at "fire stations". In this movement lesson, students stand in hoola hoops representing their fire station. They practice 8 different locomotor movements while...
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Bee Kind Hearts
Students promote random acts of kindness. In this character education lesson, students record acts of kindness that they witness on paper hearts. Students create a chain of hearts to hang in the school.
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Atoms or Molecules?
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to examine the chemical reactions of hydrogen and oxygen atoms and then respond to 1 short answer question.
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Author Study - Mo Willems
Students listen to books written by Mo Willems each day and discuss the story elements of each. In this reading strategies lesson plan, students decide after reading through the whole series of books, what their favorite book is and...
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When the Giant Came to Town....
Students discuss various techniques artists have to show distance. They view examples, and discuss overlapping. Students create art work based on things in a city. Students tell about their artwork in casual style conversation while...
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The Sky Show
Students use lecture and research to answer the question: Why is the sky blue? students research a variety of other sky phenomena, chart their observations and participate in experiments.
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Color King-Queen Crossover
Students use color and tag to practice various locomotor skills.