Eighth graders complete a variety of football-themed activities. They develop creative writing projects with a football inspiration, research and interpret football statistics and practice football skills in P.E.

Get active by dribbling a ball. Begin with a game of banana bunch and high five beanbag grab. Then, practice dribbling a ball, and identifying the part of the hand with which your active learners dribble. Finally, conclude with...

Although designed for a foods lab, the information in this resource might be just the thing for your own recipe notebook. Illustrated, step-by-step directions for making the perfect omelet, egg-citing puzzles, games, and even...

As teachers, we have a lot of patience. Our scholars, on the other hand, may need some support. Give your pupils the emotional intelligence instruction they desire with a lesson designed to teach patience through grand conversation,...

Students participate in a P.E. game that focuses on strengthening the abdominal and leg muscles using scooters. With five students acting as the "Grinches," they guard beanbags while sitting on scooters, while the rest of the students...

Students participate in a holiday P.E. tagging game involving chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills. With the taggers holding a fleece ball (snowball), they chase and tag the other students, with the tagged students becoming unfrozen by...

Teach everyone how to work together in both physical education and music activities. Parents and their children are shown a presentation that highlights the philosophy of cooperation. They apply these concepts to their physical education...

Though the walrus spends roughly one third of its time on land, it eats organisms that live on the bottom of the ocean. The first in a series of five, the lesson uses a variety of plant and animal cards to have scholars build an arctic...

A well-designed, comprehensive, and attractive slide show supports direct instruction on how sonar and echolocation work. Contained within the slides are links to interactive websites and instructions for using apps on a mobile device to...

Students practice multiplication playing a game. In this multiplication lesson plan, students pick numbers and multiply them together. Students are awarded points based on which "hive" their answer falls in. The student with the...

Your young graphers will collaboratively play their way to a better understanding of the solution set produced by the combining of inequalities. Cooperation and communication are emphasized by the teacher asking questions to guide the...

Students discuss philanthropic behavior. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students read Shel Silverstein's Hug O' War and brainstorm ways of working together.

Students participate in station activities in P.E. In this physical education lesson, students do station activities. Students start out with a warm up exercise then make their way to dance, bowling, scooters, jump rope,...

First graders investigate sounds of short and long vowels for e and o. They develop phonics skills through drill and practice sessions. They use a variety of activities that include games. This is a whole unit plan.

Students participate in a variety of cultural activities from around the world. In this multicultural instructional activity, students visit a variety of "stations", each representing a country. Students learn facts and engage in a...

Youngsters explore number patterns within a Hundreds Chart. They discover six specific patterns from six teacher-directed rules in cooperative groups and describe in words ONE of the three patterns in their Learning Logs. They prove for...

Sixth graders participate in an online, cooperative project researching trees in their local environments for use in an online knowledge game. They take digital pictures of the trees, bark, and leaves. After completing their research,...

Simulate chariots and driver and practice rounding numbers with your class. In teams of three, they race to the finish line where the teachers asks the chariot driver to round a certain number. They take turns being the driver.

Students work in pairs to play an air writing game. In this air writing lesson plan, students are given a written letter to practice. Students use their finger to write a letter in the air and their partner must try to guess what letter...

Students collaborate to play a game. In this island hopping lesson, students face obstacles and imaginary situations in which they have to problem solve in order to complete the task.

Students observe and demonstrate how to use and give positive encouragement to their teammates and opponents. They read and discuss a list of positive sayings, then during a P.E. game, students earn Incredible Encourager stars when they...

Students explore with quadrilaterals.  In this roping quadrilaterals instructional activity, students work in cooperative groups to play the game, "Question, please!" in order to identify, describe, compare and classify...

Students explore the concept of measurement. In this measurement lesson, students discuss what specific measurement tools such as an odometer measure. Students recite a measurement poem. Students make a foldable with conversion units...

Lesson 7 in this Tchoukball unit presents many forms of tournaments. This lesson will then use a modified form of a 3 v 3 tournament. It's organized to maximize practice time in preparation for the following big tournament. Players will...