This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing up and down poems. An example of an up and down poem is provided.

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing tongue twisters. Examples of tongue twisters are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing limerick poems. An example of a limerick poem is provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.

Contains plans for eight 50-minute lessons that use Ezra Jack Keats books to teach predicting, comparing and contrasting, and problem solving. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF...

Provided are three activities that help students develop communication skills by using creative experimentation.

Many lesson plans with ideas for teachers and students, sorted by age and by type! Wonderful for thematic approaches.

Here's a creative lesson for students to examine various haikus, and Japanese culture, then write their own haiku poem, and illustrate it using watercolors! Provides plenty of links to more information, a thorough explanation of the...

Students will look at the work of Jackson Pollock as they learn about Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting. They have the opportunity to make their own dripping paint "action" painting.

After reading "The Squiggle" by Carole Lexa Schafer, young scholars use their own creative vision and talent to turn a squiggle into a masterpiece. They use crayons to color background and details, anything that helps make their squiggle...

An Ancient Egypt website by a nationally known teacher that includes, history, creative writing by students, lesson plans, and links to other sites.

Check out these creative ways to teach young scholars about synonyms and antonyms. Features a great list of ideas for teachers to include in their lesson plans.

A lesson plan to show students' understanding of the water cycle through illustrations, and their ability to write creatively about it.

The lesson uses the story, "Brothers of the Knight," by Debbie Allen, to launch a writing lesson based on a creative solution to the problem presented in the story.

Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, students create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.

In this lesson plan, 1st graders are given a graphic of a map and are to use addition and subtraction to solve the word problem.

In this lesson plan students are to answer word problems using addition or subtraction within 20.

This lesson plan allows students to explore proportional relationships using information from robot races.

This is a complete lesson plan that has students use paper clips to measure the length of blocks.

In this lesson, 7th graders determine the expression using properties of operations.

This task asks students to find equivalent expressions by visualizing a familiar activity involving distance. The given solution shows some possible equivalent expressions, but there are many variations possible. Aligns with 6.EE.A.2.

This task requires students to recognize both "number of groups unknown" (part (a)) and "group size unknown" (part (d)) division problems in the context of a whole number divided by a unit fraction. It also addresses a common...

This activity is a basic introduction to writing simple equations. Students are given a set of numbers and will pick two numbers that add to make six. They will write an equation that shows that those two numbers add to make 6.

In this task, students will roll dice and write and solve addition equations.

This task assesses a student's ability to use the addition rule to compute a probability and to interpret a probability in context of a coffee shop. Aligns with S-CP.B.7.