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Art and Writing
Students examine the writing process by describing a piece of art. In this art analysis lesson, students examine a painting in a museum and write a story describing the painting to someone who has never seen it before. Students create...
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Preparing to Write
Students practice writing techniques by creating a draft of a story. In this creative writing lesson, students discuss organizational techniques writers use to plan out a story they wish to write. Students have the option to write...
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Exploring Diversity: What We Share and How We Differ
Students discuss the amount of diversity at their school. They examine a culture other than their own and share it with their classmates. They discuss the importance of diversity to end the instructional activity.
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Different Ways We Celebrate
Young scholars examine a variety of ways that families celebrate winter holidays. They complete a graphic organizer comparing Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and write a five-sentence paragraph about one of the holidays discussed. ...
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My Community
First graders design a Powerpoint presentation to reflect information about their community. In this community lesson, 1st graders create slides to explain the weather, geography and other information about the city.
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Paper Bag Book Report
Students read books and write a unique kind of book report. For this literature lesson, students use paper bags to construct projects about the books they read. Students present their projects to the class.
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A Halloween Counting Book
In this Halloween counting worksheet, students cut out and staple pages together to create a counting book of Halloween art. Each page has a different Halloween icon such as a witch, spiders and jack-o-lanterns.
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Using and Paying for Electricity: Talking About Your Bill
Students practice using vocabulary associated with an electric bill. They conjugate verbs into the different tenses. They participate in a role-play in which they practice pronouncing the words.
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What Do Salt Trucks Do?
Young scholars predict what will happen to ice when salt is put on it. They make observations and discuss what actually happened to the ice. They relate their experiment to the salt trucks they see on the street.
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Weather -- Snowmen in May
Students are read the story "Snowballs" and discuss what the conditions must be for it to snow. They make snowmen out of snow when it snows outside. They discover what happens to their snowmen when they take them inside.
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Senses -- The Touching Game
Students practice making educated guesses about objects in their hands. They guess what the object is without looking at it and choose a word that describes it. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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Travel the Amazon Game
In this Travel the Amazon Game worksheet, students play a game in which they collect Amazon animal cards. There is a game board, game tokens, game cards and a spinner to print off for the game.
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Polite, Neutral, or Rude Language 1
In this types of language worksheet, students decide which type of language is most likely to be used in a situation. Students choose between polite, neutral, and rude language for 4 situations.
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Let's Party!
First graders identify similarities/differences of celebrations and list ways to celebrate. They investigate celebrations from around the world.
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Compare and Contrast Culture
Fifth graders compare and contrast the cultures of American culture with that of the other cultures of North America. Using traditional and Internet research, 5th graders gather data on one element of culture for comparison. Data...
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Geotagging in school
Students create a digital photo map of the world. In this digital photo map lesson plan, students pick topics such as the Olympics, natural disasters, or trip planning and create a photo map on the computer.
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Maori Stick Game
Students explore Maori culture in the New Zealand area and play the Maori Stick Game.
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Word Picture - Communicating Visually
Students examine how words and visual images are used to influence people. They choose a word to illustrate using both lettering and visual images. They present their work and it is critiqued by a peer review.
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Practice Problems: Correlation and Linear Regression
In this correlation and linear regression worksheet, learners examine data to determine the statistic mean. They compute the percent of the variability. This three-page worksheet contains 16 problems. Answers provided.
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World Climate Growing Zones
Students create a map showing where crops would be grown around the world. In this crops lesson plan, students show how the world climate would produce different parts of the world at different times. Students fill out worksheets.
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How You Use Credit Cards Should Determine How You Choose Them
Students explore the concept of credit cards. In this credit cards lesson, students read an article about credit card spending. Students discuss different ways in which people use credit cards. Students determine what kind of spender...
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I am, and this is what makes me special
Learners design a PowerPoint presentation using six slides that include a title, a picture and five positive attributes about the student. They include the specified pictures and describe how they relate to themselves.
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Buggy Addition
In this addition and bugs worksheet, students practice adding together certain types of bugs together and place their totals in the boxes provided. Students complete five addition math problems and then color the bugs on the worksheet...
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The Art of Growing Things
Students discuss how the Pilgrims brought seeds, from England, into the new settlements and explore the history of seed nurseries. After observing packets of seeds and their contents, students list information found on the packets and...