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Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things
Second graders publish a class cookbook of their own recipes. They explore the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class.
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Movie Analysis
Fourth graders discuss main concept, supporting details, plot, setting, major events, problems, conflicts, and resolution in two short stories. They apply these terms to a movie of their choice. They compare analysis of movies to...
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Friends Helping Friends
Students practice effective communication skills by giving a speech on emotional health topics researched on the Internet.
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Boo-ographies
Students read biographies of famous people and create a presentation where they become the characters they have read and researched. They create tombstones for the people they have researched.
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Computer Book Report
Third graders, after watching a demo by the teacher, fills in his own sample book report card on the computer. They also enter information into a database.
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Community Map of The Giver
Students read "The Giver" after finishing the unit on inventions and inventors. Using the information in the novel, they develop a geographic map illustrating the community in the story. They identify human and physical features and...
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Legend Reading With Rain Sticks
Students study copies of the Wy'East legend. They use these as a choral reading, take a different paragraph and read them in unison. They assemble their rain sticks and use the rain sticks and percussion instruments with the reading...
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Green Building and Development
In this environment worksheet, students find the solutions to building an environmentally friendly home and they examine the long-terms costs associated with ownership.
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Collocations - Nouns
In this noun collocations learning exercise, learners select the best verb or adverb from a table to go with the nouns and complete each of the 13 sentences. This is a fill in the blank learning exercise.
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Your Amazing Brain
In these reading comprehension worksheets, 8th graders read a passage about the brain. Students then answer 5 reading comprehension questions about the text.
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Cinderella Stories - Native American Cinderella Stories
Learners examine a Native American Cinderella story. In this Cinderella lesson, students listen to and compare Rafe Martin's, The Rough Face Girl, to other Cinderella stories. They complete the associated worksheets, role play scenes...
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Exploring our World through Video
Student develop their technology skills. In this video production lesson, young scholars create a movie featuring their day-to-day lives. Students use flip video cameras to film the movie and use software editing programs to prepare it...
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No Need To Be Puzzled About Me
Fourth graders investigate acrostic poetry by researching the Internet. In this poetry writing lesson, 4th graders complete a worksheet detailing their personal activities and interests. Students view the form of an acrostic...
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Student Published Books
Fifth graders create a graphic organizer after it is modeled by the teacher. In this graphic organizer lesson, 5th graders complete a graphic organizer describing chapter 1 of a book. Graphic organizers will be revised and...
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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 instructional activity, students decide after reading through the whole series of books, what their...
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Key to Good Health: Sleep and Mental Relaxation
Students investigate the effect good sleep and rest has on the human body. In this health lesson, students discover the different stages of sleep and discuss ways they can ease their own tension through exercise or meditation....
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The Future Continuous
In this verb tenses worksheet, students read the statements and fill in the missing words with a verb in future continuous tense. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Decision-Making Model
In this decision making learning exercise, students fill out the choices, skills, cost, and more when making decisions. Students fill out 25 boxes total.
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Spanish Phrase Picture Dictionary
Students illustrate Spanish phrases. In this Spanish language development lesson, students work in pairs to illustrate phrases, then copy the phrase in Spanish and English. The class uses the illustrations to create a dictionary.
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Hearts in Motion
Learners participate in cardiovascular activities. In this physical education lesson, students are divided into groups and brainstorm activities to get their heart rate up. Learners demonstrate the activity for classmates.
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Let Me Convince You
Students discuss the purposes of persuasive speaking and writing with emphasis upon what makes them different from other kinds. They brainstorm and discuss ways to select "The Greatest American Who Ever Lived" and prepare a persuasive...
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Adding e
In this adding e learning exercise, students add the letter e to the end of words to make new words. Students add e to 20 different words.
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60-30-10
Students use ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships as they investigate the concept of how percentages are used by designers. Students decorate the same room using three different percentages of colors.
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Keynote Digital Parts of Speech
Pupils create a parts of speech digital presentation. In this parts of speech instructional activity, students create a slide show with audio, pictures, movies, and text. They combine their slides to project the entire project.