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Journal Writing: Daily Activities
Students use present tense verb endings by describing his/her routine daily activities, demonstrating verb endings. They listen to teacher's description, taking notes. They write their own journal entries about their own daily routines.
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Child Safety Brochure
Students explore child safety information and use this information to produce a child safety brochure. During this process, they will have a chance to gather, organize, summarize and write information about child safety.
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Animals Of The Forest
High schoolers conduct research into the words found to relate to the forests of Wisconsin. They write the words in complete sentences in the correct context. With the writing also includes the oral practice. Students also create their...
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A Turkey for Thanksgiving - Lesson #2
Second graders investigate realistic fiction, holiday celebrations, making tally charts. In this multi-disciplinary lesson, 2nd graders listen to a story about Thanksgiving and one about the Chinese New Year to develop an understanding...
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students improve speaking confidence when using difficult question forms. This lesson focuses on helping students explain how to engage in this kind of social conversation. A worksheet imbedded in this plan provides practice.
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Prefixes, Un-, Re-, and, Dis-
Third graders identify prefixes and use prefixes correctly in sentences. They edit and change sentences containing prefixes.
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100 Years...100 Movies
Young scholars watch one of the top 100 movies to view, research critical reviews and then, write their own reviews.
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Attractive Adjectives
Third graders, in a foreign language class, identify and use adjectives in sentences.
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Science Careers Want Ads
Sixth graders examine the important items that need to be included in a want ad. They create a want ad for a career in science.
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Take Only Photos and Leave Only Bubbles
Students make careful observations and record their observations. They communicate their findings with their peers and analyze data collected about a site. They determine what it means to be a looter, and feel the direct effects of...
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Masks and More Masks
Students study different cultures through their masking traditions. They experiment with a variety of mask making media. They explore the elements of 3-D to encourage creativity.
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Egyptian Mummification
Learners explore Egyptian mummification and burial practices. They conduct research on gods, goddesses, afterlife, and mummification. Students dissect and mummify a frog "pharaoh and create a tomb wall for their frog "pharaoh."
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Pilgrims in Style
Students explore the Pilgrims and their clothing. They discuss current trends in fashion and complete a Venn diagram comparing the Pilgrim attire to present day clothing and research websites regarding the Pilgrims. After researching,...
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Reading A Medicine Label
Students use the real life situation of reading a medicine bottle to increase phonemic awareness and reading comprehension as a result. The oral pronunciation of sounds is the focus of the lesson. Reteaching may be needed for some...
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Phonemic Awareness: Pronunciation of /ng/ Consonants
Students practice cononant sounds within reading passages. They articulate the /ng/ sounds and identify their placement in words. Working with a partner, they read a passage aloud and listen for correct pronunciation of sounds.
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Endangered Species Act
Students spend the duration of this lesson examining the text of the Endangered Species Act. Individually, they complete a profile to determine where they stand on the bill and read excerpts from it. Some role-play the various members...
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Completing Applications
Tenth graders determine the importance of exemplary job applications. In this job application lesson plan, 10th graders examine job applications that have been filled in poorly and those that are done well. They complete job applications...
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Can You Follow Me? Writing Instructions
Students write directions for completing everyday activities. For this writing instructions lesson students exchange their set of written directions with a partner and follow their partners directions. If the directions are...
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Conspiracy Theory: Lincoln's Assassination
Pupils determine how the Lincoln assassination impacted the United States. In this conspiracy theory instructional activity, students examine selected primary sources and chart the information they gather from the sources.
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Hitting the Roof
Students examine the state of the British housing market. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to study Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns, how to borrow money to buy homes, and what the home prices are in...
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Learners focuses on the question form and helping students gain skill while switching tenses in the question form. They improve speaking confidence when using quesion forms.
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Learning Online
Students use online tutorials. In this online learning lesson, students explore online learning websites and use tutorials to learn about a topic of their choice.
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Reading Food Labels
Students investigate the concept of phonemic awareness in order to help increase reading comprehension. The reading of food labels creates the context for the practice session. They pay particular attention to certain sounds that must be...
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Jobs
High schoolers practice their vocabulary skills. In this language arts lesson, students examine pictures and textbook questions in order to expand their vocabulary related to jobs and careers.