Students explore tempo.  In this rhythm beginnings lesson, students differentiate between steady and unsteady beats.  Students clap a variety of tempo and then move to the tempo of a song. 

Second graders explore Louis Armstrong's music. In this language arts lesson, 2nd graders research different resources so that they can write a report on Louis Armstrong and his music. Additionally, students create illustrations of Louis...

Students identify time signatures, the down beat, and begin to understand conducting patterns. In this meter patterns lesson, students identify the signs for 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 and play an excerpt from a song. Students use tennis balls to...

Students play percussion instruments that have been divided into four groups and perform to 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm'. In this percussion performance lesson, students identify percussion instruments divided into four categories....

Students create a puff mobile. For this design lesson, students use a variety of resources to design and create a puff mobile. They work in teams to write directions for how to build it and test their mobiles. 

Students discover idioms. In this inferencing lesson, students identify idioms from passages and infer meanings of unknown idioms using prior knowledge and experience.  Students write sentences using newly learned idioms. 

Students create purses for students to collect classroom Valentine's or treats in. In this Valentine's Day instructional activity, students create valentines purses out of the given materials to collect their valentine messages in.

Young scholars incorporate knowledge box into their classroom activities. For this technology integration lesson, students fill out a graphic organizer using Glossopedia to analyze a new subject.

Students explore a variety of math concepts. In this integrating technology lesson, students visit online webtools such as Max's Math Adventure, I Know That Math, Hands on Banking, and more.  A description of each website is provided.

In this English grammar worksheet, students understand the differences between the usage of the phrases "amount of," quantity of," and "number of."  Students read the definition of each and the given examples before taking the...

In this English grammar instructional activity, students understand the differences between the usage of the words "principal" and "principle."  Students read the definition of each and the given examples before taking the...

For this adjectives worksheet, students pick out nouns that adjectives modify, circle nouns, underline adjectives, write sentences, and more. Students complete 6 activities.

In this using a thesaurus worksheet, students read a sentence with a word underlined. Students use a thesaurus to change the underlined word to a stronger or more interesting synonym. There are 5 sentences.

In this four operations of whole numbers activity, students complete word problems containing all four operations of whole numbers. Students complete 20 problems.

Students create characters from a book. In this Language arts lesson plan, the students act out the story by role playing.  The students learn how to articulate correctly, by working together to arrive at the same...

Second graders define the word pattern and other related vocabulary. They create a pattern independently. Students recognize and extend patterns. They explain how repeated patterns are made. Students explore several patterns on a...

In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 29 fill in the blank questions that require them to use forms of "to be" appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

First graders identify a map, symbols on a map, and locate places on a map. Finally, they construct a map

In this Halloween activity learning exercise, students study the Halloween images in each box and then circle the correct plural form for each noun. Students complete 6 plural noun examples.

In this Halloween activity instructional activity, learners use their language skills to solve 14 rhyme riddles that are related to Halloween.

Students research the movie production occupation and careers in the industry. In this movie careers and effects lesson, students watch a video about special effects used in movies and scale. Students draw a building to a specific scale...

In this Halloween worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with words matching Halloween pictures and then label the pictures with the number of sentence it goes with. Students complete 2 activities.

Students learn Spanish vocabulary with visuals and hands-on activities.

Students practice the Spanish vocabulary for greetings, classroom commands and body parts. They demonstrate the use of Spanish vocabulary to identify colors.